Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

There are a whole range of valid reasons why non-developers would want to dictate the production release schedule (Seasonal/timing issues, marketing, fulfillment concerns, documentation/training, revenue controls, legal/regulatory. It lets the customer and development team spot problems with calculations almost immediately.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. Document and share meeting minutes; writing gets the non-verbals out of the way. Managing offshore developers remotely The whole point in offshoring is to save money, right? Managing people is hard, managing developers is harder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

With all the technology available for messaging, documenting, verifying, processing, storing, and sharing data, business owners are finding out that there is no need to ever print a hard copy of anything ever again. Social Media Marketing & Promotion. All of that goes away when an employer hires remote contracted help.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The knowledge that you need 10,000 hours to master a subject, that certain trends become viral after the 412th person adopts it, or that you should make your product remarkable, is not going to help you launch. Nor will it save you a single minute during product development, or sell one more copy of your application.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

It may wind up for sale on SitePoint , or it may be relegated to the bone yard of failed software products. The Upside The flip side to all of this is what you’ve already heard on the blogs of successful product developers. Once a product hits critical mass you’ve conquered the hardest part of the equation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. YAML has a documented and “obvious” feature to deserialize into arbitrary objects. Rails allows XML documents to include YAML attributes. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation. by Patrick.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

But a more important question to which I don’t have a good answer is whether the Free/Premium strategy leads to better or worse product development. If you offer a product for free you get more users and more feedback on your product. Bonus tip: better documentation and usability count as bug fixes for software.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Worse, you may end up with a sub-par product because you simply didn’t have the resources to build what you needed. Get clear on the integration plan in your project scope and documentation. If you’re building new technology, get clear on how it will work with your existing software (if it needs to).

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. Notwithstanding examples like Plentyofish, people respond to well designed, well branded products, and that can be important in getting traction early on. Frankenstein, whose only job is to have ideas and cackle madly.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

With all these new tasks, there’s no way you can also manage the projects and client relationships and internal product development, so you’ll need a project manager or a sales person or an office manager or some kind of help, and all of those come out of your profits. None of these new tasks are fun or creative.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Here are my goals : 1) New product development in my skin care line 2) To see more women confident and happy through my business, YouTube videos, etc. We believe that *great user interface* is the next hot thing in B2B software development. 15 – Document Processes. Here’s to the future!

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