Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. But in the real world, when you get to business numbers, sales are not accounts receivable and revenue isn’t income and people who read financial projections need to know that an apple is an apple, and not an orange. . Subscribe by email.

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Software By Rob

JULY 31, 2009

Hierarchy of the Successful Independent Software Developer – Freelancer -> Consultant -> MicroISV -> Micropreneur. Startup Marketing Advice from Balsamiq Studio – With the startup success he’s achieved in the past 18 months, Peldi seems to know what he’s doing.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup is Really Like, and more… Crowdsourcing Your Product Name → Hear me on the Startup Success Podcast Cool News, Links & Reviews (..)

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

I was more open to it becoming a real company, but I never really expected it to be a real company from the beginning. We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that. On Harvard Business School.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few weeks ago a Micropreneur Academy member asked about getting started as a freelance developer since freelance development can be more conducive to getting started as a Micropreneur. September 29th, 2009 | Software Development Building your startup? And that’s the position you want to be in.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I won’t run through all of them (I’m sure he’ll publish them in essay form soon), but my favorites were: Trends to Bet On (excerpt) Software Efficient markets Small companies Super good customer service Server based apps Open source The iPhone Design Real-time Founders Trends Not to Bet On Credentials granted by institutions Business (..)

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing WordPress Headaches with Closing HTML Tag – Any Ideas?

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Or from selling your application to open-sourcing it? Think about it this way: if your market asked for it, would you be willing to switch from a web app to an iPhone app? Or from iPhone to desktop? How about switching from building a product to providing services? Monthly to one-time billing?

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Yourself and your lead dev, along with your other key leaders like product and sales managers, would need to listen, internalize and execute the strategy. You could have the same problem hiring for other leadership roles too like Director Of Software Development or Master Bottle Washer.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Another tip (whether outsourcing or developing in-house, make sure you follow the “2-man&# rule, which means that you should have at least 2 people familiar with your code which gives you insurance in case one goes away or moves on. So it can be done.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 1, 2010

What would a sales call look like, starting with your 30-second pitch, then dealing with skeptical questions, trying to earn this potential customer's interest, respect, and eventually money, all with only one advantage? You should go through this exercise because this skill is valuable in every sales call. Doesn't that sound nice?

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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. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors. Personal authority.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. You should have projection ranges of sales and adoption rates. Other possibilities include programming conferences, business networking events , programming forums, Q & A sites like StackOverflow , and open source project contributors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools. We are focusing on four primary principals from DDD: an emphasis on business value, cross-functional collaboration and a focus on the big picture, all while employing software best practices.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. source [link] ) -- humblest_ever 215 days ago | link. > Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

There is also an industry of people who put up "independent" review sites and drive a lot of affiliate sales through PPC. In the second group, you are recruiting from the zillions of people who would voluntarily sign up to work on an open source project. Unethical IMO but some people make money that way.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. NetBooks – Marketing, sales, inventory and financial control in one place. Track leads and manage your sales pipeline. Pulse – Cash flow management app for small businesses.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Chorus.ai (2015) – Chorus uses AI to analyze sales calls by joining the conference calls, transcribing the data and extracting important action items. is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as an enterprise-grade cloud service with machine learning technology.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

In this article, we unveil some points about our software development approaches. Transformify delivers … Software as a Service: SaaS. First of all, let’s talk about what type of software does Transformify ( TFY) deliver? It is maintained by Facebook and a community of independent developers and companies.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! It may wind up for sale on SitePoint , or it may be relegated to the bone yard of failed software products. 34 comments ↓ #1 Sean Tierney on 11.18.08

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Creating Urgency in Your Sales Copy – [link]. Government releases open source code – [link]. Photoshop Tutorial: Realistic, High quality printer icon – [link]. – [link].

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The woman in charge of sales was so tenacious that I used to feelsorry for potential customers on the phone with her. This was not uncommonduring the Bubble, especially in companies run by business types, who thought of software development as something terrifying thattherefore had to be carefully planned. Watch them.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

We could get into a discussion about how much developers make, and how many costs you will take on by quitting your day job, but it’s completely irrelevant. As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense. 4 Inflecto [Software Developers] on 01.08.09

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Cybersecurity unicorn Snyk was founded in 2015 with the mission to help developers make their code secure. Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation. Posted on January 31, 2013.

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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. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

But no-code software can come with the added cost of technical debt. Technical debt happens from unexpected bugs and additional development work that results from using short-term solutions (like templates or open-source code). Risks vary based on whether you develop or purchase software. Integrations.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe that means going to a conference or two, or working on an open-source project, or instituting “10% time&# at work (like Google’s 20% time but more reasonable for those of us who don’t have billions in profit from a cash-cow). None of these new tasks are fun or creative. Someday that could cash-flow by itself!

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. Jill Tarter, Director of the Center for SETI Research - new turtle mascot, open source code, cloud services from amazon, telescopes.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. Jill Tarter, Director of the Center for SETI Research – new turtle mascot, open source code, cloud services from amazon, telescopes.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. We now understand that’s wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Spolsky: The era of software was a narrow period of time. 15 minutes.

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