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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs. And the best startups spun out of Stanford were building components for weapon systems. Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War.

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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

NextView Ventures: You just experienced something that most developers don’t ever see: zero code base at a company. I definitely spend a lot of time on paper first, making sure I understand what I’m really building and why. IC: I definitely believe in and prefer the latter: smart principles from the beginning.

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How to Optimize SaaS Development Costs

Up and Running

In the last decade, SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a very popular model for new software product development. The largest cost component of establishing a SaaS company is product development costs. This includes the design, development, launch, and enhancement of the SaaS application. .

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6 Awesome Tools To Make Your Startup Smarter In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Startups are all the rage these days with innovative minds coming up with novel ideas and transforming them into reality. But wanting to materialize a product or service and sustaining its operations are two different things. One thing that every business definitely needs is reliable, flexible, and easily scalable web hosting.

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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Gust

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Even when your startup is a one-man show and lots of fun, a “business” needs some discipline and controls to keep it from being defined as a hobby by investors, and assure some financial return. Product development process.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Caesar Sustainability

View from Seed

One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. I would definitely recommend it to any and everyone! This uncertainty can make it challenging to operate as a startup, but has built in great flexibility into our business at its core. .

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Realistic Strategies For Funding Product Development

Startup Professionals Musings

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Expanding the product line.