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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Nascent startup markets are like fine wine, they take time to develop.

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How The IBM PC Made Me Appreciate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. For IBM, the Personal Computer was a paradigm shift from their big business legacy, built with new technologies for totally new markets, and battleships turn very slowly.

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

InfoChachkie

Although necessary, “stepping stone” approach of initially utilizing smaller VARs to enter new geographic markets can become problematic as your business grows, because large VARs often demand uncontested, broad, multi-country coverage. Do Not Execute an Ambiguous Statement of Work. Do Not Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price.

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Ten Startup Tips From Steve Jobs

InfoChachkie

We weren’t going to go out and do market research. That’s too bad ,” Steve told him, “ because I signed the inside, along with the other members of my development team. As Harvard Professor Michael Porter notes, competitive advantage is not derived by doing things, “better, faster, cheaper.” We built it for ourselves.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

Leverage a worldwide community to enable a perfect market for outsourcing activities like online research, writing, & content review. The MySpace product management and dev team, need to bite of smaller projects, get them out more quickly, and make sure they are exposed to everyone visiting the site.