mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. We make sure they're damn good and have experience not only as developers, but also dealing with customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Being in front of your customer where and when they are ready to make a purchase has never been more important. . The good news for startups and other businesses with limited funds (or, who have financially savvy owners) is that you don’t (necessarily) need to hire an expensive team of software developers to create an app.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2016

Techtonic Academy provides underprivileged youth, minorities, women, and veterans both technical training and mentorship to become entry-level software engineers and pursue a career in the technology field. After about six months, graduating apprentices are qualified junior developers, ready to work.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

They’re getting their first customers with minimal technology, and often no code at all. They’re jumping right in to serve customers in any way possible – heading right for their first paying customers. They’re jumping right in to serve customers in any way possible – heading right for their first paying customers.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 5, 2018

It really started as an in-house software solution to address the stock woes that I had with my custom t-shirt printing business. Spreadsheets sort of worked for a while but it didn’t scale with my t-shirt business and it certainly didn’t help me to invoice my customers on time or avoid an overstocked situation.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools. We are focusing on four primary principals from DDD: an emphasis on business value, cross-functional collaboration and a focus on the big picture, all while employing software best practices.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

We wanted customers to know where we specialized, so leather had to be part of the title. Our customers relate with personable, attentive customer service, and although descriptive and accurate, our dot com name hasn’t fit that relationship very well. 11- Inspired by the term software development kit.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect. Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But the rest of the management team really skeptical.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2013

To a small app developer like Gliffy , that means waves of curious customers will soon be searching the Office App Store for new tools. ‘We were thinking, is there any other software package that is larger, worldwide? But Gliffy is hoping for a surge of new customers and downloads as Microsoft opens the Office Store.

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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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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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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). Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on. Customer Support. Sure Payroll is a good service.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Software developers are a hot commodity right now, and many of them know it, so theyre on the lookout for really stellar business people to partner with, not some run-of-the-mill, me-too idea having, 10k foot synergizer without any concrete sales prospects, marketing ability, or product experience. Jul 24, 2010 Cristian Pascu said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You hopefully have at least a couple of real customers who will not be happy if something fundamental breaks and testing everything vital manually each time is becoming inefficient. Instead of just doing a few manual tests to verify your work, you find that it’s important to add some automated tests?—?at

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You hopefully have at least a couple of real customers who will not be happy if something fundamental breaks and testing everything vital manually each time is becoming inefficient. Instead of just doing a few manual tests to verify your work, you find that it’s important to add some automated tests?—?at

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Product management is fundamentally about thinking on your feet, staying one step ahead of your competitors, and being able to project yourself into the minds of your colleagues and your customers. Commit to observing and interacting with your customers on a weekly, if not daily basis. there are many avenues.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? Make sure you are continuously looking at the business and customers. Get in front of customers as often as you can. How can we address this risk? Accounting?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2013

So much of the focus was on how to produce usable software developers inside the four walls of a classroom. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?". Answer: All self-taught.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

And the kicker is that support burden actually worsens with time because your customer base grows. After 1 month you have 100 customers with potential problems, after a year, 1,200. What you find is that ongoing development, as with any legacy system, is much slower than green field development.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Now Back to Software Let’s translate this to being a software developer / entrepreneur. MY EXAMPLE Let’s translate this to being a software developer / entrepreneur. February 3rd, 2010 | Becoming a Better Developer , Software Development Building your startup?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Nudge is a fast pace, but still insightful with real world examples that you can apply her recent issue, talked about the, the idea of getting your customers, your prospects, in the habit of buying from you, or listening to you or following you. You have to balance that because without restaurants you kinda ha not gonna have customers.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well. The tools which you find restrictive I consider a huge timesaver (which paying customers tend to appreciate)… they allow me to rapidly prototype and get solutions to customers. Look what happened to Gawker. Sjoerd Franken.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

As someone who asked this question myself at one point, and someone who started one of the many websites specifically to address this issue, please pardon me and allow me to be blunt by translating this into engineer speak. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?"

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Or if prototype is good enough to sell, sell it to customers.

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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. Other associated risks.

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