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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Registration Do you plan to support Google Sign-In, Facebook Connect, or similar 3rd-party authentication? Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? How big is the anticipated development team?

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance. I certainly did in my first company.

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Startup Runway Length Depends on Your Burn Rate

Startup Professionals Musings

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. There’s tremendous leverage in learning to use Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and how to Google for sample contracts and the latest tax changes. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year.

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High Burn Rates Result in Short Startup Runways

Startup Professionals Musings

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. There’s tremendous leverage in learning to use Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and how to Google for sample contracts and the latest tax changes. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year.

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Don’t Get Burned By Your Startup Burn Rate

Startup Professionals Musings

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. There’s tremendous leverage in learning to use Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and how to Google for sample contracts and the latest tax changes. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

I never built Google. I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to. I’ve acknowledged that many times.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies.