Transformify

AUGUST 27, 2017

Your team is directly correlated with the valuation of your startup. All of the above is true, but it is also true that many startups have failed because they hired too early, too fast, or fired too late. Then the hiring begins. Outsource the development of your MVP. It all starts with the founders. The downside?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Apple pulled ahead of other mobile phones in its early days largely because it cultivated an ecosystem of software developers who created iPhone apps to meet every consumer niche and need. Short-term earnings per share may be low, even as revenues and cash burned are high. Select new hires with attention to values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Cash is the fuel of every startup. It continually amazes me how two startups, seemingly comparable in stage and objective, can be so far apart in their burn rate. Here are some recommendations on how to keep the rate low, and help your startup to prosper at the same time: Measure it and manage it. Which would you bet on?

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

and if you’re like most of today’s startups — you need to get an app in the hands of customers. On the other side of the equation, there are a growing number of design, development, and digital media shops who are hungry to expand, or swap focus, to building a company that’s more than just a service shop.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The company landed one big customer representing 80% of total revenue, but that customer canceled. When a company has revenue but is susceptible to the fatal afflictions above, I call it “brittle.” Another is to prioritize accelerating sales until that customer represents a percentage of revenue that you can stomach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

Cash is the fuel of every startup. It continually amazes me how two startups, seemingly comparable in stage and objective, can be so far apart in their burn rate. Here are some principles on how to do that, and help your startup to prosper and live another day: Measure it and manage it. Pay people with equity or future revenue.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. Out of a sudden, both startup founders and investors started asking themselves ‘’ What is our remote strategy?

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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. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. The discounts?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Even when your startup is a one-man show and lots of fun, a “business” needs some discipline and controls to keep it from being defined as a hobby by investors, and assure some financial return. Billing and revenue collection. Manage human resources.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. Each of these three concepts demands extensive consideration in the specific context of the project and the organization as a whole.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Chris Dixon had an excellent post yesterday titled Recruiting programmers to your startup. Trada, like many of the companies we’ve invested in, had spectacular growth (both revenue, customers, and headcount) in 2011. It’s an extremely tight hiring market for software developers right now.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Neil carried on running an internet marketing consulting business so that he could pay for Crazy Egg’s software development. In 2016, Neil set up his own digital marketing agency, NP Digital , that has been hired to bring in more traffic for corporations like Amazon, HP and Google. Pay It Forward.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup. Lets see why.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

With the key themes of freedom and value at its core, “ The $100 Startup ” is a brilliant blueprint assisting “wannapreneurs” keen to heed the rallying call of the microbusiness revolution. Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

Today I want to write briefly about a strategy we have used to very good effect when hiring new workers: outsource. When we hear that word, we typically envision massive call centers or bucket shops filled with developers writing code half-way across the world. This does not just apply in the world of creative services.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Questions I ask Mike Evans: [1:46] Could you give us a high-level overview of the startup of Grubhub to IPO to what you’re doing now? More About Mike Evans: Hangry: A Startup Journey. Like this show?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

There is an unspoken rule: to launch a startup, you need to build a product, and to do that you need someone that can write code. A growing number of startups, however, are quietly disproving this assumption. The part that would require the most complex development – the true innovation that no one else does.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

How do you figure out what’s the right mix of skills for the co-founders of your startup? I was having breakfast with Radhika, an ex-grad student of mine who wanted to share her Customer Discovery progress for her consumer hardware startup. Who can I hire later? I told Radhika this is a perennial question for startups.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 21, 2014

They can help vet what you''re building, give you credibility in the hiring process and help assess candidates. Go find someone technical you could probably never hire. Maybe they''re locked up in golden handcuffs post-acquisition of their startup. Working with young companies is cool and it gets the juices flowing.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. Drupal works at all levels of software development. This imbalance keeps L.A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Cash is the fuel of every startup. It continually amazes me how two startups, seemingly comparable in stage and objective, can be so far apart in their burn rate. Here are some principles on how to do that, and help your startup to prosper and live another day: Measure it and manage it. Pay people with equity or future revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. That died with waterfall software development.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2016

As any business owner will tell you, the most important aspect of keeping their company afloat is money — money to hire new employees, money to buy new equipment and money to get those fantastic ideas off the ground. This means that the wages of employees working on software and technology development (i.e.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The cost of running a business today can be financially exhausting for companies that range from the simplest startups to the most well-established corporations. Fortunately, developers and tech companies are creating solutions that help businesses reduce operating expenses while simplifying their processes. Those days are long gone.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Neil carried on running an internet marketing consulting business so that he could pay for Crazy Egg’s software development. In 2016, Neil set up his own digital marketing agency, NP Digital , that has been hired to bring in more traffic for corporations like Amazon, HP and Google. Pay It Forward.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The ROI of Blogging: What the Groove Blog is Worth to Our Startup – crowdspring.co/YUXa2r. The Ultimate Startup Marketing Strategy | by Venture Harbour – [link] crowdspring.co/1xxV8lb.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve spent my life in innovation, eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching it. the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: Cultivate Trust and Nurture Loyalty – [link]. Small Business and Startups: Cultivate Trust and Nurture Loyalty – [link].

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

billion, it’s clear that Snyk is driving the industry’s shift to a new developer-centric approach to security and is now the undeniable leader in this space. That’s what I found most attractive about software development: building things. You should only do this with internal hires who you feel can take the role on.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. billion in revenue annually. He pivoted his startup to a new strategy. Thanks to Jason Feldman, Immigrate Me !

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II) - crowdspring.co/1atXci8. Hire for potential, says Jason Fried of 37signals - crowdspring.co/1aHHrTp. posts/2441.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

In contrast, most startups are not burdened by these problems and are characterised by their speed and innovation. The question business leaders should consider is how to capture the startup spirit and drive their innovation. Hiring and keeping top talent is an incredibly hard task and can drive up costs further.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 22, 2012

During the summer, one of the Capital Factory companies developed a plan to sell into the “mid-sized” corporate market. And since the sales effort isn’t much different between 75 seats or 750, this is a lot more work for the revenue.

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