Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 15, 2017

Source: Data Scientists Are Analysts are Also Software Engineers , William Whipple Neely. It turns out that a data scientist is both analyst and software engineer (and everything in between) as Neely’s presentation was aptly titled “Data Scientists Are Analysts Are Also Software Engineers.”

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Diego Basch

APRIL 28, 2012

[Originally posted on July 25, 2011 on the IndexTank blog, now down. There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. The point of an engineering interview is to figure out if you want to hire a person or not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 13, 2012

I woke up this morning to a post from Fred Wilson titled The Academy For Software Engineering. In it Fred announced a new initiative in New York City called The Academy For Software Engineering. I expect efforts like The Academy For Software Engineering to take this on directly.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2018

IoT also impacts organizations by creating new positions and job descriptions such as Chief Internet of Things Officer (CIoTO), IoT Architect, IoT software engineer, Business Designer, IoT Stack and platform Developers and more. Existing jobs are changing too and some become more important.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Engineering/QA. For the vast majority of software startups, the actual code / development process is infrequently a competitive advantage; ergo, you ought to consider outsourcing.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In this blog post, we will explore five industries where freelancing can be lucrative. Alternatively, you can also write content for websites and blogs. Due to the increased demand for their services and expertise, many software engineers and programmers have noticed a surge in their net worth growth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 2, 2015

7 Steps to Optimize Your Blog Posts Like a Pro written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. I’m not a web design guru; I’m no software engineer or web developer. I’m not a web design guru; I’m no software engineer or web developer. Step 4: Proofread.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. Irony, hey?).

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 9, 2011

My long time friend Matt Blumberg , the CEO of Return Path , wrote a blog post today titled A New Kind of Partnership for Return Path. In it he talks about his recognition, as Return Path has grown (they are now around 250 people), of the gender imbalance in the software engineering team (women are around 15% of total engineering team.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 23, 2022

White Hat Security also has a blog that covers various topics related to web application security. Google hacking, social engineering, and footprinting are just a few of the tools that can be used to obtain this data. This can be done using a variety of methods, including Google hacking, social engineering, and footprinting.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2010

As Fred Wilson likes to say, often the best content for blogs is in the comments. They don’t all need to become software engineers (never mind that I think most software engineers today, aren’t) but a basic understanding of how to build something simple and useful to them.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

I haven’t blogged about GrabCAD much here at AgileVC in the past, but we’re excited to be invesetors in the company. Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. million times.

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Diego Basch

JANUARY 28, 2012

This view has been debunked decades ago; this analogy was frequently seen as an aspiration for the future when I did my Master in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon in the late nineties. A new software project is more like this: – You are an inventor. If you need a bridge, you gem install bridge or extend bridge4j.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives.”. Software Engineer. ” Software Engineers. Data Analyst.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2013

The reason this was possible is that during development we befriended the owner and editor of the most influential blog in our niche. By incorporating an expert into our design process early on, we got the benefit of announcing our new company/product on his blog. Do you have a great story about how you did it?

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Transformify

MAY 15, 2023

And although the competition for finding top talents is tough, causing some recruiters to snag up the first interested software developers with hazy relevant experience, getting the right talent is still more crucial. And the only way to do that is by being creative and strategic with your approach to hiring software developers.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Running a company blog where I shared case studies and stories from company life has been a smart move. Use scheduling software for social media and be consistent. Run a company blog where you share project news and show the company life at its funniest or most exciting. Manage your growth.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2014

There has never been a better time to be an engineer, with companies feverishly competing to recruit the best and brightest. But while some engineers may be motivated to work for the highest bidder, most are driven by something more intangible, according to VisionMobile survey data: They want to change the world. Lytro (3.9 Lytro (3.9

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

No questions being asked ( Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything ) Rest of team says - “I’m not sure where we stand.” “I’m And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. The last 10% takes the other half.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I think I’ll avoid all the “ are super angels colluding “, “ no they aren’t “, “ go fuck yourself and stop talking horseshit “, and “ guys, quit being narcissistic and do something productive &# blog chatter today and focus on something that came up yesterday.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

And it doesn’t help you much in search engine optimization. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. Remember also that you’re not just designing for search engines – people also prefer good organization. The photo you took with your iPhone at 11pm isn’t going to cut it. People hate it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. I hope you take something of value from this blog. Eric, love the blog. Thanks for your professional blog. So thats me, your author.

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2017

Last week I had the honor of speaking at the “Engineers turned Entrepreneurs” panel at the 3 Day Startup Global Roundup. Having graduated as an Electrical Engineer and worked as a Software Engineer at IBM, I felt I perfectly fit the bill. Note that got left by a customer. More than that.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

For many startups, this was the secret to massive success : David Quail is a super talented software engineer, with one exit already under his belt. To most of us, the WordPress brand connotes a free blog, or a simple way to create a content website for non-technical folks. Can a real person perform these tasks manually?

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Subscribe via RSS population: Blog. I shared these tips with the PIE mentors and a few of them suggested I turn it into a blog post. Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Platform Software Developer. Software Cloud Engineer III. 3 Comments.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) These companies don’t have search engineers on staff.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. This may sound shocking, but sales people are different than engineers and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

“You Don’t Need Rockstar Engineers” with Dan Murrel Jr and Karen White @ BigCommerce Once upon a time in computing, it was thought that in addition to junior and senior software engineers, companies needed superhumans that could do the work of many: the mythical rockstar engineer. You don’t need rockstar engineers.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

VentureFizz: Comprehensive newsletter with funding announcements, best local blog posts, and other local tech happenings. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. See his innovation economy blog and follow him on Twitter. Bijan Sabet – Spark Capital ( blog , @bijan). Places to Hang.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

In the spirit of Fred Wilson’s awesome blog series MBA Mondays , I’ve decided to write a series of posts about this and asked for suggestions. Last week I expressed my frustration with the current lack of financial literacy that I see all around me. Our first substantive post will be up next Friday.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) These companies don’t have search engineers on staff.

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