SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. What’s different, special here?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The feedback was good, but some readers asked me to be a bit more specific on attributes that might indicate an ideal startup partner. In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” You may be too independent to be partner material. Does not need to be managed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

The feedback was good, but some readers asked me to be a bit more specific on attributes that might indicate an ideal startup partner. In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” You may be too independent to be partner material. Does not need to be managed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ Ten Steps in Choosing the Right Startup Partner ”. The feedback was good, but some readers asked me to be a bit more specific on attributes that might indicate an ideal startup partner. You may be too independent to be partner material. Compatible work styles.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Businesses may benefit from India’s talent pool and technical advances by partnering with them. Let’s explore the best software outsourcing companies in India. India is the world’s leader in software outsourcing , providing benefits to businesses around the globe. Proficient experts guarantee superior software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

The feedback was good, but some readers asked me to be a bit more specific on attributes that might indicate an ideal business partner. In this article, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” You may be too independent to be partner material. Does not need to be managed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

The simple answer is to find a business partner, not an “implementer,” who already has the technical experience you need, and is willing and able to run that side of the business. If you are an entrepreneur, like Andrew Mason , CEO of Groupon, with a degree in music and no technical business partner to be found, your job is a bit harder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2021

As an example, I worked with Bill Gates early on, but I fear he may have failed without partners Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen. Gates was a software developer genius, but Ballmer upheld the marketing and business side. You will find that your team, partners, and vendors feel the same way. Paul Allen was the idea visionary.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It provides the freedom to partner with entrepreneurs and reduce the costs of agency work in exchange for equity in their startup. Why It’s Critical to Choose a Modern Software Development Technology. Agencies Need Well-Defined Procedures for Startup Development. It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2023

In my opinion, Bill Gates would have failed without his partners Steve Ballmer, and Paul Allen. You need to convince a thousand partners that they can become winners, if they join you as believers. Bill Gates ran the technical show, but Steve Ballmer never let him forget the marketing and business side of the equation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2020

In my opinion, Bill Gates would have failed without his partners Steve Ballmer, and Paul Allen. You need to convince a thousand partners that they can become winners, if they join you as believers. Bill Gates ran the technical show, but Steve Ballmer never let him forget the marketing and business side of the equation.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Are there other founders, business leaders, partners, or administrators? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? How big is the anticipated development team? Where are you today, and what’s happening right now? What’s been done so far to validate the concept?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I spoke with experts at a number of software development shops to get their insights on this topic, leaders at DarwinApps , Casual Corp , HappyFunCorp , OAB Studies , Coventure (a VC with its own software development team), and World Accelerator (an accelerator focused on premium domain names). Photo credit.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 24, 2020

In 2006, Rustam Gilfanov, together with his partners, opened an international outsourcing IT company in Kyiv. Today, this company is the largest software developer for the gaming industry, marketing and finance.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

Software development is an ongoing project. Yes, your investors are sometimes the best source of strategic advice and even operational direction, including efforts in improving customer-facing product features in your software development cycles. “We We are thrilled to be partnering with the team at Kajabi.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. Choosing the right partner for a technical review is important.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

To get to what’s right for you, you need a tech partner with a deep understanding of your business needs, software development experience, data engineering skills and AI expertise. But there’s a big difference between an LLM implementation and the right implementation for you.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2017

by Julia Kravchenko, partner and VP of HR at Qubit Labs. Software development companies face lots of different cases, but generally all of them fall into two main categories: – Client has been nursing the idea of his/her mobile app for a long time but it takes months or even years to bring it to the stage of development estimation.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

Software Development. When you have an in-house team of developers, you can’t expect them to have knowledge in every skill and technology out there. Besides that, outsourcing software development will give you access to a skilled and trained team, which can be a big competitive advantage for your company.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic. The financial pain of unplanned delays.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Find customers, partners and channels early. Get out there personally and find that first customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Find customers, partners and channels early. Get out there personally and find that first customer.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

After that, he spent five years working for a tiny software development firm in Jacksonville Beach. I have a terrific team of partners and friends to bounce ideas off of and grow them into solutions, and eventually goods and services, when they come to me, which they do frequently.”. Giving For the Sake of Humanity.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs. Therefore we’re going to teach the class in the following order: 1) value proposition, 2) customer segments, 3) activities, 4) resources, 5) partners, 6) channel, 7) customer relationships, 8) revenue/costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2012

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Find customers, partners and channels early. Get out there personally and find that first customer.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Even if you truly believe they can, your team needs to include at least one experienced team leader to guide the rest of the engineers through software development specifics. In average, the hourly rate for software engineering services reaches $47 per hour. Junior engineers cannot deliver a high-quality product. Hourly rate.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

As he notes, you have to be able to advance the learning curve fast in software development because changes occur at such a rapid pace. Things like negotiating distribution channels and partners and how to handle market expansions. It was interesting, because that transition wasn’t as challenging as you might think it would be.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. The answer to that question is what goes in the “Resources” box on the canvas (and if third parties outside your company are going to provide it, in the Partners box.).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2014

In addition, the top three monthly Crowdtivate campaigns will receive exclusive assistance, including access to test users, marketing support, startup funding, free software development, invention development, and infrastructure support.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Find customers, partners and channels early. Get out there personally and find that first customer.

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ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2020

Agile for developers is not Agile for marketers. The differences between how agility manifests in a marketing team vs. a software team can be striking. While software developers prefer more prescriptive methods, like Scrum , marketers borrow heavily from the Kanban framework. Image source ). What will I do today?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

Let’s face it – you’re probably an excellent salesperson, a great networker and a capable businessman, but software development is a whole other story. This simply makes the development process much easier. This is one of the many challenges that you’ll have to take head-on as the founder of a tech startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

The simple answer is to find a business partner, not an “implementer,” who already has the technical experience you need, and is willing and able to run that side of the business. If you are an entrepreneur, like Andrew Mason , CEO of Groupon, with a degree in music and no technical business partner to be found, your job is a bit harder.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Reasons for new product development. Consider Fayrix Your Trusted Partner. The process of research and development means leveraging the highest-end technologies and expertise to suggest, validate and create better solutions for your business. Final Thoughts. What is an R&D investment?

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