Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Why would someone pay $299 per user when there’s a perfectly suitable alternative available for free?! And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. 299/user for Vault vs. $0/user for Subversion? This lasted for about three months.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. The Thirty Second Sales Pitch. why some software companies that you’ve heard of pay a fair bit of money for similar advice. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation. Start Here If You’re New.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. press and use it to generate end user demand and then drive that demand into our sales channel. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.)

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

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

David Skok, who is a must read for all startups , explains that as a SaaS company grows, the size of the subscribers/customers/users who no longer do business with the company will also, organically, grow. Despite a steady stream of new users, SaaS startup Groove’s 4.5% While users who remained customers logged in 4.4

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I put together a one-page website, a list of 100 people to reach out to, and a cold email script that would make seasoned sales professionals cringe. I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. Most B2B buyers know this.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory. Think about that.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. In retrospect, it seems totally natural that Larry Ellison transformed Software Development Labs from a consulting business into a software company called Oracle. He even added retail stores. How was that possible?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Product leaders often believe it’s cheaper to buy software than build it. You don’t need a large development team or outside capital to build your own software from scratch. Gartner forecasts enterprise software spending will total almost $572 billion worldwide by 2022. But that’s not always the case.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

4- Description of our software. As procurement software, Tradogram helps businesses to “trade” with one another by managing the process of buying, selling or exchanging commodities and services. The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. 11- Inspired by the term software development kit.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

They provide the infrastructure, tools, and technical expertise for DoD users to successfully build and deploy their AI-accelerated projects. 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.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

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. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious.

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