Archive for the 'entrepreneur' Category
How to get good off-shore developers - Part 2
June 19th, 2008Off-shoing your web-development is a great way to save money and, if you are bootstrapping a small start-up, it could be the perfect strategy to hang on to more equity and delay financing. However off-shoring your development is also fraught with risks, it is far harder to manage your development and communicate ideas, so it [...]
How to test your system with real users
February 14th, 2008Aroxo recently turned a major corner in its development, we moved from closed functional testing to using real live alpha testers, people who’d never seen Aroxo before.
Without doubt, this is one of the most revealing, painful, and valuable stages in creating your start-up, so I thought I’d blog about it.
When launching anything you want ensure [...]
How to get good off-shore developers - Part 1
December 14th, 2007A really effective way of boot-strapping your start-up is to off-shore and out-source your development. But doing this also carries risks, how can you be sure that you are going to get a developer who’ll see it through and has the right experience? This post lays out an effective process to find the right developer.
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A step-by-step guide to starting up
October 9th, 2007Ok, so you’ve got an idea, you’ve got a limited budget and you want to start your own company. To keep control of costs you’ve decided to off-shore the development. Now what do you do? How do you go from idea to launched system?
In this post I’ll detail your first steps towards launch. By the [...]
How to boot-strap your start-up
September 12th, 2007The aim of many entrepreneurs is to take a business idea and convert it into a professional and functioning business on a low budget. This is typically called “bootstrapping” and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers, but when done well can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having [...]
