blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

making technical recruiting suck less. I ran technical recruiting at TrialPay for a year before going off to start my own agency. When a company gets to be a certain size, hiring managers don’t have the bandwidth to look over every resume and treat every applicant like a unique and beautiful snowflake. Aline Lerner's Blog.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

As I was looking at traffic stats I noticed a huge increase in mid-November due to a number of write-ups on startup and web-2.0 Startups aren’t here to build a brand – they’re not Proctor and Gamble or Versace…as a startup you’re here to acquire customers, and non-targeted traffic is almost worthless.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The Findings Five days later Patrick had 250 responses and enough information to decide on a name, but let the survey run because he was receiving solid information from the other (non-naming) survey questions, as well as leads who were interested in being notified when the app launched. Product naming is hard. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

The Differentiators The areas that kill the most time when consuming open source software are: Installation process Documentation Support Usability I’m sure we can all point out a handful of open source projects that have decent documentation and decent usability. How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob [.] #2

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Anyway, the way to manage that is still to execute better. The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

, but informally I’ve observed the following things, which follow a pattern that can be identified and counteracted: The initial marketing channel quickly saturated , so growth stalled at a non-zero but unsustainably-low rate. The initial marketing channel was sustainable for a while , but got wiped away due to external forces.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

To illustrate the extent to which a company’s name is largely irrelevant to its ultimate success, let’s examine the genesis of six successful technology companies’ names. Google is not descriptive of the company’s search core competency nor was it particularly easy to pronounce, spell or remember when the site was initially launched.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

No, these days even technical execution is mostly trivial (with a few exceptions for apps built around unique algorithms). We probably got some people on our mailing list who were actively looking for a team management solution in February, but not as interested when we launched beta in April. Far more important is marketing execution.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Consider this the Year in Review for Software by Rob. Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. Having been on the developer side of the coin a number of times, here is my take.&# Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. But instead of spending hours reading the book, read a detailed review of the book, or listen to an interview about the book. You’re a constant learner; a student of life.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 3, 2009

My name is Ruben Gamez and I’m a 32 year old web development manager living in south FL. In my day job I manage a web development department; nights and weekends are spent working on my own product called Bidsketch. Initially when I started doing web development, I was solely focused on becoming a better developer.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Personally my company only requires that you do not say we wrote the software if you changed something, and that’s only there to make us not get sued by you writing malware or causing security issues for 3rd parties, other then that, for anything non-binding on us, anything goes. Is there a technical/business reason here? #2

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

These are the tasks that will be easiest to outsource – the tasks that require a technical or common skill that’s not specific to your product. Start with non-critical tasks and be very specific in how they should be executed. I would guess you will enjoy learning the technical aspects more than outsourcing them.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

While plenty of advertising systems work on 0.8%, this simply requires more traffic than most non-funded products are able to achieve by offering a free plan. while the paid ones want features focused its core competency and more integration options. via Why Free Plans Don’t Work | Software by Rob [.] #10 . #8 Ruben on 08.18.10

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. I had no idea what people did whether tech, entertainment, or design. President of The Tech Museum. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). In any case, the valley is small.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. I had no idea what people did whether tech, entertainment, or design. President of The Tech Museum. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). In any case, the valley is small.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

You won’t wind up on the cover of Fast Company for writing a waste management application. But you can build a very lucrative income if people in the waste management industry need your app. For example, you are leaving technology factor out of consideration. 6 comments ↓ #1 Anton on 09.22.09

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