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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Developer Founder Viral Oauth 384

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

Software 70

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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. It integrates seamlessly with your existing payroll, POS, and HR software.

Software Review 113

Software Review Startup Azure SEO 113

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.

Startup 252

Startup eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping 252

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.

Software Engineering 126

Software Engineering Software Developers Software Development Software 126

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. And make sure you see those projects. That says something.

Web Development 204

Web Development Web Developer Los Angeles 204

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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Angel Investor Boston Seed Stage Syndicate 332

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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B2B Sales Cycle Belgium IP 150

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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Hosting Bootstrapping .Net Social Network 248

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.

eCommerce 196

eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net 196

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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Product Name Naming Product Software Review 46

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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Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 232

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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Cost Startup Hosting Bootstrapping 220

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.

Sweat Equity 107

Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 107

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.

Burn Rate 231

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 231

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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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. I know our industry , I know how our customers think, and in our industry …&#.

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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

Software Review 185

Software Review Startup Florida Technical Review 185

Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Paying the Price of Success → Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

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Software Review Software RSS Software Developers 39

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.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 78

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

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

This episode’s Micropreneur is Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson who recently launched his online mind mapping software ThoughtMuse. == Rob: Hi Thomas. Thomas: My name is Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson. I’m a 31 year old Norwegian software developer. By day I work in a small startup specializing in mobile software.

Software Review 40

Software Review Software RSS Software Developers 40

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.” Software was expensive. You name it.” ” Developers Don’t Get Cheaper. Developers, on the other hand, are expensive: $90,000 per year.

Engineer 60

Engineer Database Open Source Acquisition 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Tunnelware is not just a data visualization software or data management software. It is quality assurance software, a design and real construction comparison platform, and construction process simulation software. The three founders of DigitalTwin Technology met during the EU ICT 2017 in Budapest, Hungary.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. Now, the startup and its software solutions are both household names. Starting out, you can’t hit every network and outlet full-force. million people in 24 hours as a result.

Social Media 158

Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

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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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Micropreneur Spotlight: Online Mind Mapping Software ThoughtMuse Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? ’ And we mean it; our saying so is not simply some social nicety.

Software Review 34

Software Review Software Fresno RSS 34

Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The goal of this article is to look at this decision from a number of viewpoints and to try and guide startup founders towards a decision that will make the most sense for them. As informed by agile software development , some of the basic ideas behind running a startup the agile way include: Welcoming change. About the Author.

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Agile Software Review Startup SCRUM 40

Austin Startup

JULY 8, 2017

I can’t tell you how many times I run into first-time founders who’ve been fed absolute nonsense from ‘advisors’ ‘mentors’ or similarly named people about their ‘secrets’ for managing legal spend. Software automation (or free templates) will not replace your lawyers, or dramatically cut legal spend. See: Luddites v.

Startup 48

Startup Salary Early Stage Software 48

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?

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Software Review 94

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.

Incubator 133

Incubator .Net Cofounder Software Developers 133

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.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 120

The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. You know what’s cool?

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Startup SCRUM Cofounder Aggregator 130

Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

While this article is meant as a break from the normal seriousness of this blog, I honestly believe that we can learn much from a group of founders who sold hundreds of millions ( some say 1 billion ) units. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. 3 Brad on 10.11.10

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Software Review Germany RSS Software Developers 65

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). Completely unrelated to CVF’s investment, Deb Eichten, who is on the staff at Entrepreneurship at Cornell, recently interviewed the founders of ATC. So, the following fits into both of my professional worlds (Cornell and CVF).

Technical Review 65

Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Why Founders Can’t Afford to Have Any Weak Links | by Mark Suster – crowdspring.co/18L78oE. Why Founders Can’t Afford to Have Any Weak Links | by Mark Suster – crowdspring.co/18L78oE. A Web Designer’s Guide to Choosing Product and Business Names | Vandelay Design Blog – crowdspring.co/18Ga1qJ. 18H7DOw.

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2018

Named after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer Cirillo used in university, a pomorodo is typically 25 to 30 minutes of focused work time, followed by a short 3-5 minute break. Coffitivity is the most straightforward app of the three, and as you might have guessed from the name, it specializes in the ambient sounds of cafés and coffee shops.

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