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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance. I had my operations team telling me it was too hard for them to run analytics unless we built in our new BI platform. What did he know?

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3 Mistakes Software Developers Make That Can Cost You Your Business

Inverted Software

At Inverted Software we often help our clients manage offshore and onshore development teams. Our proprietary processes and unique experience helps us evaluate and correct software development practices that have proven inefficient and instill practices that insure productivity and success. Miscalculating Financial Data.

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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

Both Sides of the Table

Your IT Reviewer. They’ll push you on your uptime SLA, they’ll push for harsher penalties for non-compliance, they demand security reviews … heck – if you’re small enough they’ll push for “ source code deposits.” Procurement (or Biz Dev Team or M&A Department).

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ConTraps Part III – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

InfoChachkie

A more complicated negotiating point involves IP that is created in the course of the parties’ collaboration. Guard against a preclusion that would deny you from utilizing the IP developed during the course of executing the agreement. This is generally a straightforward and uncontested provision.