Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Visit online forums, social networks, and blogs and check customer star rating and comments. Open source software or clone script is also available. As of June 2018, GitHub hosts 57 million open source project repositories. They come with literally thousands of design templates and plugins.

Software Review 45

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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]. Excellent post by Seth Godin on the challenges of dealing w/ email, social networks, etc. Government releases open source code – [link]. The Imitation Economy – [link].

Social Media 93

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You can certainly find open-source alternatives for less, but while other tools can challenge BaseCamps functionality, they cant touch its UI. Its worth mentioning that software development firms or other startups with very detailed project milestones and dependencies may find BaseCamp insufficient for some situations.

Startup 53

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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. Prince: Business History.

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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.

Technical Review 76

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blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

These are the software folks who a few years ago may have been a Director of Software Engineering, VP of Software Engineering, or even just a Software Development Manager — and they’re now running their own companies (usually, a combination of local talent + outsourcing of grunt software work overseas).

Southern California 40

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. Our platform extracts the real value from social networks, empowering online businesses to attract, engage and understand users like never before. How do we do this?

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

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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.

Fractional CTO 40

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Ximdesk – Collaboration and social networking platform for enterprise. GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together. Xing XING – A global networking and contact management site for business professionals.

Software Review 78

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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.

Technical Review 40

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Choosing Between Mobile and Native Apps One of the resounding themes for mobile software developers in 2011 is the debate between building a native app or building a mobile web app. While some developers are looking at ways to build hybrid solutions , this is a topic that continues to become more complex.

Mobile 90

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Facebook is a great example here – undisputed leader in social networking, but losing money and quite tiny in the financial scheme of things. #5 5 Stephane Grenier on 09.23.09 at 1:02 pm Firstly, just to let everyone know, my company LandlordMax is more than one person, but not too much more.

Marketing 50

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. The main causes are: Client fails to precisely express their requirements to the vendor; Client continuously changes their mind during the development process; A poorly constructed development contract.

Bootstrapping 41

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. 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. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

Java 107

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense. Bug Tracking - You can go open source and save money, but you may lose it eventually in the time you spend maintaining and upgrading it. 4 Inflecto [Software Developers] on 01.08.09

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. I would rather go for an established development company which can easily scale development team as project grows. Also consider hiring by recommendation.

CTO Hire 84

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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. social network/web analysis/etc. source [link] ) -- humblest_ever 215 days ago | link. > Nobody ever stole our ideas. Shocking, I know.

Stealth 41

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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