Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. Adding features without making the product too complex creates real value for your customers and produces revenue for your company.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

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. . Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue.

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Software By Rob

JULY 17, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Two Must-Read Books for Micropreneurs Transitioning from Developer to Software Entrepreneur → The Future of the Web is Small, Academic Earth, Beatles Rock Band, Top Developer Blogs, et al.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The Startup Success Podcast – After the demise of The Micro-ISV Show, Bob Walsh is back discussing issues affecting software startups. We help you team with others, track revenue and share it openly and fairly. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 6, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. When I originally published Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup , my intention was to follow up the PDF and paperback versions with Kindle, iBook and ePub versions. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? per book in revenue.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2009

Digital Products → Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. “Front-End Developer&# Resume – Awesome.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. General Rules It’s impossible to say unequivocally which traffic is better for every website, but having launched or revamped over 20 revenue-generating websites I’ve noticed a definite pattern in traffic quality based on the source.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. A recent discussion in the Micropreneur Academy surrounded the topic of starting an online business selling physical products as opposed to software. And credit card processing fees took another 3%, which left me with a net profit of around 10% of my gross revenue.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. And I can even imagine cases where it might burn more cash than a traditional startup. Lets see why.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

however, public SaaS companies like Concur, Saba, Taleo, LivePerson and Ultimate are growing 50-100% per year and trading at an average 5x trailing revenue multiples (I excluded salesforce leading the pack with 9x!) whereas traditional software companies of this size have a growth rate of less than 10% and revenue multiples of 2-2.5x.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. Your projections should provide a range of best-case/worst-case revenue scenarios over a number of years. Â Facebook.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model. It only tends to weakly proxy revenue. Results From Testing: 100% Increase In Revenue. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation. by Patrick.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Email Helps Get Marginal Revenue Out Of Existing Customers For Almost Nothing. If you like what you see, I encourage you to sign up for the RSS feed. Patrick is the founder of Kalzumeus Software.

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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.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

As some commenters have pointed out, there are disciplines that can be adopted and made cultural in a software development organization, where reinvention, or refactoring is an institutional norm. Featured essays and book recommendations Subscribe by email Follow me RSS Feed Twitter About About me Featured essays My fave books stats.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. > community for software developers to share revenue is kindof tempting to do, though -- samlittlewood 215 days ago | link.

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Software By Rob

MAY 21, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I let him know he would be better off if he adjusted his expectations and shot for $6k in revenue in the first 6 months. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. But who needs revenue?) Once you have a viable product and some revenue, you’re in control. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. Check out my book Like this post?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Revenue is the new black | Gigaom – [link]. Revenue Doesn’t Matter – [link]. IAB: US Interactive Ad Revenues Hit $9.3 Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 50 Stunning RSS Symbol Inspired Logo Designs – [link].

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I talk a lot about marketing/sales on this blog because it’s crucial to your success, but in this case there’s a real trade off between growing revenue and keeping your current customers happy. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Don’t waste it.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. It then crunches those numbers together with an expected conversion rate and expected price to give you an idea of expected monthly revenue. Maybe we can’t rely on our freemium, advertising-based, viral revenue model, though. Except for one last thing.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? If it grows in revenue that’s fantastic. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. Please post them to the comments. Check out my book Like this post?

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. As a software developer I want things in neat little boxes. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? at 4:12 pm Loved this post; so true, and so often overlooked by software developers. Correction…it was 0%. I want solid answers.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month. His reason for doing this?

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing → The Software Product Myth Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? 16 Rob on 11.19.08

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? If it grows in revenue that’s fantastic. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. Please post them to the comments. Check out my book Like this post?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. They cover topics like how to pivot your product and/or revenue model to find market fit, how to test a business idea before building the business, how to find a business model for your company, and how to build great companies. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? It adds up.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Go ahead and laugh, but over 95% of Moon River Software’s revenue this year has been from consulting services. The software I sell has made up less than 5% of total revenue in the past 12 months. Get future articles delivered via Email or subscribe to the RSS feed. Myth #3: I need a partner.

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davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It gets some traction, some revenue, some press, raises some money, gets huge and then sells out to Google or Disney or whoever. blog comments powered by Disqus Search About Dave Troy Im an entrepreneur, software developer, and community builder in Baltimore, Maryland. The Ideal You hear about it all the time. Try again later.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters. First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say). That may be attractive to some people.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter , connect with me on Quora. Microsoft – Initially descriptive of the company’s software developed for the “micro” computer market, which eventually evolved into the “personal” computer market. infoChachkie. Thanks for visiting!

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Planix – Consistently and accurately estimate resources, scheduling and costs of software development projects.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 22, 2012

And since the sales effort isn’t much different between 75 seats or 750, this is a lot more work for the revenue. Or looking at it another way, the total number of employees of mid-sized companies is 26m, whereas large is 60m. So my immediate reaction to anyone “selling to middle” is the same: Yuck.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. 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.

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