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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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). 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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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

Unfortunately, however, our love affair with startups is unfounded, especially as it relates to those who may be looking to provide, market to or target their product/service to the startup segment. We found most unfunded or under-funded startups unable to compete with larger budgets, backed by some of the most prolific venture capitalists.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". He didn't just "tell it like it is," he gave up his marketing secrets and opened his company books. you have to truly bare your soul if you want to compete on the transparency front.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 23, 2012

Market research is a very important step for all startups as, amongst other things, it helps you understand whether your offering is likely to generate demand. In looking to answer these questions focus on these overall understanding you are trying to develop with relation to your clientele and market: Understand where your customers are.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2016

Learn the technical skills to develop an app, come up with a creative and relevant idea for an app, polish your soft skills, conduct extensive research about your target market and start your journey. Why Android is a preferred platform to develop software.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Furthermore, it allows businesses to create more successful marketing campaigns through tailored content. The number of businesses adopting predictive technology is fast growing; the global predictive analytics market is expected to reach $14.95 billion by 2023. GDPR compliance. Xavier was previously Director of Act!

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Conduct market research. Part of your market analysis should involve a deep dive into potential competitors. You may already have some in mind or need to conduct a completely new analysis to better understand who you’ll be competing against in the subscription service space. Software development can be especially competitive.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing – crowdspring.co/1jqLtKQ. Engagement is a Long-Term Process (some tips on drip marketing) – crowdspring.co/TiSCjz.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! It’s no secret that visitor data measured by Alexa, Compete and others is flat our wrong – [link]. 40 Effectively Designed Non-Profit and Charity Web Sites – [link].

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

For the uninitiated, Zoho introduced a CRM system that was one-tenth the price of Salesforce.com and penetrated the lower end of the market using an Indian cost structure. They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business Marketing: Website Design Best Practices and Tips – [link]. Small Business Marketing: Website Design Best Practices and Tips – [link]. – [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

Pick any 5 successful software companies you’d like from one-person microISVs up to the largest and trace how their market focus, product, marketing etc. Q: You spent two years working on StartupToDo before bringing it to market. Jason, you’re right: social media marketing takes lots of time.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 25, 2010

What I’ve found during the last year of running the Micropreneur Academy is that once you’ve seen hundreds of websites and run fifty A/B tests you develop a sixth sense about how a site can be improved. You begin to do this almost without thinking (unconscious competence for those in know).

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

It’s completely un-targeted (unless your niche market is other startups) and you have no relationship with that audience. 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 14, 2010

Photo by DeclanTM This article is #7 in a series about startup marketing. I’ve gone on and on about the subject of pre-launch marketing on my podcast , made mention of it in my book , went into detail on TechZing , and again on a recent Micropreneur Academy conference call. Far more important is marketing execution.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. Most startups fail. Facts about your customers don’t come from your friends and families.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I’ve heard for years about the importance of finding a market before building a software product. I would think, “How can you find a market for something before you build it?&# You can sell garbage to a hungry market and make money. “That’s ridiculous!&# Oh, so very true. You just need to be lucky.

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Software By Rob

JULY 22, 2010

BTW, do you have separate for lists members and non-members, for any given web app? #2 at 1:03 pm >>BTW, do you have separate for lists members and non-members, for any given web app? Despite low traffic numbers, it’s getting a good conversion rate. Next step: producing newsletter autoresponders. 2 Rob on 10.19.10

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

I couldn’t believe how inefficient and non-transparent the rental industry was and I knew then that I’d one day come back to take it on. For enterprise software companies, this was quite far from the truth. Clark: Competing through Social Networks. On Harvard Business School. Prince: Business History.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 13, 2010

Our goal is to help non-venture-backed, bootstrapped startups, microISVs and Micropreneurs. at 3:38 pm I like Cranky Geeks, Internet Business Mastery, Internet Marketing: Insider tips and advice for Online Marketing, Mixergy, North Atlantic Radio, The Pipeline, and Venture Voice. #3 My new podcast launches today.

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

Instead, we’re talking about building your startup to maximize its value based on factors the market values, since these factors will make it a better company to own in the both the short- and long-term. In a traditional business this means offering non-commodity products and services.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

If they had done it for the money they would have stopped long before they became an overnight success five years of non-stop practice later. Heading out from school to hone your songwriting skill is not on the radar for most high schoolers. But they did it because they loved writing music.

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Software By Rob

JULY 20, 2010

“How to Win Friends…&# was an eye-opener for me and in fact the very first book which was recommended to me ever since I started reading books in this non-fiction genre. I agree with Dustin. But books are vastly subjective! Your site-blog looks cool…I am feeding it to my RSS. Leave a Comment Building Your Startup?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Even fewer can be installed in five minutes or less, even by an experienced software developer. How to Compete Against Open Source As a commercial software vendor you have to focus on your key advantages over open source software: Save Your Users Time. Market Hard. Market Hard. at 9:05 am [.]

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

We will also compare our salaries within each level to the competitive norms to make sure we are paying market salaries, at which point people might receive a raise. These people sit around thinking "lofty thoughts about markets, products, the competition, and the like. These categories are quoted from Chapter 2 in OMalley.

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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. Pay Quickly. It’s addictive.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Consider this the Year in Review for Software by Rob. The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer “This advice is intended for someone looking to become a freelance software developer or web designer (or looking to start a small web design/development/consulting firm).

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Software By Rob

APRIL 21, 2010

at 4:43 pm I’d love to write an automated comment moderator, which downvoted or otherwise penalized brainless and non-constructive comments. This post was cool to reflect on how much I’ve learnt and am still learning about myself, and people… thanks! #9 9 Chris Pearce on 05.02.10 10 Tim Cull on 05.06.10

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. Most startups fail. Facts about your customers don’t come from your friends and families.

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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. I mean come on, I need to know about marketing and trends and stuff, right?&# Massive markets that you don’t need to understand to run a software company.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

A Weeding Out of Sorts What’s happened as the press has turned its attention to the next big thing is that the long-tail of blogs, the thousands of new blogs created each day by non-techies looking to announce what they ate for lunch has waned, and they have now gathered on Facebook or Twitter to talk about that important second meal of the day…among (..)

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

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. Amazon – While arguably better than the company’s initial name, “Cadabra.com”, “Amazon” does not convey the company’s initial core competency of online book sales.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Perhaps, when things settle down a bit more, those companies will even raise series A capital from traditional institutional sources to expand the product features, beef up the operations team more fully and make progress in finding initial product-market fit. Are VCs going to be competing with crypto hedge funds?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Perhaps, when things settle down a bit more, those companies will even raise series A capital from traditional institutional sources to expand the product features, beef up the operations team more fully and make progress in finding initial product-market fit. Are VCs going to be competing with crypto hedge funds?

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 3, 2009

I wanted to learn how to successfully launch and market a product. Later in the development process, I was fighting fatigue. But I was also doing important marketing related activities at night – building a sales website, building my email list, link building, blogging, etc. What was my main goal? It’s eye opening.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. They were very concerned with competing with free. This is true even though the revenue per customer is non-normal. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation. Start Here If You’re New.

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