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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app? Can you do a hybrid web/native application? 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? Reporting can be endless!

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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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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.