Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

3- E-commerce Photo Credit: Carter Seuthe With the launch of 5G internet, I think eCommerce will boom in 2023. 8- Property management Photo Credit: Jaden Oh Property management is a good way to make money, especially if you already know how to run a business or are good at making software for property management.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo. Visibility-fail.

Software Review 261

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

billion acquisition of Sweden-based software company Mojang, the developer behind the popular building game ““Minecraft”, which has sold over 100 million copies since its release in 2009, illustrates the degree to which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s long-term vision for Microsoft is taking root at that company. Microsoft’s $2.5

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

billion people living on Earth, we technically have enough food – it is just not equally distributed (which by no means is an easy problem to solve). Nithya, together with a small team, developed an Internet-connected temperature sensor which travels with the vaccine fridge through the cold chain. Today, with about 7.2

Bangladesh 133

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

You’re not going to be able to blanket the entire Internet with your message – nor should you want to. Back in 2009, Cloudera placed news of its Distribution for Hadoop launch in tech blogs and reputable news sources , and reached 1.5 Now, the startup and its software solutions are both household names.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In Every part of our organization has members of the team that are distributed all over the world. Focus on the East.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

BROADCOM BUYS ISRAELI SECURITY SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SC SQUARE. Broadcom is acquiring an expert team of engineers focused on security&# – BroadcomConsumer device chip maker Broadcom has acquired Tel Aviv-based security software maker SC Square for $42 million. “With SC Square Ltd., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

Africa 75

Africa Benin Seychelles Nigeria 75

A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

How valuable would it be if we knew a forced ranking of every software developer in the world? Just need to graph out the distribution curve of feedback and grade people according to a standard deviation. Why doesn’t a similar ranking system exist for VCs, founders, sales reps, software developers, or admin assistants.

Software Review 60

Software Review Software Developers Software Development Search 60

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO. I’ve been married for 22 years now and when I had my first company I just assumed I would run that company for the rest of my life and keep doing software development. How will mobile change.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. Providing a legitimate alternative: A user resorting to using ad-blocking software cannot be blamed – most often he simply has no other choice. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

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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! Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. I build apps all the time, how hard could it be to launch a product? Congratulations!

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Software Review Software Product Salary 42

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

miiCard– which stands for “My Internet Identity”– is an identify verification service using your email address, your mobile phone, and your online banking account to prove you are actually you. miiCard is like flashing your driver’s license or passport on the internet.

Small Business 75

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago. Austin is good at software, Dallas is good at retail, Houston is good at oil & gas, and San Antonio is good at cybersecurity (just for a few examples).

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 97

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Repeatable and Scalable Sales Model In Customer Development your goal is not to avoid spending money but to preserve your cash as you search for a repeatable and scalable sales model and then spend like there is no tomorrow when you find one. This is the most important sentence in this post and worth deconstructing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. How did Internet Explorer get to be so bad (relative to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox)? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Quora – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

What Hasn’t Changed: The Internet Keeps Getting Bigger. How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Central African Republic Design 100

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members. They tested this updated MVP with refugees and made some surprising discoveries.

Silicon Valley 120

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members. They tested this updated MVP with refugees and made some surprising discoveries.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2012

The Facebook distribution dilemma – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Why It’s Good that the Internet Is Changing Our Brains – [link]. Segments of One: Smarter Targeting for Your Customers – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. at Tableau Software. Web Developer. Get the real smart home with Think Automatic’s learning and sensing software. Daily email digest. Featured Jobs. at Avvo, Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." How long does the software sit un-deployed? Software is generally always getting better or getting worse. How fast do they iterate? Does it require weeks of QA?

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. In the worst case, attackers root every unpatched Rails app on the Internet. Software security does, in general, suck. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation.

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Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

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. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? The only problem is that a single development license for their software is more expensive than our entire product. Wait, did I read that right?

Software Review 31

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? I am not a developer.

Continuous Deployment 123

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean 123

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. But notice how many hypotheses are baked into this supposedly simple scenario: we believe we have already solved the distribution problem for our product (or else how could customers try it?).

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

And the way that effort was coordinated, because there were no cell phones, there was no internet at the time, you'd go down the building with concern faces and somebody would say, Hey, I'll organize security. Meaning events, magazines, blogs, they read, so you could distribute your content there. So that is the third thing.

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Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 54

Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

In retrospect, it seems totally natural that Larry Ellison transformed Software Development Labs from a consulting business into a software company called Oracle. Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet. How was that possible?

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster.

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Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment 102

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

We might be a ways away from the reality of a Chief Engineer or Product Director role commonly in software development, but ultimately it's going to be a matter of getting the culture right so that people stick around long enough to develop not only the tactical skills, but also the honed instincts and senses.

San Francisco 166

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. Demographic diversity is an indicator.

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