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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

Both Sides of the Table

Your IT Reviewer. They’ll push you on your uptime SLA, they’ll push for harsher penalties for non-compliance, they demand security reviews … heck – if you’re small enough they’ll push for “ source code deposits.” Procurement (or Biz Dev Team or M&A Department).

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

There is a corollary to that advice, which is “doing the right things is more important than doing things right.&# Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. Similar with product features.

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Interview with Kevin Hell, EvoNexus

socalTECH

They get to meet the team, we do some due diligence, and have them talk to functional experts. CommNexus is the parent organization for EvoNexus. How to do fundraising, how to pitch a deal, how to think about managing your product, or managing your development team.

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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

socalTECH

So, we moved forward from there, and organically grew, creating a boutique agency. We've been working with him, and he's taught us a lot about the technology we're working with, and expanding our development team. Both of us went to UC Santa Barbara, and were working as nannies there.

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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. He felt that the decision process was very broken, and he wasn’t able to impact it from the bottom of the organization. Pricing information.

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Ten Startup Tips From Steve Jobs

InfoChachkie

That’s too bad ,” Steve told him, “ because I signed the inside, along with the other members of my development team. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”. Like Jobs, manage the obstacles that stand in your team’s way, rather than trying to manage your team.