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36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! - ReadWriteWeb This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup. We hope that you will find these tips useful, but also please remember that they are based on subjective experiences and not all of them will be applicable to your company. These tips originally appeared as separate posts on the BlueBlog, the blog of AdaptiveBlue. 8 Software Engineering Tips for Startups Since software is at the heart of every modern startup it needs to be elegant, simple and agile. Tip 0: You must have code Working code proves that a system is possible, and it also proves that the team can build the system. Tip 1: You must have a technical co-founder Any startup starts with an idea and just a few people. Tip 2: Hire A+ engineers who love coding Until recently, building a large scale system that worked was like black magic. Tip 3: Keep the engineering team small and do not outsource A lawyer?
Valuation Class: Home Page For the first two decades that I taught it, this class was called "Equity Instruments and Markets", a title that never fit. This class has never been about instruments, nor was it about markets and I am not even sure that it was about equity . It was a valuation class, plain and simple, and I am glad that it has acquired that title. I hope you enjoy it, and find it useful, in that order. Everything you need for this class should be linked to this page. How to Write a Business Plan - Mahalo Writing a business plan is an easy way to help create a focus for your business and educate others about it. A well composed business plan can be used to procure a loan and get investors. If you don't know how to write a business plan, then this page will help guide you through the process, step by step. A business plan is best described as a resume for your business. It provides a description of your business as well as identifying goals and providing a road map for the future. It can be used to help you get a loan or investors and can be a way of informing your personnel, suppliers and others about your company. This page gives information on the most essential elements of a business plan including the Executive Summary, Company Overview, Market Analysis, Marketing and Sales Strategy, Operations Plan, Management Plan, and Financial Data.
DoughHound The Social Enterprise - What Works, and What Doesn't Last week in Reston, Virginia, the New New Internet conference took place, and the spotlight was on the adoption of new social technologies in the enterprise. One morning panel was moderated by Ryan Carson and featured Brad Feld, the Managing Director at the Foundry Group, Hans Hwang, VP Advanced Services, Cisco, and myself. During the course of our discussion, Ryan brought up a set of interesting questions: Should enterprises embrace blogging?What is the impact of Google Docs on the enterprises? The discussion eventually brought us to an even broader question: Why should enterprises go social, and what are the compelling reasons for adoption? The Need For Agile Enterprise As a rule, what is good for individuals is not good for companies and the other way around. Lately however, with the increasing speed at which our society operates, we are seeing that companies have had to become more agile in order to compete. Take the software vertical, for example. Self-Organization in the Enterprise
10 Ways to Build a Cult-Like Following By JK Ellis Author of Mind Control 101 Recently I was contacted by a very successful Internet marketer who asked me what I would suggest to someone who wanted to create a cult-like following. This is right down my ally so I gave him some very good advice that he couldn't wait to put into action but the question got me thinking. What steps are there for anyone who wants people to want his/her attention and wisdom? The result are 10 ways to build a cult-like following. 1. There is a marked difference between learning by instruction and learning by initiation. Most people give instruction. Learning by initiation is about creating an experience that makes the learning personal and visceral to the student. There are many things that you could simply tell someone and they would intellectually understand but they wouldn't “get it” as an insight. The subjective experience of the student is that the lesson is much more valuable because 1) they had to work for it and 2) it is felt more personally.
How Not to Die (as an internet startup) August 2007 (This is a talk I gave at the last Y Combinator dinner of the summer. Usually we don't have a speaker at the last dinner; it's more of a party. A couple days ago I told a reporter that we expected about a third of the companies we funded to succeed. Another way of saying that is that half of you are going to die. If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. It was really close, too. You may have heard that quote about luck consisting of opportunity meeting preparation. We've done this five times now, and we've seen a bunch of startups die. For us the main indication of impending doom is when we don't hear from you. Whereas if a startup regularly does new deals and releases and either sends us mail or shows up at YC events, they're probably going to live. I realize this will sound naive, but maybe the linkage works in both directions. That may not be so naive as it sounds. If this works, it would be an amazing hack. A variant is to stay in touch with other YC-funded startups.
10 Powerful Success Strategies - Stepcase Lifehack If you’re serious about creating lasting and significant change in your world – as opposed to merely thinking and talking about it for another year – there are a few things you might want to do in order to help make those intentions a reality… 1. Know what success is. If you don’t know what success is (for you), how can you possibly create it? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Watch out for the pigeons. Fire your Boss! The Successful Home Freelancer's Guide Most people, at one time or another, have a job that rewards their time and effort with wages or salaries. An increasing number of people, however, are becoming dissatisfied with that time-and-effort economy and seek the greater rewards that a results economy can provide. Indeed, more and more managers are abandoning the safety of company careers to become consultants in their chosen fields. Making the decision to start your own freelance business or consultancy from home is not an easy one. Here’s what we’ll consider: Are you ready to start your own business? Let’s get started! Are you Ready to Start your own Business? If you know yourself and know your enemy, in a hundred battles you will never fear the result. — (Sun Tzu, The Art of War, 400 BC.) Most consultants agree that consulting provides for them an ideal lifestyle. On the other hand, three of the main disadvantages include: Are you Ready to Start your Own Business? So, are you ready to start your own business? How did you go? 1. 2.
Five Killer Press Release tips for Small Businesses Let me tell this to you straight: most journalists will never write about your company or product. Why not? You are not newsworthy! When I say newsworthy, I mean something new in your business that someone besides you (and your team) cares about. So you know what I recommend? Coming up with a great story, essentially pre-write the story. Another thing: most press releases that news organizations receive are deleted or thrown away. Top Five Press Release Ideas Publish Case Studies, Data and Surveys If you have research to share, a press release is a great way to do it. Hopefully this inspires you to write your own press releases. Use these tips and write your own killer press releases – and you’ll get media biting. About the Author: Janet Meiners Thaeler is an Evangelist for OrangeSoda Inc. and the principal blogger for their corporate blog and Twitter account.