Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Gone are the days of required $50K computer servers onsite, with big software license fees up-front. Use the cloud and subscriptions for computing technology.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I know that their are independent software companies now focused on this like UserVoice and Get Satisfaction.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months. Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). Another example. version of their product was.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Hopscotch, led by Laurence Sotsky , has built software which enables sports teams, venues, and others to rapidly create mobile apps for their fans. Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. How did you get into this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Gone are the days of required $50K computer servers onsite, with big software license fees up-front. Use the cloud and subscriptions for computing technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

A senior marketing director that will run online marketing, customer acquisition, and customer development efforts, 2. Several junior sales associates to handle online customer acquisition and orientation; and, 3. Senior and junior Rails and mobile (javascript) developers familiar with b2b software.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

SaaS – or Software as a Service – platforms are all the rage. Essentially a business model where software is licensed and distributed from a central location, SaaS companies can now be found in telecoms, human resources, and more. Here are four that are blazing trails right now: Quintype.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Features that were very difficult and expensive to program yet he found later that his customers could care less about his cool features. What IMVU thought was game changing technology was not why customers used the software. IMVU wasted time and money building stuff that did not drive sales.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations. So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

For many disabilities, empathic developers have provided new utilities that improve certain functions for the iPhone or Android. While it largely depends on your disability, application diversity gives users the versatility to use these different utilities at their own merit and accommodation.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Paul Graham on trends for the future - Business of Software Blog , August 25, 2010 Paul Graham spoke at last year's Business of Software conference. August 20, 2010 They say people won't pay for content.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent - Software By Rob , November 4, 2010 No link from TechCrunch, write-up on Mashable, mention by Leo Laporte, or Tweet by Ashton Kucher is going to make your business. This post is an accusation.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

That died with waterfall software development. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small? Ditto for enterprise software companies. It’s “lifetime value&# of a customer. Do so at your peril.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. The Phantom Sales Forecast – Failing at Customer Validation - Steve Blank , July 22, 2010 Startup CEO’s can’t delegate sales and expect it to happen.

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