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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

This allows the studio to develop processes, well-organized development teams, and growth plans. But I recommend entrepreneurs and prospective business builders consider the Agency Builder model. So an entrepreneur forming a startup studio benefits from having experience in the industry sector they hope to serve.

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Want To Scale Effectively? Start Thinking Like A Ten Person Team When You’re Still A Solopreneur

YoungUpstarts

by Mario Peshev, author of “ 126 Steps to Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur: The Entrepreneurship Fad and the Dark Side of Going Solo “ Running a business alone is challenging, but this is usually not the end goal for beginner entrepreneurs. Software development? Is it help with marketing? Product management?

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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

View from Seed

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. Software developers like to spend time with like-minded developers.

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Don Estridge, IBM PC Father, Startup Role Model

Startup Professionals Musings

IBM had traditionally done all its own vertical technology development, so this outside vendor thing broke all the rules. He went to vendors for common hardware parts, went to outside software developers for the operating system and application software, and acted as an independent business unit. mHz, now 3.0

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Many entrepreneurs battle with their business name, mostly I believe, because they have too many ideas and are not sure what to narrow their niche down to. The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. 8- Simply my name.

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How to build an agile and scalable SaaS for long-term success

The Next Web

Here are a few pieces of advice for building well-loved software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms that have helped me and my team realize our ambitions. If you are considering developing a vertical SaaS, it is your responsibility to communicate the technology’s robust benefits in a way that’s accessible to your potential customers.

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Transcript of Increase Profits Through Specialization

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. If you’re not a software developer, maybe if you’re a designer, you’re going to also likely gravitate towards your skills. Back to Podcast.