YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

Their assembly chain approach to construction brought in a level of efficiency, cost-savings and quality that was previously unmatched. The base product is quickly deployed, cost-effective and customizable. This Levittown model is the future of payments software. The Cost Advantage is Obvious.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. First Round Capital. The Review. Plusstartup. The Review.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. Predictive analytics help determine the most effective markets for adspend, suggesting areas where the product is being well-received and those where the cost of customer acquisition is unreasonably high.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

While there are some services that are commonly outsourced, such as customer support and software engineering, there are actually hundreds of other tasks that can be effectively done by outsourcers, thereby helping to scale your business. Here are 5 outsourcing services that can have a huge impact on helping your business grow: 1.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 2, 2013

Another thing they have in common: I find most high-tech startup founders are software engineers enamored with the idea of waking late, sidling up to a coffeeshop table, pecking away at an IDE, getting into the zone for hours at a stretch, and doing what they love – coding something of their own invention. There is no easy road.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In this post, we’re sharing a build vs. buy framework to help you consider the opportunity costs and make an informed decision on whether to buy software off the shelf or build a custom solution. Gartner forecasts enterprise software spending will total almost $572 billion worldwide by 2022. The scope of the project.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. Sales are the bloodstream for most businesses, and tech startups are no exception. This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. Step 2: Choose your sales channels.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Want To Close More Sales? Building Trust In Client Relationships And The Power Of Saying “I Don’t Know” | Search Engine Journal – crowdspring.co/1CVzygR. Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/1pIoZb3. Your Minuscule In-Flight Entertainment Screen Costs $10,000 | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1A8AzNu.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. All manual operations. The rise of PQL over MQL model.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Benjamin Yee is the entrepreneur behind an innovative software, EMERGE App, that makes it easy to manage the process. It’s a user-friendly and affordable app that businesses can utilize to help increase efficiency while reducing overall costs involved. A good part of my software has built-in smarts. Tell us your story.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

For the uninitiated, Zoho introduced a CRM system that was one-tenth the price of Salesforce.com and penetrated the lower end of the market using an Indian cost structure. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Toward that end, they have created two products. Discuss.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 17, 2013

Their shipping costs will eat up any money they save. Palantir – we’ll build arcane analytics software, put the company in California, hire a bunch of new college grad engineers, many of them immigrants, hire no sales reps, and close giant deals with D.C.-based Virgin Atlantic – airlines are cool.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

I do know in looking at a little bit of your background, you're not software engineers, you didn't grow up in, in that necessarily. Todd Fisher (01:49): I was gonna say, I have a technical software engineering background. Um, you came from other professions, so I'd love to hear what led you, uh, to where we are today.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2019

There might be several scenarios where real experiments are not possible: sometimes management may be unwilling to risk short-term revenue losses by assigning sales to random customers. a sales team earning commission-based bonuses may rebel against the randomization of leads. How would you define a reasonable estimate?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

It’s Absurd That Health Care Costs Are So Confusing – crowdspring.co/1yDomRJ. Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/12gwMCO. Online Sales for Girl Scout Cookies Are Approved – crowdspring.co/1pIc88R. How to Motivate Employees in Less Than 5 Minutes – crowdspring.co/1CzhuZY. 1v6Fr0z.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project. In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. where you can leverage some internal “low cost&# time. Engineering/QA. Advertising.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our computer should be, debating cost and time-to-market tradeoffs of arcane details such as double-buffering, 24 versus 32-bits of color, alpha channels, etc. The conversation that day would become one of my professional watermarks.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

No cost, not formal strings attached. Higher cost, but great facility. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Just hired Yahoo’s VP Media Sales. Now doing 2 classes each year! Dog Patch Labs - Free workspace run by Polaris Ventures. CIC - High quality, flexible office space.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Little Indians and Big Indians At MIPS Computers , my second semiconductor company, I was the VP of Marketing and defacto head of Sales. As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. What a great idea. No, not really.

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David Teten

AUGUST 5, 2013

But they are also former software engineers and hackers, an experience that undoubtedly taught them skills in critical thinking and problem solving. Making savvy business decisions is not only about engineering, but also sales and marketing, business development, recruiting, and all the other functions of business.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If you have a friend who is a recruiter then ask them to tell you what they recommend that will not cost anything. This means considering what the opportunity cost for working on a high risk venture is relative to other things they can spend their time on.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

But if a Tipping Point could be created there it could over come the costs. Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. Between AT&T, the Financial houses and all the great local engineering schools they’re not only the best but there are a lot of them.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A recent job posting by zlien , a construction industry software company, frames the product manager’s mindset this way: Do you find yourself staring at a complex world and identifying problems to engineer away? so that the talent, the designers, engineers, analysts and data scientists, can focus on their core work.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. Immediately. 2) Hiring Inexperience.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Versatile has built out a suite of no-cost portfolio acceleration services to help its companies succeed. We determine a salary cap with the founder based on a software engineer in the closest major city. By ‘structured exit’ we mean that investors can achieve liquidity without necessitating the sale of a company.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. You're going to spend many multiples of what the domain name would have cost you to create brand recognition. Is It Sticky?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 29, 2020

29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23) He was an immigrant from Romania, a software engineer, came to the Bay Area, did Y Combinator, started a company, sold it, made connections, and became part of this ecosystem. He's an engineer as well.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

In the open-ended portion of the poll, one person indicated, "If they have $1 million in sales and have shown that people are willing to buy this thing without it even existing." Get sales, users, sign-ups -- any concrete evidence to show that you have a web idea that people want. Engineers can handle negative information.")

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

local sales, disasters, city or regional politics, concerts). When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Or maybe this article sets the ground for the sales pitch of such system.

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

Instead, I opted to send these simple tasks to someone else at the cost of $15/hour. The engineer in me would be proud to finish the project by himself! at 3:03 am To x: The point is that as a software engineer you get obsessed with irrelevant detail. I wrote up an email and the task will be done in the next day or two.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s like arguing against vertical software. How about ABAPer?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Misunderstandings cant run on too long.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

It may wind up for sale on SitePoint , or it may be relegated to the bone yard of failed software products. Outsourcing support will a) cost a good chunk of change, and b) leave you with unhappy customers. No outsourced support service can provide the level of service you need as a small software shop. at 10:09 pm [.]

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Lots of business-y, idea-type people who say they’re looking for a co-founder are, in reality, looking for what is best described as an “engineering bitch.&# Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid.

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