View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Included in our recent investments in this category are both Dunwello (rethinking how employee feedback and reviews are delivered) and a stealthy investment in NYC empowering software engineers. Step-Function Ad Tech. Examples include the current rise of native advertising and the fundamental platform shift to mobile.

Seed Stage 272

Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

From entertainment to healthcare, companies use big data to track user interaction and customize life experiences. In a recent report, the BLS includes new management, teaching, and software engineering positions that focus on data analytics. Software engineers alone cannot simply design new apps and programs willy-nilly.

Analytics 124

Analytics Software Engineering Russia Software Developers 124

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect. Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. If we’re smart we’ll cross-sell them one of our other products.

Video 190

Video Silicon Valley RSS California 190

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Get customer input. People design their products in a box assuming that they’ll show customers later and get feedback. Interview customers to better articulate their problems. It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. DO NOT start with product, start with the market.

Founder Vesting 365

Founder Vesting Intellectual Property Stock Options IP 365

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

New data-powered solutions give companies that would ordinarily be too large to customize their offerings the insight to do so. SMBs falsely assume that custom analytics platforms and data science is too complicated. One example would be generating order confirmation emails after a customer completes a purchase online.

Artificial Inteligence 164

Artificial Inteligence Analytics SCRUM Cofounder 164

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Software Engineer Steven VanRoekel CIO Dan Greenberg Co-Founder & CEO CHECK OUT THE AGENDA. > Nicole Lazzaro President Udi Nir CTO NEW! Seth Sternberg Co-Founder & CEO Scott Chacon CIO Kevin Hale Senior Product Manager NEW! Juan Diego Calle CEO Dharmesh Shah Co-founder & CTO Ross Snyder Sr.

Lean 165

Lean Cofounder Startup Software Engineering 165

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

They’re getting their first customers with minimal technology, and often no code at all. They’re jumping right in to serve customers in any way possible – heading right for their first paying customers. They’re jumping right in to serve customers in any way possible – heading right for their first paying customers.

Cofounder 167

Cofounder Artificial Inteligence Startup Widget 167

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

That’s what former software engineer Jamil Khan has done with his new company, North Aware , in manufacturing its Smart Parka. We wanted to ensure that the Smart Parka was manufactured with high-quality materials and in a manner that was in harmony with North Aware’s values and the values of our customers.

Founder 189

Founder Pakistan Software Developers Software Development 189

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2012

Founded by interaction designer Brad Damphousse and software engineer Andrew Ballester, GoFundMe was first conceptualized back in 2008 when both were driven by personal tragedies that led to want to use their talents for good. The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters.

San Diego 176

San Diego Colorado Software Engineering Bootstrapping 176

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2019

For many remote (and even regular) companies, company culture is something ethereal and abstract: while the most important metrics (customer engagement and satisfaction, employee turnover and retainment) are closely monitored, features like company culture are often neglected. by Denis Kryukov from Soshace.

Balance Sheet 159

Balance Sheet Web Development Software Engineering Retention 159

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

As an example, the reasons we provide to prospective engineers are 1. impactful work (we point to specific features that are being used by 100s of customers) and 3. For example, if you run a tech startup , you will know how hard it is to find good software engineers. cutting edge technology (WebRTC), 2. Be Specific.

Cofounder 164

Cofounder Elevator Pitch Hiring Dividend 164

David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi! I’ve just launched a new Meetup and online community I’m heading up with David. We posted on our site a more in-depth overview of ff’s Tech Platform.

Private Equity 113

Private Equity Equity Cap Table Venture Capital 113

Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. The resources required to start a company vary significantly , depending on the type of company and growth rate anticipated by the entrepreneur.

Angel Investor 179

Angel Investor Venture Capital Valuation Software Engineering 179

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2013

And yet the number of software developers in NYC who work at startups has probably grown tenfold in the last eight years, leading me to ask the question of whether or not putting code in the classroom will make the biggest impact on innovation in our community. Don''t get me wrong--I think software literacy is extremely important.

CTO Hire 139

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Developers Software Development 139

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

The best software engineering companies always prioritize exploring all of the possibilities to find the most accurate solutions as they can. Many companies and organizations are up to develop the custom analytical and platform to find the insights. Some of them specialize in the software research processes.

Artificial Inteligence 107

Artificial Inteligence Software Engineering Analytics Engineer 107

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

It's challenging to build, design and deploy software. It's also challenging to attract and retain a loyal community of customers and users. Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software.

