The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. In spite of its well-known advantages (flexibility, quick feedbacks, adaptability and better communication), we might be uncertain whether to use this framework or follow a traditional way for the development.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? First, take a deep breath and remember that every little software company on Earth in under this threat. Answer: You're dead! No small company has ever survived competition with a large one!

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

Say you work at a SaaS company selling AI software. Blog posts by your development team explain the complexities of how the AI system works, highlight how you gather and parse training data, and list use cases befitting Fortune 500 clients. For marketers in B2B sales, the challenge increases. Image source).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. They are tasked with “getting deals done&# so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

At Qualtrics, our mission is to create the Experience Management (XM) software category. hub, with 140+ SEO-friendly articles that offer in-depth, informational coverage of sub-topics like “ net promoter score ” or “customer experience software.” G2 does something similar with their software category pages on the right-hand sidebar.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B in just 30 months.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

If you’re setting business goals – and you absolutely should be – CRMs can help you review your metrics (i.e. number of emails sent, number of meetings booked) to understand how your team is doing. How about this: CRMs can boost sales. But many other teams can get value out of a customer relationship system.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Gideon Shalwick and I have had a conversation over and over again, lamenting the lack of a truly robust software tool designed for Internet marketers to sell information online. It is the brainchild of Andy Jenkins , who with a development team have been putting the final touches on what looks like a potentially very good system.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

” After spending some time at the acquiring company, I was hired by Google and eventually was put in charge of the development team that launched AdWords. ” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software. Another success. So I thought, “I am good!”

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I spent an entire hour watching the sales video for a new product you probably have heard of, it’s called… Kajabi You can watch the video for yourself right here – What Is Kajabi? – and then sign up for a 14 day trial (the trial option may be over depending when you read this blog post). This can reduce refunds.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. In teams that follow the "pick two" agenda, which two has to be resolved via a power play. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. I couldnt see that we were managing to pick even one.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. As for web and social apps, for some platforms, you’ll want to have a special development team. View More » Jobs VP of Sales at Mashable (New York, Ne. PM OK, agree.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. If I get sales I will expand on the site. It slices, it dices.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. The services offered post-sale are not necessarily well-regarded and in the worst case may be considered “nickel and dime” – though that may be changing. It’s not cheap.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. Cody, the VP of Sales wants this lead form on the front page. The marketing team wants this video. Jonathan: Yeah, that’s right.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Between the long traditions of forum and chat software and the rapidly growing areas of social networking services, you can build a significant community online without much in the way of hardcore development. Certainly, knowing software development in general and web development specially cannot hurt in anyway.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. So we tried to craft a strategy that would give us the product development leverage we needed to serve all customers.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Read on and let me help you decide… My Money Comes From My Email List The majority of people who will read this blog post will come from my email newsletter because I sent a message about this review. The team who created PopUp Domination fixed most of the bugs, and the latest 2.0 Chances are that is how you came to read this.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

To have the future we wanted, we needed to shift away from monetizing our open-data community and toward enterprise sales. While they knew that—and that might seem weird—I did start my career as a sales development representative (SDR) selling demand generation SaaS products. How long is your sales process?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g. Now Adriana has an epiphany?: Personal authority.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell, and frankly who doesn't check out the sales podcast, where host Will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and win big business ineffective and ethical ways. Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2020

For businesses, what’s the most effective way to approach building applications and software using no-code? But many no-code tools require some knowledge of coding to get the most out of the software or app. Need to mockup a sales page for your copy? We’ll take a look in this article. You can use Carrd and Convertkit.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Every week, we bring in business experts to discuss the latest trends in marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Our guest and COO of Palo Alto Software, Noah Parsons, shares his favorite online tools to get your business up and running. Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

When you choose some software provider, services or tools to buy, you want to know what is “under the hood”, is it a proven technology, is it a sustainable, scalable and modern software solution? In this article, we unveil some points about our software development approaches. Transformify Open API.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. I am basically a one-man shop.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. But I loved reading them and so did my team. Defensibility in Software. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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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.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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