Software Business

Code performance versus simplicity. Delivery speed versus duplication. Flexibility versus maintainability—every decision you make in software engineering involves balancing tradeoffs. In Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs, you’ll learn from costly mistakes that Tomasz Lelek and Jon Skeet have encountered over their impressive careers. You’ll explore real-world scenarios where poor understanding of tradeoffs leads to major problems down the road, so you can preempt your own mistakes with a more thoughtful approach to decision-making.

Every SaaS company on earth is careening towards its next revenue plateau. It’s called a Growth Ceiling—a moment in time where growth stops, and you’re losing just as many customers as you’re bringing in. It’s not an opinion—it’s just how recurring revenue businesses work.

Excel is a spreadsheet software used by both businesses and individuals on daily basis to carryout basic tasks. The importance of this application is obvious in this 21st century as many organizations cannot operate effectively without making use of this great software. In this book, the author explains practically on how the software can be used. Even if you have not used Excel application before, this book will put you through. Among the areas you will learn from this book are as follow: Get at least a copy of this well explained book and thank the author later. Fundamental information on...

Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

Using stories from his time at Netscape, Apple, and Slack, Michael Lopp presents a series of small but compelling practices to help you build leadership skills. You’ll learn how to create teams that are highly productive, highly respected, and highly trusted. The essays in this book examine the practical skills Lopp learned from exceptional leaders - as a manager at Netscape, a senior manager and director at Apple, and an executive at Slack. You’ll learn how to apply these lessons to your own experience.

Attention all aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners! Are you ready to take your bookkeeping skills to the next level? Look no further than "From Scratch to Success," the ultimate guide to building and growing your own bookkeeping business. In this comprehensive eBook, you'll learn everything you need to know to start and manage your very own bookkeeping service. From understanding the importance of bookkeeping to assessing your own qualifications, researching your market, and developing a solid business plan, every step of the process is covered in detail. We'll show you how to ...

"Fierce and utterly compelling" An absolutely glorious study into how Agile and its pervasive commercialization have risen to such a toxic extent that it has poisoned the well of not just software development but all disciplines aching to be agile without a pause for some critical thinking. According to the dictionary the term agile means: to have the “agility to move swiftly, gracefully, accurately and with quick, easy grace;” The term Agile has become ubiquitous in the fields of Business and Industry, however, the term 'agile' in a technology context has its provenance in the Agile ...

This audiobook is a summary of the advice I’ve given to software engineers over the years–and then some more. This audiobook follows the structure of a “typical” career path for a software engineer, from starting out as a fresh-faced software developer, through being a role model senior/lead, all the way to the staff/principle/distinguished level. It summarizes what I’ve learned as a developer and how I’ve approached coaching engineers at different stages of their careers.

What if you could build a multi-million-dollar software business—without ever coding a single line? The SaaS Code reveals a proven, step-by-step system to create, scale, and sell a subscription-based software business that generates predictable, recurring income. Inside this book, you’ll learn: ✅ How to launch a profitable SaaS business in 30 days—without building software from scratch ✅ The $97 Golden Rule—why this pricing model maximizes revenue and customer retention ✅ The Automated Lead Engine—how to get paying users on autopilot with paid ads ✅ How to upsell high-...

Software was supposed to radically improve society. Outdated mechanical systems would be easily replaced; social media platforms like Facebook would bring people together; and generative AI would solve the world’s greatest ills. Yet in practice, few of the systems we looked to with such high hopes have lived up to their fundamental mandate. In fact, in too many cases they've made things worse. How did we get to this point? In Fatal Abstraction, Darryl Campbell explains that the problem is "managerial software".

Quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is increasing and continues to rise at a rate faster than for men. From entrepreneurs to corporate executives, from white-collar professionals to freelancers and part-timers, women are forging careers with considerable financial success. In Secrets of Six-Figure Women, Barbara Stanny, journalist, motivational speaker, and financial educator, identifies the seven key strategies of female high earners.

If you are a business owner, you just need to work on two key points to grow your company - Win more customers and do more business with your current customers. How you store and manage customer related data will determine as to how much do you understand your customers and how many leads do you eventually convert into customers for your business. HubSpot CRM is a robust and free product for storing and managing customer related data. HubSpot provides additional capabilities for customers with free and premium features in Marketing Hub, Sales Hub and Service Hub platforms. HubSpot can be ...

There are few people we admire more than the Founders and Leaders of software companies who have the courage, determination and, some might say, sheer madness to put their livelihoods and reputation on the line, to leave their own ‘dent in the universe’. It's a day to day, up at dawn, pride swallowing siege to lead such a business. And we know this for a fact because we’ve walked in your shoes many times. Over the last 25 years, we’ve been involved in the start-up, scale up and exit of several successful technology businesses, that between them have realized close to billion dollars...

Introducing Excel 2024 for Beginners! Do you want to learn how to use Microsoft Excel software? Do you need a step-by-step manual that will walk you through on how to use the spreadsheet program as a beginner? If you said yes, this book is for you. The book is written by someone who has great experience in Microsoft programs and has helped many users to be up and running in technology. You will learn from her wealth of knowledge contained in this great asset. This is a beginner-friendly guide that will give you everything you need to start using Excel program. Every step is accompanied with...

At most technology companies, you'll reach Senior software engineer, the career level for software engineers, in five to eight years. At the career level, your company's career ladder won't require that you work towards the next promotion; being promoted further is an exception rather than expected. This is also when many engineers are first given an opportunity to move into engineering management.

Why should you pay for a business plan writing software or pay a professional to write your business plan for you? Of course, there are hundreds of business plan writing software that are supposed help you write your business plan with ease but I personally don’t encourage the idea of using a business plan writing software without first learning how to write a business plan. You can be sure that there are hundreds of other people who would use the same software or templates and your business plans might end up looking identical – this is the fattest way to piss your investors off. These...

Start learning what AI is and what it is not. Gain unique knowledge on why computers will never become conscious. Understand how technology and AI impact human activities by mimicking, replicating, and augmenting tasks. Learn about what can make AI beneficial for all and what can make it detrimental. Finally, learn how you can harness AI to improve your life. You have AI in your pocket. If you have a smartphone, you are interacting with AI applications. But you have little say in what type of AI will be built. Your only leverage is voting with your dollars about what AI-built technology you...

Everything you need to ace the ITIL ® Foundation Exam The ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) exam is the ultimate certification test for IT management professionals. If you are among the nearly quarter-million IT managers worldwide who will sit for the exam this year, the ITIL Foundation Exam Study Guide is one resource you don’t want to be without. It provides you with all the background information, expert in-depth reviews, learning aids and practice, practice, practice you need to pass the test with flying colors. Completely up-to-date and organized around the ...

Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era - the Golden Age of Apple. Ken Kocienda offers an inside look at Apple’s creative process. For 15 years, he was on the ground floor of the company as a specialist, directly responsible for experimenting with novel user interface concepts and writing powerful, easy-to-use software for products including the iPhone, the iPad, and the Safari web browser.

The iText story, told by its original developer. After a quarter of a century in IT, Bruno Lowagie (°1970) decided to share his experience in a book. Entreprenerd is the chronicle of his personal story as a software developer and entrepreneur against the backdrop of a fast-paced technological evolution. From overcoming his fear of going into business to bootstrapping a multi-million-dollar company, this compelling memoir is perfect for anyone who is invested in building a business with innovative technology. What the readers say: Joseph "JJ" Jacks, Founder at OSS Capital and Open Core ...