Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.
Version One Ventures
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
But as the start-up scales and you hire employees, your day-to-day is taken over by more managerial tasks, like hiring and managing people, running company meetings, etc. It’s unusual to hire a non-founder CEO early in a start-up’s life because it will most likely fail. There’s typically little choice for a founder CEO.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. Instead, they find options and can communicate them to everyone in the company. Find the 80/20 - this was my favorite part of the job. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. Especially w.r.t.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Just change it.
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 25, 2010
The path to our involvement with the company dates back to last December, actually, when I attended a Gilt Groupe “Expert Talk” run by Josh Knowles, formally their VP of Engineering. Personally, I’m incredibly psyched about the scope of the vision and feel very lucky to be working with such a promising young team.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 18, 2021
In this article, you’ll learn what makes a compelling demo. We’ll look at how Slack has also done this with fewer words in its real-use demo later on in this article. From the Flywheel dashboard, you can quickly find any site you’re looking for. As for the demo video, it’s delivered by Kajabi’s VP of Engineering, Jeremy Saenz.
firstround.com
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
I was their first full-time engineering hire and I helped build out the team and set the agenda for product development. When you’re at a large company however, especially as a software engineer, it’s easy to get disconnected from the business side of the organization and its direction. Read These Next.
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