Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". We're going to get reviews on blogs.".

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. These costs are largely fixed.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Several factors are driving this growth: a skills shortage in specific fields and industries, low entry costs, and the flexibility of independent contractors. Software Development and Programming. Freelancing as a software developer or a freelance programmer can be lucrative. Bottom line.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I monetize the site with Google AdSense and with a Grammarly affiliate program. Launching a recipe website can cost as little as $150 if you can utilize your phone as a camera to start. The most expensive cost right off the bat is the time commitment when compared to the minimum capital and operational cost. Virtina ! #16-

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Although help comes in the form of diligent teams and reliable investors, in order to come at par with established names, a startup needs to rope in useful tools and resources which can standardize things. It lets you manage campaigns and visualize marketing programs. It lets you track and share the ROI of key campaigns.

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Transformify

JUNE 29, 2021

Machine learning is one step further towards revolutionizing Talent Acquisition programs. Needless to say, '' bad hires' come at a cost and there is hardly any organization across the globe that has not been hurt by high headcount turnover / low productivity ratio. Very unlikely.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

It requires strong leadership that inspires change and experimentation, as well as frequent reviews of any obstacles in order to minimize risk efficiently. Is this a software development project? Cloud call centers are more flexible, agile and cost-efficient than traditional models. How Cloud Call Centers Can Help.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

That’s why Roger Smith puts the focus of the CTO on programming for the earliest stage. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. These questions are critical background for any developer at any level. How much will it cost to build what we need to build?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? How can we phase development to balance cost, features, risk, etc? How do we balance concerns vs. cost? How will we address these without significant cost?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

When I got back to the office, I reviewed some of the other accounts that we were currently working with, and I noticed some patterns emerge. We weren’t winning or losing business to other developers, rather it generally came down to three options: Buy – the client saw the value in our platform and they subscribed to our cloud.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Buyers became more critical due to a reduction in reosurces and as a result the entire process started to involve more people ultimately taking longer to close. MQL cost significantly increased. With Opsfleet, the situation was critical as they provide a commodity service (software development) and have signifcant competition.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2012

The relatively low cost of starting a tech business today has made this choice more enticing than ever. When Bob Herman founded Tropolis Group in 2010, he decided to finance with credit cards so he could take advantage of a cash-back rewards program and use the bounty to buy supplies for the business.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

The trends shifting in the eLearning sector due to the influence of COVID 19 on schools and colleges across the United States and the world are shifting to a hybridized-online and in-person format. 16- Rise of citizen developers. One of the benefits of the citizen developer movement is that it solves the developer shortage problem.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. It is going to cost a lot of money just to get the initial batch of products to test the market and would definitely require external funding. Government programs. Both of which are expensive and time-consuming.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Wave after wave of hardware, software, biotech and cleantech products have emerged from what has become “ground zero” of entrepreneurial and startup culture. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A chatbot (or bot) is a piece of automated software that engages in a conversation with people. Chatbots are programmed to understand basic questions, provide answers, and execute various tasks. You Get Their Facebook ID: These tend to last forever, where as business emails expire on average 4% / month due to people changing jobs, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

When I want to know about some concurrency issues between services in his cluster, he doesnt blink an eye when I suggest we get the source code and take a look. Hes just as comfortable writing code as racking servers, debugging windows drivers, or devising new interview questions. He throws off volumes of code, and it works.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

It is not surprising that the countries with low unemployment rates have adopted programs encouraging continuous education, industry diversification, and skills development. Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our code pushes take another six minutes. Since these two steps are pipelined that means at peak we’re pushing a new revision of the code to the website every nine minutes. On average we deploy new code fifty times a day. Code reviews and pairing Great practices. That’s 6 deploys an hour.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. When a developer wants to check-in code, this is a very scary moment.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. The goals of a venture capitalist are to maximize the return on investments that pan out and minimize the costs of investments that will not. The software I sell has made up less than 5% of total revenue in the past 12 months.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

How should one go about pricing their software product? Misfit Entrepreneurs | Dan Pallotta-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Tips for low cost startup marketing … Low Hanging Fruit | Wade Foster – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? Quora – [link]. Quora – [link].

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. But attitude. You either have it, or you don’t.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. Not all software developers are suited to the role of startup CTO.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Many people have a presumption that it is difficult to start an online business due to lack of money. However, for a limited liability corporation, you are not personally liable but the cost of registering one is higher than the former. Open source software or clone script is also available.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 7, 2018

So instead of reviewing products, we are reviewing the customer’s preferences – how they want to be communicated to, how their lives would be made easier by a solution or service, what experience and journey they want to have and by understanding their last action, knowing what they may want next.”.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2020

T – Time-bound: Is it Time-based, Time/cost-effective, timely, and time-sensitive? A motivation program helps you improve team involvement. I adjust the shot and advance as necessary, or I make a difficult choice due to reality. A – Achievable: Is it agreed, time-bound with efficient resources? .

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

There was ZERO cost for attendees because the costs were covered by sponsors (Thank you sponsors!). CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. President of The Tech Museum.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To get FDA clearance, Apple reportedly submitted two studies to the FDA (so far none of the data has been published or peer reviewed). Its purpose is to make sure that drugs, devices, diagnostics, and software products don’t harm thousands or even millions of people so the FDA wants a process to make sure they get it right.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

So in this age of uncertainty how should someone react who simply wants to collect a few greenbacks in exchange for their brilliant programming acumen? No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. Right now companies are cutting costs and letting go of their $125/hour development shop.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

5 Startup Costs You Might Not Have Thought About – [link]. 5 Startup Costs You Might Not Have Thought About – [link]. Glaser-Harvard Business Review – [link]. On Facebook, Sharing Can Come at a Cost | NYT – [link]. Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Answer: [link].

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Youll estimate time and cost better. Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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