Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If the software is ancillary to your mission, proceed through the rest of these considerations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If the software is ancillary to your mission, proceed through the rest of these considerations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas. We needed to cover Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials a month earlier in the class than in the current format.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If the software is ancillary to your mission, proceed through the rest of these considerations.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Being strategic with your intellectual property (IP) can be really important. One of my clients was concerned enough about this to set up a ‘clean room’ for a new software development project. But what is often even more important, especially for businesses built on ongoing innovation, is having a strong IP programme.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Some of the i-lab’s long-term residents include mobile app ActivePepper, baby gear rental company Baby Buggle, and software developer Rover. Even established ventures can get help, with growth resources including dedicated space and focused support. Innovation Depot.

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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.

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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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Why Intellectual Property Rights Are So Important – [link]. Advertising: Clever Automobile Ads – [link]. 40+ Most Impressive Print Media Advertisements – [link]. Doing POS?? (9

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Remember to also do a trademark search at your country’s intellectual property office, such as USPTO (U.S You could also consider online building software such as Wix, Weebly, and Shopify but these are not free. Discuss with your friends or family and select the most appropriate name. Patent and Trademark Office).

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

For the non-expert businessperson, this means advice about “what software to use&# but also guidance through the arcane arts of software development, including advice about programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, software architecture, revision control systems, and other hacker black magic.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Should You Build or Buy Your Micro-ISV? sent) October 11th, 2008 | Software Development Building your startup? I’m in a Book! Check out my book Like this post?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Being a Trademark Attorney and owner of an Intellectual Property Law Firm, The Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans, LLC, I know the importance of launching a business with a strong name that is not generic but rather suggestive and requires some thought or imagination. The rest is history. Thanks to Billy Lowe, Gloss & Toss® ! #6-

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. You might be tempted to skip hiring a manager altogether, tap into the startup spirit and “do it yourself&# (that is: manage your offshore developers yourself, remotely). Managing people is hard, managing developers is harder.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In the end, your business’s individual expertise and knowledge of your industry are what makes your product valuable — and that cannot be copied.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

A business person may have equal or more valuable skills than a software person, but they are not universally understood in the simplistic way that software people’s skills are. Ask anybody what a software developer does and they can give you the one-sentence “makes software” answer.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property. > community for software developers to share revenue is kindof tempting to do, though -- samlittlewood 215 days ago | link. source [link] ) -- humblest_ever 215 days ago | link. >

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Then came back as a sort of a young intellectual property attorney, working for a wonderful firm here in town. And what I think you heard in that, like "I accidentally created a software development competition," is actually not quite right. Software development. I didn't know what that would look like.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters. First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say).

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Since it is Excel based, we’re not giving up any intellectual property. If their trial expires, we allow them to re-apply but at least they’re not being nagged when they’re not ready to make a decision. 2) We offer frequent Free Dashboards. 3) We offer to create a dashboard for people completely free.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. We never even considered that approach. If this were a movie, ominous music would begin here.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. Classic Computers – Software Updates, New Features. Now open-source code libraries and developer tools allow organizations to use and build upon the work of external communities.

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