Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling. Brings complementary skills and experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. They often aren’t great at planning development work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled? But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Passion for what they do. Look impartially from all angles and do the follow-up. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

With this fast pace industry the elegant design we see if websites, is sometimes lost in translation. He and his company, Rocksauce, make sure to add high quality design back into each of the apps they create. After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Ben Satterfield is the co-founder of TestFlight, an immensely popular piece of software for iOS (and now Android) which lets developers distribute beta copies of their apps to their users. TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers. What is Burstly?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first. You no longer need to travel to China or hire an expensive prototyping expert to mock up your new design. Building the prototype can be fun. Create and register intellectual property online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Passion for what they do. Look impartially from all angles and do the follow-up. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling. Brings complementary skills and experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

A simple differentiation is that a product plan is designed for internal use, to get the product out. The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Competition analysis. Market research.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled? But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. This is my third company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled? But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

A simple differentiation is that a product plan is designed for internal use, to get the product out. The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Competition analysis. Market research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Passion for what they do. Look impartially from all angles and do the follow-up. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2016

Kevin Smith: SolarReserve is a developer and technology provider for large scale, solar projects. We handle development activities, land issues, interconnection, power contracts, and more for both solar thermal and photovoltaic projects. We have a pretty big development pipeline around the world and in the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled? But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

At the same time, it’s a smart manufacturing decision, as American-made quality usually stands head and shoulders above outsourced competition. Like all of FreeWave’s products, Spartan hardware is designed and manufactured in the company’s Boulder, Colorado factory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Passion for what they do. Look impartially from all angles and do the follow-up. Marty Zwilling.

Software Review 92

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 92

InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

Shortly thereafter, we began developing apps and websites out of Brent’s garage. They created a futures exchange in which the contracts were based upon the outcome of political events. Greathouse: How difficult would it be for an existing site to change their designation? What mistakes did they make that you are avoiding?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

A simple differentiation is that a product plan is designed for internal use, to get the product out. The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Competition analysis. Market research.

Product 48

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 48

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. Amazon allowed 22-year-old tech developers to launch companies without even raising capital. I find this strange. And maddening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. Income statements are designed according to accounting standards that are designed to “match revenues & costs in the period for which they should be attributed.” I might have sold a $1.2

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2011

When you play Monopoly with your children, you can subtly underscore an entrepreneurial mindset in their gameplay which will ultimately help them develop valuable startup skills, as described below. Even though the game is hypercompetitive by design, your child will likely play with the same basic group of family and friends.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2015

My wife is an illustrator and graphic designer, and she built the brand. At the time, we developed a collective buying scenario for restaurants, where everyone paid to have delivery service. How does this compare with competition from the Uber and Lyfts of the world? How far along is the business? That's too expensive.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Outsource Development 40

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

A number of international versions were developed soon after its initial release, but America has consistently remained the bastion of Monopoly’s popularity. Monopoly is a great training ground to develop cash management skills. Just like in Monopoly, if this contract is broken, the entrepreneur can be thrown in jail.

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