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Costs for building prototypes

Over the past couple years, I’ve been serving as CTO for several startups that are now seeking funding. This overview of cost to build an MVP is about right. It might be shooting low for more complex projects if the team can’t agree what’s truly minimal. Also, I’ve only ever heard bad stories about hiring offshore teams to build prototypes.

How Much Does It Cost To Build An MVP? – Forbes

An MVP (minimum viable product) is defined as the smallest possible thing you can do to prove a set of hypotheses about a business idea, according to Lean Startup theory. There are different kinds of MVPs, depending on the business idea that you have.

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Acquisition is failure

I am not convinced this is universal, but I’m willing to go with it being the default position. I’m working on several startups right now in addition to my consulting work. The one that really inspires my passion helps therapists take structured notes, and when it’s successful, I hope my passion for it continue and we never need to sell it.

An acquisition is always a failure

I never intended to become a tech entrepreneur. Growing up in Baltimore, I was focused on Legos, Game Boy, my parents’ video camera, and DOS computer games. I learned Photoshop so I could manipulate photos, and HTML so I could publish them. When video cameras with FireWire ports came out, I learned Premiere and After Effects so I could edit home movies and make ridiculous short films with hokey special effects. I uploaded them to blumpy.org, my crudely named personal website.

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Job board exclusively for remote work

All jobs listed on HireThere.com are for working outside of a traditional office. I agree this is increasingly a benefit that programmers will seek.

The remote-only job board called HireThere.com

With traditional companies like Citibank and American Express on one hand, and cutting edge companies like 37signals, StackExchange, and Balsamiq on the other, a distributed team of remote workers is the future.

However, with more and more attention being drawn to remote working, there’s no dedicated job boards for it.

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How Free Services Make Money

Here’s a good list to scan if you’re working on how to fund your startup. The list probably could be refactored to be half as long–some of the ideas are really variations of each other. Anyway, I find it interesting that Forbes is re-publishing Quora answers.

How Do Free Services On The Web Make Money? – Forbes

How do Free Services on the Web Make Money? This question was originally answered on Quora by Balaji Viswanathan.

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The chilling effect of a “mother, may I” economy

The tentacles of spying state agents reach into all of our lives, but imagine having no choice but to invite a police detective into your home to open all your drawers on the off chance there’s something that could be turned into an indictment.

Fishing around for lawsuits

When the Department of Justice Antitrust Division sued to stop the merger of two beer makers last month, the complaint filed in court quoted more than thirty times from internal company documents.

The two companies involved (Anheuser-Busch InBev and Grupo Modelo) are private companies. How, one might wonder, did the government get its hands on their private internal documents, prior to making its first legal claim of wrongdoing?