Software By Rob

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. 2 Aiesha on 11.03.09

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

Here are a few examples from my personal experience: You need to translate/localize your products. I was once asked by a top executive of a major software company why we were not selling more products in Finland. I informed him that we needed to translate the software into Finnish at a cost of $50,000.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Starting a business and launching new products is a ton of work. From figuring out what exactly your customers need to nailing down your company name, you’ll encounter hurdle after hurdle. Here at Palo Alto Software, we’re going through this process right now. How we picked our product name. Stay tuned!

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2018

Put simply, a trademark is used to protect things like company names, logos, slogans, product names, etc. While trademarks are managed by the USPTO, the U.S. Copyright Office manages copyright registration. Copyrights are much older than trademarks, stretching all the way back to the Copyright Act of 1790.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. 11 Why Free Plans Don’t Work | Software by Rob on 08.18.10 13 Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding | Software by Rob on 10.16.10 13 comments ↓ #1 Rex Dixon on 01.12.10

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

If you do have competition, pay special attention to your product name, price range, materials used, what the product claims to do, packaging, and who the manufacturer is. Here’s an example of a great sell sheet for a product called Well Well Wow! Your sell sheet should include: Your product name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

As a follow-on to that article, here are a few examples from my personal experience: You need to translate/localize your products. I was once asked by a division manager of a major software company why we were not selling more products in Finland. Watch your product naming.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

After the top notch article on migrating to Universal Analytics using Google Tag Manager , we got some feedback from you that some background on what tags and tag management are would be helpful. Managing tags in this way quickly becomes a mess that drives teams apart. What is a Tag Manager? What is a “Tag” Anyway?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Find global sources now. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

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Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

Simply having administrators black out candidates’ names and addresses before they’re reviewed by hiring managers is one surprisingly effective, easy place to start. If all your product managers come from Google, they’re accustomed to a certain set of business models and a certain set of tools.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Thus, join the ranks of Yahoo, Google, Amazon, eBay, Cisco and Microsoft and focus your limited time and resources on perfecting your customer value proposition, not on devising an ideal company name. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Intuitive URL. Avoid Hyphens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Find global sources now. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

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ConversionXL

MAY 15, 2018

and tag managers like Google Tag Manager can be found here.). survey created in Hotjar, invite and link to survey deployed to paying customers via email marketing software, e.g. Mailchimp, GetResponse, Campaign Monitor, etc.). Installation guides for specific CMSes like WordPress, Drupal, Shopify, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Find global sources now. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Find global sources now. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Here’s a review from Judah Phillips ,, an analytics expert, consultant, and author who wrote Building a Digital Analytics Organization , Digital Analytics Primer , and Ecommerce Analytics : Judah Phillips : “Adobe offers a selection of analytics products named “Adobe Analytics” as part of the “Adobe Marketing Cloud.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Find global sources now. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Find global sources now. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Find global sources now. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Find global sources now. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Perhaps you wake up in the morning and walk into a store and buy new clothes (or expensive software from Oracle). And if you have the power to have this discussion with the right management level in the company (sometimes we don't have that power, and that is ok), you'll also get to ask some really hard questions. What is it?

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