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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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How the Raspberry Pi could help your startup to develop a custom IT solution?

The Startup Magazine

The Raspberry Pi includes 26 GPIO Pins which are useful for embedded projects and interfacing software. Due to the number of GPIO pins given, it supports multiple sensors at a time including various displays and modules. Supporting all types of codes. What made the board popular is the fact that it supports all types of code.

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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

Instead of asking three questions as we did with Bala, we’re going to take a very deep dive into a critical topic: code quality. What follows below are Sin-Mei’s words on how she (and Shippo) define code quality. How do you define code quality? or “What does code quality mean to you?” Functional quality.

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How Software Developers Can Be Set Up For Failure

YoungUpstarts

The outright and abject failure of a software development project is a surprisingly common occurrence, and the reasons for a specific project’s failure tend to revolve around three easily avoidable mistakes. Unreasonable Time Restrictions and Budgetary Limitations. Unreasonable Time Restrictions and Budgetary Limitations.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. Me : Product definition, use cases, feature list, wireframes, comps, really whatever you have. what format would you and the developer want that in? Founder : Ummm. what do you mean? Founder : Umm.

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Can You Replace Lawyers With Software?

The Startup Magazine

A business runs on diligence, passion, and creativity — but it also needs a whole lot of legal help. Thus, as with many other expensive aspects of starting a business, many entrepreneurs like you are turning to software. More realistically, artificial intelligence and computer software will assist lawyers, not replace them entirely.

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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

Genuine VC

When Chad Pytel introduced me to Bryan Helmkamp , CEO/Co-founder of Code Climate , I knew that I had to pay attention. So I chatted with Bryan about Code Climate’s service, which provides automated code review (originally Ruby, but also JavaScript and now PHP). I can definitely see it being pretty big.” “I