We're adding In-House Development to Our List Of Services!

The best lessons are the ones that burn the most. My latest is a real doozy.

I was recently put through the ringer by a developer who insisted I create detailed requirements documents for every freakin' thing on my proposed site. How to login, what to data to collect, and what message to display when something went wrong. After a year and half of not getting anywhere, aside from really neat requirements documents, I fired the developer and went with another guy. The new guy didn't require a single document from me. He looked at images of what I wanted, asked I annotate some and took notes. A few weeks later he delivered a pretty close working beta that we used to fine tune the next set of notes he took.

Here's the difference, new developer asked why would I waste time developing such detailed requirements when he, like most developers, was going to use well-designed and well-tested plugin from a library of features, login included. He then showed me samples that allowed customization and included features neither one of us considered.

Bottom line and lesson I took, was find a developer who thinks like a startup. New guy wasn't interested in process, nor paranoid about finger pointing later. As a service-oriented developer, he took responsibility for documentation, a few hand notes and a drawing in this case, upon himself and started work immediately. It took us an hour to get requirements down and 5 weeks to deliver.

I've added new guy to my arsenal collaborators and now offer development work for your startup or growing business. From concept through web development, marketing and sales, we deliver. And we align all of this for maximum efficiency - saving you money and getting up and and running in a fraction of the time most others can.

So call us!

Entrepreneurial Course at MCC

As a business strategist, I charge $210 per hour. Not the best option for most cash-strapped startups. But because I know a few of them, like Satto Technologies, may have really high potential, I tend to let the hourly rate slip for the first few causal meetings. Great way to screen potential clients and to offer help to some folks who just need it.

I still offer these casual meetups at cafe's and co-working spaces. But I've also added a new strategy - I'm teaching a 2-day weekend course on entrepreneurialism at Manchester Community College's Viscogliosi Entrepreneurial Center. Great way for me to meet and help a large number of startups and save them a great deal of money.

So, if you have a startup that's struggling or considering starting one, I'd love to hear all about it, share my insights and offer resources.

BUSINESS The Entrepreneurial Sequence for

Business Start-Ups

CRN 20802 | Fee: $165 2 sessions, Saturday & Sunday | 7/25-7/26 10 AM-4 PM | MCC on Main

Instructor: George Constance

For full course description, see page 47.

https://www.manchestercc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015-Summer-Credit-Free-Catalog.pdf