Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Fossil fuels won’t be able to compete on cost. The Energy Internet Emerges: We will be trading energy with each other through a new type of distributed energy grid. Global e-commerce, lower living costs and higher living standards will create a renaissance for non-city places of great beauty.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

When starting a new business you should consider the potential industries your company may have the best opportunity to compete in. How to start a non-emergency medical transport business. It’s often cheaper and more sustainable to build your app or software somewhere else. Resources for starting a transportation business.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. For phone interviews I recommend websites such as Collabedit to let you watch candidates code in real time. Keep candidates engaged.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. To sort facts from folk wisdom, I isolated some features that were universal among resumes and would be easy to spot by technical and non-technical people alike and then ran statistical significance tests on them.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where Airbnb recognized the value in another platform, Dropbox doubled down on the strength of its product as a distribution channel. The result?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Hack stars making app development and learning to code easier are abundant. Ouya is an open source Android-based gaming platform that is looking to compete with PlayStation and Xbox. Twitter cofounders Ev Williams and Biz Stone created another content distribution platform, this time letting users write more than 140 characters.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The trick then is figuring out what your exact solution is, and whether or not there will be demand for it on a scale beyond just yourself, or whether or not you’ll be able to compete, if you’re entering an already-flooded market, like the shampoo market. We’ll talk more about this in step three. What do your friends want?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Walter Frick - Harvard Business Review. Gridco Systems – Power Distribution Systems (backed by General Catalyst and Northbridge). Next major event?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So Nearly all customers choose the competing product, ajob.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

You often end up with lots of half-done experiments lying around, an infrastructure that isn’t built to scale, and a mishmash of code that needs to be refactored. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. Of course, we are mostly interested in the second type.

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www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Programmer Competency Matrix. Able to recognize and code dynamic programming solutions, good knowledge of graph algorithms, good knowledge of numerical computation algorithms, able to identify NP problems etc. Understands what assembly code is and how things work at the hardware level. Software Engineering. Programming.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. Free often wins versus buying a competing product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution. Matt Briel (01:33): Yeah, it's actually a really fun one.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link. Nobody ever stole our ideas. We have a start-up in the works.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. ” What does “execute arbitrary code” mean? Literally, it means that the attacker can choose to have your server execute any code they can dream up.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He wasn’t consciously giving a glib non-answer; he was understandably, desperately avoiding it. If you’re Oracle with 47 product lines in 100 countries and 20 languages with distributed teams of tech writers is this the best tool? click and competed with no other advertisers. But this was 2003 when AdWords was new.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

To my mind, it’s fear of the unknown that holds most of us back and not the thought of whether we’re competent enough or intelligent enough or whatever else we feel is needed to run a business. For example, Palo Alto Software focuses primarily on helping small businesses realize their dreams of starting a business.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Disturbing, because many people & organizations want to compete on analytics, but are not doing the right things or adopting the right thinking about analytics. The key in understanding leads with digital analytics often starts by using campaign codes. Bruce Clay gives a useful review for Google Analytics on his blog.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Consider this the Year in Review for Software by Rob. Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. ‘After all,’ they think ‘you code it up and sell it a thousand times – it’s like printing your own money! The third was something I hadn’t expected.&#

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? The programming language is important because we provide the source code with every purchase…which created one heck of a mess for us a few weeks back.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

The strongest foundations in business are those whose cornerstones are based on non-negotiable core values. Quality of work also improves because people who become virtual assistants have previous experience working as full-time employees and have decided to focus on offering services that fall under their core competencies.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Also offer discount coupon codes to twitter members. Point your readers to each blog site that reviews your product. Donate several of your products or services to a non-profit organization that is sponsoring a live auction and the proceeds will be donated to the charity. Get a Twitter account in your business name.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. We did due diligence on one another through resumes, reference checks, technical interviews, and spending time together (basically reviewing the items offered in the FounderDating application). White Day Hackathon. 9am – 6pm. ?San

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. Yep, build yr prototype – if you can code or convince some out of work or college level codehead to work for dirt.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Google is not descriptive of the company’s search core competency nor was it particularly easy to pronounce, spell or remember when the site was initially launched. Amazon – While arguably better than the company’s initial name, “Cadabra.com”, “Amazon” does not convey the company’s initial core competency of online book sales.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

The credit distribution is proportional to content consumption (I like page count and not time) and finally apply the rules based on position in the path. To provide a hyper-fast non-nuanced summary… please invest in: 1. I'm valuing different positions differently, with a heavy emphasis on the converting touch points.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Non of this academic stuff. Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). Sometimes I use Balsamiq, sometimes I code a prototype, doesn’t matter – just create something, then tell the world. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. It’s my hope that some of it can be useful to others, specifically other under-represented founders or non-traditional markets. (I swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t Several folks asked that I share our story here.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Also, yesterday the winner of the latest Crunchies was GitHub and #2 was Palantir, both non-consumer, big data organizer companies. That’s a really big deal, because that category of software, line managers and businesses have never actually used that software themselves. Some of these next big startups are in L.A.,

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

an image) and are frequently referred to as NFTs or non-fungible tokens. I’m guessing the next wave will center around creating other sorts of open, permissionless businesses and human organizations, more commonly referred to as DAOs or Distributed Autonomous Organizations. And manual migration is non-trivial for most users.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Understanding this, historically, the government has enacted a number of policies to improve access to public markets and home ownership, such as many changes to the tax code and legislation that famously made 401(k)s opt-out instead of opt-in (lesson: intelligent defaults can change the world). in addition to home ownership.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

The overwhelming majority of ecommerce site visitors are non-purchasers. That makes it even harder to compete with industry behemoths. As reports note , a strong brand is the best way for ecommerce companies to compete with giants like Amazon. Interviews deliver original content and can kick off distribution. Blog posts.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. As the lines of who we compete against are increasingly being blurred – Digital Demarcation – companies are beginning to compete horizontally.

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