Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. But I loved reading them and so did my team. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies. 15 minutes.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Announcement: Square lets employees work from home permanently. The technology is mature enough that working from home works pretty well. Then we set monthly OKRs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Heres my diagnosis of his problem: He has some automated tests, but his team doesnt have a continuous integration server or practice TDD. And has the tension goes down, it will be easier to get the whole team (including the MBAs) to embrace TDD and other good practices as further refinements.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When a startup encounters difficult technical problems, this is the guy you want solving them. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. All is not lost, though.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. Have an account? Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

You may well have to trade-off your travel dreams versus your tech startup requirements. As awe-inspiring as living on a remote tropical island sounds, there may not even be electricity between certain times of day due to rotating power scheduling whereby a town only receives electricity for a few hours daily.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We want to make sure that every time we match an engineer with a company, individuals get up to speed and seamlessly integrate into their new team as quickly as possible. Here’s how we do it: Remote Developer Team Integration Done Right. New engineers should also know when performance reviews will happen. Mundane Details.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

The choices for how to spend your time or dollars fall into two buckets: Site improvements, such as new content, on-page optimizations, and fixing technical SEO errors. For example, a worthwhile program investment is training your editorial team on URL creation because preventing technical errors takes less time than fixing them.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. He can be technical, but he must be able to wield the tools of influence. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ).

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

From time to time, Ill address information technology, and how it impacts business and daily life. Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do? The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Everyone in the technology industry seems to agree that people are paramount, yet nobody seems to be on the same page with what the people organization­—Human Resources—should look like. The Employee Lifecycle. The best way to approach management quality assurance is through the lens of the employee lifecycle. How do you know?

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

I share the column with my colleagues Jack Sinclair and George Bilbrey and we cover how to approach the business of email marketing, thoughts on the future of email and other digital technologies, and more general articles on company-building in the online industry – all from the perspective of an entrepreneur.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I'm gonna lease you this, you know, cross-functional development team. Feel free to give us reviews. Also, did you know that we had created training, marketing training for your team? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show?

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Peter: You might want a manager who then takes care of, let’s say, the marketing team and the development team separately, when in the past, that was a single person. Jonathan: “12 Signs, Me Need to Hire a Manager.”

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. In the old model of Israeli startups, many Israeli executive teams would hire a vice president of sales in the U.S.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

Igor, what do you think about the technology empowering vendor management systems ( VMS)? Let’s have a look inside of the technologies which are used to empower all great and useful services provided by Transformify. In this article, we unveil some points about our software development approaches. Payment Services.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. More comments at the end.

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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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