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. It’s a great way to get your product or brand in front of lots of early-stage entrepreneurs and great mentors from Boulder.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Ressi estimates that the debt note now accounts for over 50% of all angel and early stage deals. Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”.

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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. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college. Israel offers a pool of developers unlike anywhere else in the world thanks to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors.

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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. We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.” Do you have thoughts on specifically how to restructure startups?

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages. Follow @TechCrunch. 2011 Holiday. Gift Guide. Crunchboard.

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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. 16:54): Why?

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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. He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. His passions are business process automation, surfing, and his new baby girl Maya. ?.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., Takeaway 3: Identify your team’s current learning style (especially among any existing tech talent or leaders, but also more generally across your early-stage team). Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.)

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

I have an early stage startup, but it’s hard to find people that understand that long term commitment. Join a startup. Learn how they attract investors, partners, recruiting. The next step – network with friends who have done it and they will lead you to investors, etc. What else do VCs provide besides cash?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

It is easy to use a cookie-cutter job description; we need software engineers, here’s what a great software engineer looks like. John Vrionis ( @jvrionis ) is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners who focuses primarily on early stage enterprise and consumer technology investments.

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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). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. . Jeremy Johnson.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. → Learn More. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Capitalize - Regular pitch events where early stage companies get direct feedback from local VC’s. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Northeastern IDEA Venture Accelerator. Olin College Foundry Program. Smaller and High Quality Meetups. PopSignal - My favorite regular tech gathering.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

According to the Dow Jones research, 43 early-stage funds raised $3.1 Madrona’s new $300 million fund — while the largest in the firm’s history — certainly qualifies in the early-stage group. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. The political instability and poverty are probably the leading factors keeping VCs and Business Angels away.

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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. I was wrong.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. . Jeremy Johnson.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. David Teten , Versatile’s founder, was previously a Partner with HOF Capital and ff Venture Capital, two early-stage New York VC firms. in idea-stage and side-hustle founders using a Convertible Income Share Agreement, or CISA.

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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. But in the early stages of a startup you are still trying to hone in on what exactly the problem is.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

For early stage startups it maybe a challenge to recruit a dedicated sys admin, but any good hosting company would be happy to carry this function for you, likely, for additional payment. December 27, 2007 at 9:31 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! : Startups!!! « de-Hao! [

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering. Part 1 How To Evaluate Early-Stage Web 2.0 Hence instead of focusing on the artist, the industry focuses on the art supplies to determine quality.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Platform Software Developer. Software Cloud Engineer III. Email Address.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

6c] Non-technical cofounder has MBA -0%: (this is my opinion) In the early days of a startup, an MBA doesnt help much. 7] Non-technical cofounder invests money -5% per $10k: This is an approximation based on a very early stage valuation of $200k. Execution is what matters anyway (see final assumption above for more). [6c]

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. client / Washington, DC ($500 Referral Reward) Developer/Partner / Rocket Whale, Inc.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

If you’re still in the early stages of your entrepreneur-education/journey, you may even think you need to protect your idea and not share it with anyone. Here are some learnings and what I immediately think about when I see a pitch: 1) Ideas are a dime a dozen…AND it’s important to stand out.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. SXSW Panel: Return on Inclusion: Investing in Diverse Startups Arlan ????

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not. That’s what K9 does.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The world has changed – software development, app dev, and software engineering are taking over the center of the conversation, and Drupal/PHP is taking over the lead. Big boy applications. And contact me if you want my help on anything Drupal or PHP… [contact-form].

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. The best way to describe my work is probably start-up CFO guy. I spend my days working with cool start-ups in a variety of capacities.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

It was a big change in how software and infrastructure was written. Existing software engineers and tech entrepreneurs needed to retool both their skills as well as their way thinking about how software should be set up and software business models. And it was a big change in business models.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

This leads to a set of questions: What is the role of a CTO in the early stages of a company, and does that role change later on as both the company and that individual matures? I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. How will I know when the need has arisen?

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Imagine you’re a highly-trained software engineer. I surmise this is something I might not need to think about in the early stages of developing an idea but I’d like to know more about this.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers.

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