Cofounder 121

Cofounder SCRUM Founder Widget 121

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Is this for VIP customers or everyone?). Think about what your sales, marketing, customer success, or any other team will need in terms of understanding the feature being released, and how to answer any questions they might face. Shipping software is like a muscle, the more frequently you do it, the easier it is to execute.

Metrics 147

Metrics Software Engineering Software Sales 147

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2013

Mike at Born To Sell : “We had over 100 customers on our first day. Mike Scanlin runs Born To Sell , a website dedicated to helping investors generate more monthly income from stocks they own, offering a ‘covered call screener’ Previously Mike was a venture capitalist, investment banker and software engineer.

Investment Bankers 69

Investment Bankers Customer Networking Software Engineering 69

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Either way, custom software development is an effective way to build brand awareness and give your business a competitive edge. In order to bring the most value to your business, it’s important you explore ways to enhance your customer experience. Out of the Box vs Custom Software. Source: Pexels.

Developer 100

Developer Offshore Software Developers Software Development 100

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. Taking My Class. Hear Eric explain what they learned.

Lean 120

Lean Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder Channel 120

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Customers enjoy online shopping; their demands create enormous opportunities for eCommerce company’s growth. WordPress themes vs custom solution. However, if you strive to highlight your exceptionalism, develop a unique design and cater to customers’ needs in a better way, a simple theme won’t be enough for you. Hourly rate.

eCommerce 113

eCommerce Software Developers Software Development Hosting 113

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Software Engineer Dave was Talking To: “Blah blah blah, five minute explanation of all the things that he was struggling with, why everything was difficult, what the risks were on timing, blah blah blah, why the client was giving mixed signals and changing things, and can’t I have a faster computer please? CTO: “No&#.

Software Engineering 137

Software Engineering Cloud Engineer Software 137

YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2016

She started her professional career as a software engineer in the Avionics Laboratory at McDonnell Douglas and later worked for Southwestern Bell, ultimately leading a software project for their largest customer at the time – the state government of Texas.

Cloud 100

Cloud St. Louis Software Review Technical Review 100

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.

Agile 76

Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 76

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. Yet when I talked to my venture capital friends, they said, “Well, that’s just how startups work. Would you mind sharing them?

Silicon Valley 133

Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital Customer Development 133

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

San Francisco 155

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

They live where the top customers live. They can put a face on the organization, establish relationships with prospects and customers, and provide immediate, local support when needed. A technical office in Israel enables tech companies to find and hire engineers and data scientists with meaningful, real world experience.

B2B 100

B2B San Francisco Israel Semantic 100

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Step 1: Figure out the LTV (customer lifetime value). He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. LTV ­ CAC = ROI. CAC is tricky.

Belarus 137

Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2018

There isn’t a single software project where price doesn’t matter. Even when the customer has money to burn, they would rather get more for the same price. This was validated when we re-wrote those parts in React Native or mobile app technologies and saw metrics which showcased more engagement from our customers.”

Mobile 147

Mobile Developer Open Source Software Engineering 147

www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Software Engineering. Has written custom macros. Reads tech/programming/software engineering blogs and listens to podcasts regularly. 2 n (Level 0) n 2 (Level 1) n (Level 2) log(n) (Level 3) Comments. Knows keyboard shortcuts for most used operations. J Date, Thinking Forth, Little Schemer.

Software Review 108

Software Review Technical Review SQL API 108

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Make your site easily accessible.

Small Business 123

Small Business Web Design Marketing 123

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

This is what your potential customers will first see when they visit your website and is often the link listed on various directories like Yelp. Think about your potential customers. Remember too that many customers will find your restaurant’s homepage after reading reviews, so keep the content on your homepage focused and short.

Web 127

Web Design Flash SEM 127

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Make your site easily accessible.

Small Business 122

Small Business Web Design Marketing 122

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2013

During my senior year, I took “Startup Essentials for Software Engineering” (taught by Zach Nies of Rally Software) and I can confidently say it was the best class I ever took at CU. We learned how to do customer development, conduct empathy interviews, and build a real MVP (not just an alpha version).

Startup 131

Startup Vesting Cofounder Lean 131

Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc. At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc. The country experienced the worst of an earthquake and coronavirus outbreak.

Technical Review 102

Technical Review Croatia San Francisco Software Review 102

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

While there are some services that are commonly outsourced, such as customer support and software engineering, there are actually hundreds of other tasks that can be effectively done by outsourcers, thereby helping to scale your business.

Audio 113

Audio Lead Generation Software Engineering Social Media 113