SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning?

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. What are the terms of their relationship with the founder?

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. It can also lead to a software team that looks ill-equipped.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review Architecture 260

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2020

Strohl, CPA and founder of Protax Consulting, a firm that offers tax services to expatriate Americans , “everyone wants to live someplace warm and beautiful.” Namely, you should never associate asset value with business value. With a properly valued company, retirement to that tropical paradise could be just around the corner!

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Software developers like to spend time with like-minded developers. As a founder, if you have a power alley in a specific functional role or the startup itself will strike a chord with people in that functional specialty, look to add prominent thinkers (especially local ones) in that space to the affinity list.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Product naming is hard. Too many factors come into play when looking for a name and it’s almost impossible to decide on the right name once you’ve stared at the same list for a week straight. As an aside, his application launched last week and you can find it at [link] or in the iPhone app store under the name “QuickReader.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

by Gaurav Gupta , Founder of Square Boat. Although help comes in the form of diligent teams and reliable investors, in order to come at par with established names, a startup needs to rope in useful tools and resources which can standardize things. You see how this can benefit, don’t you!

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Software Review Startup Azure SEO 113

SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. Don''t be swayed by big name firms or other kinds of name dropping. So here are some thoughts on selecting the right firm.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 11, 2018

Time and time again, I hear how hard of a time startups are having recruiting, especially for software developers. When I was a startup founder, I had this same issue. That's when I had a conversation with Max Ventilla, the founder of AltSchool, who at the time was running Aardvark. The team already had a lead on board.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Henry Sy, the guy behind the world-famous SM Malls, is a household name in the Philippines. He has also been named CEO of the Shark Group, a brand consultancy firm. Forbes, Shopify, and Gillette are among the clients who have learned how FUBU developed a successful global brand. 5- WhatsApp founders. 2- Henry Sy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Do you really need that full-time assistant, regular bookkeeper, and big-name attorney? For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. Start simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. Start simple.

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eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net 196

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

insert founder number] of the founders dropped out of [insert Ivy League school]. We wish we were the founders, experiencing this testosterone-fueled melodrama of success. That was before we even discussed the required software development. Why We Are In Love With Startups? The infatuation is real.

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Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 107

ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. With Opsfleet, the situation was critical as they provide a commodity service (software development) and have signifcant competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Do you really need that full-time assistant, regular bookkeeper, and big-name attorney? For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 16, 2020

A Chief Technology Officer, as the name suggests, plays a key role in pivotal technology implementations in the organization and ensures that technology adequately addresses company challenges. The same person can be a developer and a technical manager, while a non-technical founder is more likely to be accountable for marketing.

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The Next Web

JUNE 26, 2013

While financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, leading the round was Roberto Bonanzinga from Balderton Capital, with Christoph Janz from Point Nine Capital named as another “major investor”. So what happens to StorageRoom and its customers?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2015

by Tal Segalov, CTO & co-founder of Mintigo. So how do you become a leader in social commerce without household name attached to your brand? Tal Segalov, CTO & co-founder of Mintigo brings more than 15 years of experience in software development.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. Start simple.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

We wish we were the founders, experiencing this testosterone-fueled melodrama of success. It’s one of the main reasons startup founders often shy away from reasonable SEO pricing models, opting instead for the riskier, cheap, outsourced route or the DIY approach —which are both fraught with their own perils.

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Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 78

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” I would think that with a name like Smucker’s it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech.

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Naming Technical Review Product Product Name 40

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

He and Bill Lowe somehow managed to convince then CEO Frank Cary to give them a dozen engineers, a small budget, and a few months, to set up a small skunk-works called Entry Level Systems in Boca Raton, Florida, to develop a low-cost personal computer (code name “ Acorn ”). Here are a few PC-related examples: CPU speed was 4.77

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Software Review Startup Florida Technical Review 185

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

That’s what I found most attractive about software development: building things. What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. The co-founder / marriage analogy is apt. And I’ve always taken initiative.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

“No new business is worth starting in these times unless it can go global.” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

No one wants their hard work to go down in the name of a shoddy investment. The IT industry is made up of a wide range of sectors, such as software development, hardware manufacturing, and telecommunications. Understanding what industry stands a chance to succeed in the future is helpful in making investment decisions.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review 122

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Some examples of a feature being a company's primary advantage are: Apple compromises everything in the name of design. Not only was I not an expert on code review prior to building a code review tool, I wasn't even an expert on software development processes generally! The Dream Team. Common vision. Insider knowledge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Do you really need that full-time assistant, regular bookkeeper, and big-name attorney? For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels.

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Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 29, 2011

In a recent Capital Factory all-hands discussion, one of the founders started a question with a well-worn preamble: “I talked to a bunch of the mentors and they all told me the same thing about pricing, but I’m telling you, they’re wrong. What the crazy name “Smart Bear&# taught me about branding.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

You just don't wind up with $25 million to name a dorm unless you've gotten equity upside in something. Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder. If anything, the business school students need to figure out what their value add is to a design or software development student.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2014

Need a great name & URL for your new business? 5 Quick Tips for Buyers in Naming Projects – crowdspring.co/ThAKX4. The Right Way To Do A Software ROI Analysis | Feld Thoughts – crowdspring.co/1jQOLR4. Need a great name & URL for your new business?

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