Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

If you have a software development background like mine, Im sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Software Secretaries. Grace Hopper developed the first compiler. Software coding was initially considered "woman's work," as it involved typing the commands onto punchcards, which was akin to taking dictation via a typewriter. Like all important social movements, the change begins with you.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. This seems very different from your background on software, how did you get into this? Our cost is very low, which allows us a key, competitive advantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

It has also brought about my favorite new term – Ramen Profitable. So, definition: when I talk about a business plan I’m not talking about a 40-page Word document outlining your market approach. That died with waterfall software development. I’m talking about your financial spreadsheet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As with real estate, it’s still about location, location, location. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Let’s cut costs by outsourcing all from this point forward.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Even though investors, like myself, have long made it clear that we invest in people, not ideas, new venture owners insist on talking about their latest “ million dollar idea ,” rather than their “ million dollar team.” Very few businesses can grow organically fast enough to stay ahead of competition.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2013

With software developed, tested and turned in, the results of UCLA Anderson School of Management’s DEV Contest were announced on Sunday afternoon to a room full of smiling faces. Obviously these folks were serious about winning this competition, and had no time to worry about who the guy taking pictures with his iPhone.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although the exact sequence of events is a bit unclear, it appears that Hacker News user "lukethomas"(who is unaffiliated with Divshot) was prompted to create the Hacker News post after reading a tweet about the initiation of the company's private beta. The posting resulted in 40points and about 30comments.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JULY 31, 2020

Enterprises and organizations are increasingly taking advantage of what the cloud has to offer to stay competitive and expand their services. In addition, take note of the amount of software being used, which is normally detailed by the software developer. Benefits of Increased Bandwidth. 1] [link]. [1] 1] [link]. [1]

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” If you’ve been involved with a number of software projects you already have an intuitive sense for this. I wrote about it in this post on The Urgency Addiction. CEOs are time-driven creatures.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. Founder Developer Gap I’m assuming that the founders understand what they generally want to do with the business and where the product should be going. How can we address this risk?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2013

Once selected, the app will use their phones GPS to locate the closest photo lab Pixicle works with and sends the images there where their prints will be ready in about an hour. So far we have 70% of the Android app completed and about 30% for iOS. Brandon is a co-founder and our lead developer. Any competition?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We talked with Eli Aizenstat , the founder and CEO of Beatshare�and still a student--as well as President and longtime technology vet Barry Lieberman about the startup. Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. What is Beatshare? That's how Barry came in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

As with real estate, it’s still about location, location, location. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Let’s cut costs by outsourcing all from this point forward.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

As with real estate, it’s still about location, location, location. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Let’s cut costs by outsourcing all from this point forward.”

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Tell us about Mobile Deluxe and the types of games you develop? The cool thing about MobileDeluxe, is you can get our games on any phone in the U.S. What kind of games do you develop? Talk about how you went from JAMDAT to Mobile Deluxe? Can you talk about how you managed that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One ”. 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. Passion for what they do.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Justyna Wójcik, our CEO, is a seasoned software developer and team leader. Before that, she was a technical team lead at Motorola, developing mission critical communication software. He is passionate about developing reliable online services and structuring data. What inspired you? Any funding yet?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

As with real estate, it’s still about location, location, location. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Let’s cut costs by outsourcing all from this point forward.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One.” 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. Passion for what they do.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

We talked with Dan to learn more about Scour, how it started, what he's hoping to do with it, plus learn more about the firm's hiring plans. For example, in Scour, you can do a search for shoes, and read comments about a specific shoe or shoe website, plus you can potentially engage users that left the comment. What is Scour?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2014

We talk about the telecom industry, the growing need for consumer choices, and his thoughts on what makes the perfect team. Considering the size of the addressable market (60M visiting the US, 20M Canada), their goal was to create products that allowed every Canadian entering the US to forget about roaming fees. But I digress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

Ask the candidate about things they have built on their own, and what they do to challenge themselves. If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ Ten Steps in Choosing the Right Startup Partner ”. 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. Passion for what they do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

Ask the candidate about things they have built on their own, and what they do to challenge themselves. If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Co-founder and lead software developer Anil Kumar was a led software engineer for WebEx. Our client software is a true browser plug-in (no Flash) that’s based on Google’s WebRTC open source project. How unique are you from the competition if you have any? What inspired you to come up with the idea?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TechZulu caught up with co-founder Calvin Schemanski chat about their upcoming launch, their product and why Long reviews suck. If you want more information about a restaurant, you can find short reviews, pictures and menus on the restaurant’s profile. Any competition? What is myfab5? Don’t like a restaurant? What inspired you?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Let’s talk about kids for a moment. I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

A week ago I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ How to Select an Ideal Startup Co-Founder ”. 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. Passion for what they do.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Despite the growing competition, Philips Hue light bulbs are still the kings of all smart, Wi-Fi enabled light bulbs. Let us know about them in the comments section. These color-changing wonders will literally transform your home, and all you need to do is screw in a light bulb. And it’s (almost) as easy as screwing in a light bulb.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

We'll use all the panel members' experiences to tell a "how to story" about bootstrapping to million. Software Labs: Petri Dishes for Tech Innovation. Most entrepreneurs fail because they start the business the only way they know how - thinking about. Pedro Galván, Software Guru magazine. Spencer Fry, Carbonmade, LLC.

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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. It specifically answers the first questions about role and how it changes as the company matures. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? Here's a dirty secret about most startups.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I will talk much more about Internet TV in a future post. I’ve talked before about problems I see with the US education system in both my post about Peter Thiel’s 20-under-20 initiative and also my review of Waiting for Superman. You’ll have to ask him about his work policies. And he makes it work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant.

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