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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

He gossips with the office manager who tells 3 software developers. Even if they feel it gives them some less productive time it will pay huge dividends down the line in human connectedness. When you’ve got offshore people you end up needing longer specs and less changes so it begins to feel like waterfall development.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

Joris Poort , Founder and CEO, Rescale (Software platform and hardware infrastructure to perform scientific and engineering simulations; undisclosed capital raised, per CrunchBase): We spent two and a half years writing custom software to run large-scale simulations on Boeing’s data centers.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

.” —  Allen Darnell , CTO, Silver Car Allen Darnell A veteran CTO will have a well-established network and will leverage that network as they are assisting you in building your team of software professionals. Some of my most satisfying projects are when we make improvements in, say, developer productivity that also pay a “security dividend”.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. I was told they werent sure, because all of their engineers were currently busy refactoring. Nobody likes working with legacy code, but even the best engineers constantly add to the worlds store of legacy code. Share what you learn.

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

We started with a simple wiki page with a few bullet points of things that new engineers had tripped over recently. In response to Five Whys that noticed that not all new engineers were reading the list, we expanded it into a new engineer curriculum. We never set out to build a world-class engineering-training process.

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Software Startup Myths Debunked

www.singlefounder.com

Joel of Fog Creek says: “We didn’t start with a particular product in mind: our goal was simply to build the kind of software company where we would want to work, one in which programmers and software developers are the stars and everything else serves only to make them productive and happy.&#

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. Research the cost of advertising your product.