Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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Software Review Entrepreneur CTO Hire Outsource Development 107

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace. That's what we do over the course of our two year contract. It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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Software Review Equity CTO Hire Outsource Development 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development CTO Coach 56

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. Customer also buy social proof because others are acting as strong references. We have 12 developers and they have 3. Please call our references. Customers buy solutions to solve their problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

Software Review 96

Software Review CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development 96

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

For children with a proclivity toward business, a newspaper route provided an invaluable opportunity to develop the following entrepreneurial skills: Punctuality – Newspapers had to be delivered on time, irrespective of the weather, the fact that Sunday papers can weigh several pounds each or the requirement to wake up at the crack of dawn.

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Web 2.0 Web Sales Outsource Development 222

Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

As enterprises outsource more of the business operations to hosted platforms, more emphasis needs to be placed on ensuring mission-critical applications are always accessible. To reach a goal of “five 9s,” start developing IoT monitoring procedures that are shared with your network team. References. Intermedia.

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Networking Southern California Outsource Development Startup 45

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

We wanted to bring together the babysitters and nannies in the community, and started working with them as contracts. How did you handle going from a background in child care, to developing and app and figuring out the technology side of things? Are your sitters W2 or contract employees?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

Software Review 92

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 92

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

Importantly, make sure that you retain IP rights to your custom work which needs to be part of the engagement contract. If not specified in contract you might find yourself with future litigation over IP. And chances are you’re in big need of a killer customer reference. At a minimum co-ownership of the IP.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. The initial contract was worth about $500,000 and the whole value of the contract would have been worth a couple of million over the years.

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. The initial contract was worth about $500,000 and the whole value of the contract would have been worth a couple of million over the years.

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Every contractor in our network goes through a very thorough vetting process, and we meet with every one of them in person, speak to their references, to make sure they are hardworking, reliable, and trustworthy. He's been doing contracting for the past ten years, and I have been watching from the side.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. Customer also buy social proof because others are acting as strong references. We have 12 developers and they have 3. Please call our references. They’re in beta).

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Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M That system allows us to arrange shoots and coordinate with contracted talent to produce that content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

You need to demonstrate innovative approaches, more knowledge, more productivity and superior results to get the references you need. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. It’s hard to make up for a low margin by increasing your volume of work. Networking and relationships.

Satisfaction 91

Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

I have written about people who live by strong social contracts in Humble Pride. We get referring site traffic. I am looking for Java developers and database experts. Over time, solutions like ours rank higher and will lead to more meaningful, quick answers to questions.”. I am a completist and I can’t stand unfinished business.

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Google Organic Search Sites Startup 264

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. The initial contract was worth about $500,000 and the whole value of the contract would have been worth a couple of million over the years.

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Startup Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review 151

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Don’t outsource the job. The exercise of developing your business plan — including validating your assumptions, identifying stumbling blocks, and building your financial model — will help you clarify your goals and give you a roadmap to guide you. It will also provide the crucial supporting reference to your executive summary.

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Summary Outsource Development Writing Outsource 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You need to demonstrate innovative approaches, more knowledge, more productivity and superior results to get the references you need. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. It’s hard to make up for a low margin by increasing your volume of work. Networking and relationships.

Product 91

Product Services Satisfaction Patents 91

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. What do we build in-house or outsource?

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CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

InfoChachkie

APRIL 13, 2015

This point is nicely illustrated by Albert Oaten, VP Market Development at SecureDocs. Rather than reducing your price upfront, contractually limit future price increases in exchange for an extended contract term. In many cases, you can stand firm on price by demonstrating that your overall cost is lower than the competition.

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Pricing Startup Sales SaaS 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

That part of the market is primarily driven by companies in what is referred to as lead generation. Thta''s something we''ve done a great job at with Vantage Media, which has been facilitating the development of people and the company where people want to live. How did you decide to get involved with the company? Why is LA key to that?

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Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company?

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company?

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Chandler Williamson: The technology we have is generally referred to as a high speed, flywheel system. It's a fairly straightforward system design, and is essentially what Urenco developed. In the New York Power Authority contract, the use was halfway between two substations.

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Design Training Southern California Outsource Development 138

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

But while universities are developing online content they are not fundamentally disrupting leaning because the method of delivery is not a new business model. But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations.

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Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2014

” It’s a compelling thought – especially when you consider the alternative: 2 year contracts, overage charges, hours of dealing with customer service reps. Sell it as needed and remove the need for long term contracts. They do this by getting a customer locked in on a long term contract and not worrying beyond that.”

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Mobile Startup Customer Custom 86

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

You can significantly lower the risk of a CPM deal, and effectively convert it into a CPA arrangement, by negotiating a guaranteed minimum number of referred visitors or customers from the CPM impressions. For instance, it does not make sense to develop an Affiliate Market presence until you have established an effective SEM campaign.

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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

InfoChachkie

MAY 23, 2011

As noted in Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid , exclusivity can kill a small company. Once you establish a non-exclusive partnership, you can reference it when other BDCs ask for excludesivity. Students expend small fortunes of their parents’ money to attend exclusive , private colleges.

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Technical Review Marketing Sales Competition 183

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Scale your funding requests to the value of your startup today, consisting of assets, contracts, and intellectual property you currently own.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

If you don't want to use Guava, then wrap the modifiable Enum{Set,Map} instances in Collections.unmodifiableSet(set) or Collections.unmodifiableMap(map) and throw away the direct references to the modifiable collections. Some developers don't know these classes exist. That's a topic for another discussion, though.)

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Java Class Ideas Writing 330

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If you’re at a large corporation, you have the ability to give a startup the first contract they need to break out from the crowd or at least give them their first pilot. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. years where I developed skills building distributed systems over networks.

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Startup Help Blogging Entrepreneur 352

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. I believe this makes Twitter the perfect ecosystem for development. How about if they knew how often I came to Vegas?

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