crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions – crowdspring.co/1nHT6tS. Salaries Startup Founders Pay Themselves | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1nHU2OK.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

This way, I could focus solely on studying and building web apps for my portfolio. After building a few web applications, I went to a coding bootcamp, Dev Bootcamp, thinking there were huge knowledge gaps I had to fill. Job search Part 1. Job Search Part 2. There was no turning back at this point, I was all in.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Do I update my resume and start the job search again, or do I do something else? Even though I had a job and earned a decent salary, I was spinning my wheels just to pay my bills. So I packed in my day job – as a software developer – and devoted more time monetizing the blog and website.

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Software By Rob

JULY 16, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← One of the Most Time Consuming Startup Roadblocks The Future of the Web is Small, Academic Earth, Beatles Rock Band, Top Developer Blogs, et al. Leave a Comment Building Your Startup?

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Blogs Michael Coté James Governor Stephen OGrady GreenMonk RedMonk Rollup RedMonk TV RedMonk James Governor's Monkchips An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence About & Contact « I’m Back, with a Start: Are You Ready for a 9 Day Sustainability Summit at the Prince of Wales’ Gaff?

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Blogs Michael Coté James Governor Stephen OGrady GreenMonk RedMonk Rollup RedMonk TV RedMonk James Governor's Monkchips An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence About & Contact « I’m Back, with a Start: Are You Ready for a 9 Day Sustainability Summit at the Prince of Wales’ Gaff?

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Software By Rob

JULY 13, 2010

It wasn’t until the past decade that a designer or developer could leave the safety of a salaried position in pursuit of a career as a solo entrepreneur. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. 3 comments ↓ #1 Amber Shah on 07.13.10

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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. Instead of being able to justify a somewhat fixed salaried workday, you find yourself working longer and longer hours as client demands increase.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

For a small business with constantly-strained capacity it can be incredibly difficult to post a job, sort through the resumes, vet the candidates, check those references, negotiate salary and benefits packages, execute the employment agreement, and complete the HR paperwork for payroll, insurance, pension plan, etc.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

A business person may have equal or more valuable skills than a software person, but they are not universally understood in the simplistic way that software people’s skills are. Ask anybody what a software developer does and they can give you the one-sentence “makes software” answer.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Web Design. Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. Otherwise, you will have to offer actual compensation (read salary) in addition to corporate shares. Salaries/Bonuses.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

At a salaried job making $80k plus benefits your time is worth around $55/hour. I’ve been a web developer for 10 years and I cringe when I see that I need a module that’s not included…there goes two hours of my day searching, configuring and installing dependencies. 50 on a slice of pizza.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Practically this means that you’ll outsource (most likely off-shore) your design and development, you’ll rent your servers, you won’t have an office and you’ll have no salary. But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. Cant wait for more ;).

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Consider this the Year in Review for Software by Rob. Consider this the Year in Review for Software by Rob. December 23rd, 2008 | About this Blog , Micropreneurship , Software Development , Startups Building your startup? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun. It may wind up for sale on SitePoint , or it may be relegated to the bone yard of failed software products. Aside from working at Best Buy. Except for one thing.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place. 9 Rob on 09.30.10

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 3, 2009

My name is Ruben Gamez and I’m a 32 year old web development manager living in south FL. In my day job I manage a web development department; nights and weekends are spent working on my own product called Bidsketch. Ruben: Bidsketch is a web based proposal application made for designers.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Search for: Videos. The only problem is I haven’t found a problem or an industry – web, enterprise software, green tech, etc – where I feel passionate. However, i need a technical person (web developer) who can bring my vision to life. To what extent could I trust web design companies?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2016

Common acquisition expenses are: paid ads, staff salaries, CRM, marketing automation software licenses, sponsorships, content marketing, and social media. To illustrate the impact this question has, let’s look at this case study on software development company owner, Jerry. Regularly Review Your Customer Personas.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

You can go without these expenses for a short time while in startup mode, but if you plan to build a company that’s sustainable in the long-run you’re going to need to cover these expenses before you think about collecting a salary. Please, I beg you, pay someone to design your web site. Phone - $20/month for a land line.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place. 9 Rob on 09.30.10

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I was just looking at your web site. This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. Sjoerd Franken.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. a foundation.

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