ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. It can be even harder to develop the skills needed to not just survive in a startup, but to thrive. But there is more to it than that. Startups are businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

For example, if you run a tech startup , you will know how hard it is to find good software engineers. Not sales, product development, or fundraising. Market dynamics also play a role, with some types of candidates in shorter supply than others. Do you compromise, or do you keep looking?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

You can hire remote developers. 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.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money. Would you mind sharing them?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

A technical office in Israel enables tech companies to find and hire engineers and data scientists with meaningful, real world experience. Israel offers a pool of developers unlike anywhere else in the world thanks to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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David Cohen

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Hyatt, founder of Conduit Labs , gave a talk on Tuesday entitled “Off The Record,” about the predictive approach to product development. Shah, founder and CTO of Hubspot , spoke on Monday afternoon about inbound marketing for startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Integration risk is the term I use to describe the costs of having code sitting on some, but not all, developers machines. Maybe two different developers made changes to the same underlying subsystem, but in incompatible ways. Maybe two different developers made changes to the same underlying subsystem, but in incompatible ways.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. Yet a huge class of modern software projects are being developed in a very different context.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” Product Manager. Software Engineer. Product Designer. ” Software Engineers.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If your developer knows ruby-on-rails but doesn’t care about the application you are creating, then there is no guarantee that their work will be as precise or consistent as you need – or that they will go the extra mile. be the manager and product developer). Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company. I was their first full-time engineering hire and I helped build out the team and set the agenda for product development.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Paul Cheek, a serial tech-preneur, educator, and software engineer. This is John Jantsh.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Software developers are a hot commodity right now, and many of them know it, so theyre on the lookout for really stellar business people to partner with, not some run-of-the-mill, me-too idea having, 10k foot synergizer without any concrete sales prospects, marketing ability, or product experience.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Demonstrate that you can pull the trigger on things quickly — whether it be getting customers, hiring / firing employees, or product development. This is one of my favorite startup presentations of all time by Mike Cassidy on going fast. And convey this in your pitch.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

A great article by the Design Management Institute (DMI) created an index that quantifies the ROI when design thinking is leveraged through the product development cycle. Farouk is an Account Executive at Connected, where he partners with clients to drive business value through software engineering.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

While the big defense contractors did have a lock on the market, they had spent decades optimizing their business around winning guaranteed government contracts by hiring former Air Force colonels with good connections, rather than improving the product. SpaceX didn’t have to invent fundamentally new technologies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2018

Aaron Scholthauer, 32, a mechanical engineer who graduated from Johns Hopkins University, has been at SUN Automation for 10 years and is now manager of development engineering. Instead, he believes managers need to develop relationships with their employees in order to have influence and earn their respect.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. Applications are developed in silos, making it impossible to enable centralized functionality.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. What is customer development?

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

You see, in addition to being a fine example of a veteran software engineering leader, my neighbor Dave Thomas is also one of the top trainers in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (or BJJ) that you will find anywhere. One is through an outstanding teaching tool that he developed called the BJJ Technique Catalog, or BJJ Tech.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun. Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? " => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Rockstar v.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

There’s been ongoing discussion about the decline in demand for junior engineers. Skilled developers are now achieving much more with AI toolswork that once required entire teams just a few years ago. The highest use of AI is in software engineering, accounting for 37.2% Which Jobs Are Holding Strong (or Growing)?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Product leaders often believe it’s cheaper to buy software than build it. You don’t need a large development team or outside capital to build your own software from scratch. Poor project planning can lead to development cycles running over budget or over time. But that’s not always the case. And for how long?

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View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2016

One of David’s biggest gripes with waterfall and agile is that the development sprints inherent in these models become a point-driven “game.” In the process of creating the product, developers often get caught up in a competition around these points and use them to discuss productivity and success.

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