Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. For IBM, the Personal Computer was a paradigm shift from their big business legacy, built with new technologies for totally new markets, and battleships turn very slowly.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Burn Rate 214

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

One of the biggest hurdles – particularly with medical devices, baby products, and food safety products – is how to successfully navigate regulatory standards where potential user and environmental risks of new features must be carefully assessed and documented. Focus on part selection and product level planning early.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Now when we run a promotion with our new partner and get a thousand users coming in at one time, it grinds to a halt.”. We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff.

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Web Technical Review Architecture Caching 200

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to. I knew my partners for 8 years before joining GRP.

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Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Pop-up technology has become more subtle, with the lightbox pop-up becoming the new standard (and also able to bypass pop-up blockers). Read on and let me help you decide… My Money Comes From My Email List The majority of people who will read this blog post will come from my email newsletter because I sent a message about this review.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

For many CEOs, competition with the tech giants an existential concern. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech. Commercial – a data/tech/commercial partnership or client relationship.

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Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

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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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. Partner with someone who is irrationally ethical, or a rational believer that nice guys finish first. Technical founders who don’t sell also use bad proxies (&# Harvard MBA!

Cofounder 101

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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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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE 40

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.

CTO 40

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This comprehensive insight from Sally provides a roadmap for startups to make informed decisions, ensuring a robust foundation for their sales development journey. SDR Hiring Checklist When establishing a sales development team in the early stages, a meticulous hiring process is paramount.

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Early Stage Sales Developer Development Team Review 78

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Twitter List Directory Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable!

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Developer HTML API Ruby 93

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. This is a better view than the standard report, but this tab is mostly for your boss (with mildly interesting data around engagement ) and for your IT/Dev team as they decide which platforms to optimize the experience for or prioritize first.

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Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 143

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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Software Review Development Team Review Later Stage Technical Review 67

thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So it all begs the question, if you’re not from a tech background do you even have a shot at starting a web startup? Non-Technology Driven Startups The first question to ask is, is your startup idea technology driven? Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Think about your own behavior: if you are like me, you hate having to deal with sales people, and greatly prefer to do your own research starting with search engines, and leveraging free trials, on-line videos, blogs, reviews, and your social network. Then you can go back into their customers and upsell them.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

20:05] Why wouldn’t you use a resource plan with your white label partners to some degree? [20:52] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Sometimes you might be using white label or outsource partners. I'm gonna lease you this, you know, cross-functional development team. Yes or no? [17:51]

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Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2021

All event data is put onto a blockchain (in this case using the Blockchain-as-a-Service solution from our partners Topl of Houston, Texas) for full transparency?—?not To ensure predictable performance our development team built a queueing layer between the users and the various blockchains. not as a hash, but the actual data.

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Metadata Texas Technical Review Houston 62

Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

Today, Aurora and Reinvent Technology Partners Y announced their agreement to merge. It’s a process that requires significant internal resources and a strong ecosystem of trusted partners. Aurora has also formed key strategic partners with some of the world’s biggest and most established transportation companies.

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Technical Review Advisory Board Cofounder Acquisition 28

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Only when you’ve completed your mock-up and been through several iterations with any other business partners, are you ready to move onto the next stage - documenting it in a functional specification The Functional Specification This document is the most important document that you’ll write for your business.

Web 40

Web AJAX Software Review Development Team Review 40

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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Israel Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

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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Silicon Valley Management Startup Hiring 60

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Charles Edge :: Partner, 318 Author :: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book April 16, 2007 1:37 AM Shashank said. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Here’s a review from Andrew Anderson from Malwarebytes : Andrew Anderson: “ Pros – Offers the best in-product segmentation available. Here’s a review from Johann Van Tonder of AWA Digital : Johann Van Tonder.

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Conversion 48

VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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Israel Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital 78

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2020

Brands, especially those that have never done traditional retail, like Jet or Away, are winning buyers before they arrive on a site by focusing on “experiences” (not just transactions) and partnering with influencers. Fera can even tailor elements like reviews to feature past buyers whose profiles align with those of current shoppers.

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eCommerce Sales Software Review Development Team Review 110

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. ability based on one of many technologies.

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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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