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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

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There's a large number of on-demand services which have been appearing recently, to help people deal with almost every aspect of their life. Becka Klauber Richter is co-founder of the startup, and spoke to us about the company, which she co-founded with Kasey Edwards. Becka Klauber Richter: Helpr is an app for babysitters on demand.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

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Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Review the code being built. I've talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer. Is this person a CTO or a developer? Why Investors Should Demand This. Third party products are used appropriately.

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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

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I recently wrote a post about negotiating with suppliers called “ The End of the Mexican Road.” ” The post talked about how to find the lowest acceptable price & terms in a deal through testing. But what about when you’re negotiating with buyers and not suppliers? Your IT Reviewer.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. Talking about whether to raise more money or not, their VC allegedly said to them: “If you had more capital, could you get to the future faster?

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

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We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. High throughput.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? And certainly, if you are looking for Development, you can theoretically find equity-only developers and get things done, but that won’t be me trying to do that.

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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. We struggled with the differences between intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship, and I learned much about both. Internal legal reviews and required new processes were slow to finalize.

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