Software By Rob

JULY 31, 2009

Hierarchy of the Successful Independent Software Developer – Freelancer -> Consultant -> MicroISV -> Micropreneur. Hierarchy of the Successful Independent Software Developer – Freelancer -> Consultant -> MicroISV -> Micropreneur. The Funniest Amazon Reviews Ever – 1,255 of them.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 28, 2009

October 28th, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews , Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. You can download the MP3 here. You can find it here. Check out my book Like this post?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? The highlight of the day was that I finally had the pleasure of meeting Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror and Stack Overflow. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This can be hard news to accept, and its one of the major reasons not to split-test. The goal is to have split-testing be a continuous part of our development process, so much so that it is considered a completely routine part of developing a new feature. Code To make split-testing pervasive, it has to be incredibly easy.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing WordPress Headaches with Closing HTML Tag – Any Ideas?

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Or from selling your application to open-sourcing it? Development always takes longer than you think, you always have more bugs than you’d like, your mailing list is never as large as you want, and on and on. Or from iPhone to desktop? How about switching from building a product to providing services?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?". The good news: There are good answers to these questions! How can I answer this question?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In This number is heavily dependant on the productivity of your sales teams.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Tech12, an Israeli news publication, embarked on a special project to highlight the 32 Israeli startups that reached a Centaur status. The term ‘Centaur’, coined by venture capital firm Bessemer, indicates companies that achieved $100M in annual recurring revenue (ARR). Scaling to $100 Million from Bessemer Venture Partners.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I assume you have some new take on what youre doing - otherwise you wouldnt be doing it. The main takeaway of the post is that you almost always need feedback to execute new approaches properly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Start Here If You’re New. Mostly, I sell software. Don’t skip this post because you’re not a Rails developer. ” What does “execute arbitrary code” mean?

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! This year, American online retail sales are projected to reach $224.2 It is the new wave of commerce and, depending on the industry, ecommerce represents either an opportunity for big profit or a death knell for the brick-and-mortar business. Print Story.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

You’ve paid your dues. Develop your brand. Create a sales plan. Helping clients with software and/or hardware issues. Yet they still need to create a marketing plan, develop strategies, and execute. Develop Your Brand Identity. You’ve put in the hours. Choose your niche. Define your services.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Over the years, we’ve seen enough startups come and go (and rebrand and merge) to fill a volume with how and how not to develop and execute a logo for a web company.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

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The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Github – repository for your source code plus task lists and collaboration with your developers. Streak – simple CRM plugin for gmail to manage and share your sales leads. for the developing world). Docracy – open source legal documents. Product Hunt – daily new products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I don't really have any social media, or read a lot of the news frankly because I feel like a lot of it is overblown and a lot of it is just wrong and there's very little accountability as to who is right about what, and a lot of it seems to be just over blowing. I felt like the news was just moving on from one crisis to the next.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

WHATS HOT: EVENTS NEWS LEARN CAREER VIDEOS ESPAÑOL. After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. female founders.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

They were developed by Cormac Kinney in the mid-1990s to try to allow traders to beat financial markets. Here’s how Aura.org put it : Visual Attention algorithms, where computer software “calculates” the visibility of the different elements within the image, are often sold as a cheaper alternative. Image source ).

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Facts don’t change minds – true for both sales and customers. 60-80% open rates and click through rates. buy right from Facebook news feed. Offline sale – typically. Long sales cycle – 18 months or more. How to do shorten a long sales process? Knowledge Repo – open sourced.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 7, 2005

As you know, I am enamored by frictionless sales. Frictionless sales means reducing the pain for customers to adopt and use a service/product and consequently reducing the cost of sales and marketing to get a customer and generate revenue. Free software grows revenue opportunities.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I don’t know any developers. These are the geniuses clogging up Craigslist’s “Computer Gigs&# with ads saying stuff like “Need iPhone Developer: Compensation: 30% of profits (when we get them)&# or “Ruby on Rails ROCKSTAR needed: $20/hr&# [link] Nils Noack Definitely a good read! I need money for the servers.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Applicaster’s solutions are adopted by a constantly growing number of world leading content owners, format developers, broadcasters, cable companies, and MNOs. Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. Betterview - Company Website. CellBuddy - Company Website.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. Asana you mentioned.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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