YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

In light of this, software developers are beginning to cater to the digital transformation needs of SMBs. Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business. SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. I’ll address the specifics of what this Founder Developer Gap looks like below. When will key hires come on? Accounting?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Product development process. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business.

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Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 187

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

10- Software development Photo Credit: Derek Bruce Developing software that can safeguard online accounts for small businesses is, in my opinion, a wonderful business to begin, particularly if you have a talent for technology and are interested in finding a means to thwart the efforts of hackers.

Software Review 118

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 118

View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software. Our product, a software development and testing tool, was amazingly innovative, worked great, and won a bunch of prestigious awards. I was fortunate enough to be hired back by Google, and while there, I was asked to be part of an “innovation task force.”

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Product Technical Review Marketing Lean 120

Transformify

JULY 25, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Often, people associate diversity hiring with gender ratios and diversity quotas. What does diversity hiring mean to you? That’s impressive!

Technical Review 61

Technical Review Programming Software Review Hiring 61

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Hire People Who Make Things Happen – crowdspring.co/1fMczta. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. – crowdspring.co/169pEqs.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Since then it has become much harder to find people and while we are talking about hiring relatively small numbers of people, the typical sources of candidates dont seem to be working.

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Los Angeles Technical Cofounder Southern California CTO Hire 150

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Agile Software Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 99

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Help the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs: Hire One | Small Biz Daily – [link]. Focus On Developers, Data And Big Problems | TechCrunch – [link]. Don’t Hire Entrepreneurs; Hire Entrepreneurial Spirit | HBR – [link]. All marketing metrics are relative | Christopher S. Penn – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Hire for potential, says Jason Fried of 37signals - crowdspring.co/1aHHrTp. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Hire for potential - crowdspring.co/1aHHrTp.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2011

Excellent tips for startups on hiring product managers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Optimizing Emotional Engagement In Web Design Through Metrics – [link]. 10 Amazing Ambigram Logos – [link].

Social Media 86

Social Media Small Business Design Media 86

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”. One should also determine if outsourcing to virtual assistants, subcontracting and hiring employees would truly work. Nuts and Bolts. Partnerships such as affiliate programmes may also work.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Software Review South Carolina Startup 100

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

9 Metrics to Help You Make Wise Decisions about Your Start-Up – [link]. Interesting thoughts from Wieden+Kennedy: Why We’re Not Hiring Creative Technologists – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 98

Social Media Small Business Design Media 98

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Slice and dice this landscape according to different features/metrics that you think are important to your CUSTOMER. Fast forward to 2013. – PEOPLE.

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Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

5 Customer Experience Metrics Every Successful Company Tracks | The Buffer blog – [link]. Why entrepreneurs struggle with MBA hires – [link]. 5 Customer Experience Metrics Every Successful Company Tracks | The Buffer blog – [link]. 5 Startup Costs You Might Not Have Thought About – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. Humans need to know why – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link]. The Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link]. Good to see companies focus on real advertising metrics – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link].

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A chief technology officer (CTO) is a C-suite executive who is focused on scientific and technological issues including web applications, mobile applications, electronic and digital media development. A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire CTO Technical Review 54

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Why Humility is Essential for Every New Startup Hire – [link]. Metrics for Series A – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How do I find good technical co-founders? Quora – [link]. Venture Math 101 – [link].

Social Media 107

Social Media Small Business Design Media 107

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Measuring What Matters: How To Pick A Good Metric – [link]. Why I No Longer Advise Startups to Hire M.B.A.s | The Accelerators-WSJ – [link]. Measuring What Matters: How To Pick A Good Metric – [link]. Measuring What Matters: How To Pick A Good Metric – [link]. Chicago-based BrightTag ranked #4!

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Focusing on simple, yet stunning design, as many people feel Apple does, or building a business by intentionally keeping things simple, in both products and processes, as I believe software developer 37Signals does. Capture your metric.

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Metrics Software Developers Software Development Campaign 63

Up and Running

APRIL 30, 2014

So you don’t have the cost of retraining, as well as the cost of going out and hiring an employee. You can track word of mouth referrals when you’re hiring an employee. You’ve got to be able to have some metrics that you can actually track and judge exactly how you’re doing on that.

Software Review 88

Software Review Oregon Retention Employee 88

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

Lean 68

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The traditional method of product development, known as the waterfall model , the design and creation of a product follows a very liner, and sequential process. Though the waterfall model is specifically to software development, it’s core principles resonate beyond software and into startups across the board.

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Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 126

Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Metrics – Mine is Bigger Than Yours The first thing SuperMac needed to do was to change how our potential color desktop publishing customers viewed our products versus our competitors’ products. As hokey as it is, when confronted with uncertainty or unknowns, human beings like to be reassured by comparative metrics.

Silicon Valley 127

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 127

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I wasn’t a very good software developer, and I was only modestly capable as a UX designer, but I learned enough to recognize clean code and effective, inspiring design when I saw it. I learned that software engineers?—?or or developers?—?are from administration to politik? are just as much artists as they are scientists.

Management 85

Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

When we decide to hire someone, the interviewers who were involved in the "hire" decision will sit down with the candidates resume and salary history and figure out what level they will start at. If we hire people in other cities, we will simply use industry-standard COLA adjustments to set salaries in other cities.

Software Review 48

Software Review Stock Options Salary Technical Review 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

Technical Cofounder 338

Technical Cofounder Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 338

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Agile Vancouver : Lean Development for Lean Times On Tuesday April 21st, we are hosting an afternoon event on the application of Lean Principles to software development. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software. Thank you so much!)

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Agile Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment 60