YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

Africa is not known to generate many technology talents – the country is far more prolific in its music, sport and art – but here’s one young African who intends to buck the trend. His first foray into technology was in 1995, when Koutonin, along with a few friends, created one of Togo’s first news website. .&#

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

No questions being asked ( 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder ) And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. How strong is product management? It''s hard to manage a development team when you are not very technical.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 14, 2017

Today, the technology necessary (affordable batteries with sufficient range) for them to be a viable business have all just come together. Each level of autonomy requires an exponential amount of software engineering design and innovation. But when technology disruption happens (electric drive trains, autonomous vehicles, etc.)

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

When International Technological University’s CTO Kranthi Lammatha was a boy in the Indian farming village of Kasipuram, he would walk nine miles to get to school every day and another nine miles to get back home in the evening. In 2013, ITU funded Kranthi’s proposal for what is now known as the Education Management System (EMS).

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

While all three of our most recent investments built on this foundational idea still remain stealthy, everyone utilizes connected technology to uniquely deliver a service or bundled product. Step-Function Ad Tech.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2019

Remote teams work from the same office and include a wide range of specialists – UX designers, solid software engineers and project managers. With remote teams, you can hire a vendor if you don’t want to hire engineers personally. How to search for A-players for your remote technology team?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Build a Talented Team of Technology and Business Professionals. Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. It fine-tunes the processes needed to properly manage these teams and execute projects.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2020

Roads, streets, bridges, metro lines, and huge skyscrapers everything that we see from the business and corporate buildings to malls for entertainment, is just because of the marvels of civil engineering. In the future, we will witness the role of civil engineers evolve even more as technology is evolving everything and everywhere.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Software development is all about managing complexity and the bigger and more mature the codebase gets, the more complex it gets. Here''s the simplest form of that cycle: Week -1 - Planning/End-of-Cycle - Software engineers are planning: writing specifications, doing light prototyping, and experimentation.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

With technology growing more rapidly than ever, companies in all industries find themselves primarily focused on staying ahead of the curb. training materials, company swag, and technological equipment) are placed in one easy-to-access spot. Use Technology to Streamline Onboarding. . Get Systems Firing on All Cylinders.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

Patients also take advantage of this technology. In a recent report, the BLS includes new management, teaching, and software engineering positions that focus on data analytics. Finally, software engineers use data analytics to determine program demand, which helps them stay on top of this highly competitive field.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business. SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software. apps to manage their operations, up from 3.8 Solutions aimed at SMBs are more widely available. Enterprise Apps.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2010

It reminded me of a client situation from my first company, Feld Technologies. We were working on a logistics project with a management consulting firm for one of the largest retail companies in the world. I’d dress up in a suit and go with the management consultants to the client and participate in meetings.)

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

New emerging technologies have been the key catalyst for in-demand jobs. Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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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. Our meetup is focused on how to use technology to enhance investing in private markets, including VC, growth, buyout, and distressed. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi!

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Huge leaps in technology have made seamless communication with remote teams efficient and cost-effective. Managing distributed teams is not the same as managing a local team, and many managers are unprepared for this challenge. We test for software engineering fundamentals, and we use technology-specific tests.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The shift from “startup scale” to “Facebook scale” can happen quickly, and you want to be sure that you choose the best technology for it. All this spells entirely different software architectures and priorities, requiring different kinds of technological expertise. Let’s call that last one “Facebook scale.”.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2012

The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2019

The struggle of establishing a company’s identity (and, by extension, its culture) is even more real for remote companies: without the luxury of face-to-face communication, remote workers may grow disconnected and dissatisfied – and their sudden change of heart will forever remain a mystery to the company’s managers.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

by Felix Winstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative. As an example, the reasons we provide to prospective engineers are 1. cutting edge technology (WebRTC), 2. For example, if you run a tech startup , you will know how hard it is to find good software engineers. Hiring = Sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. For every Overture or MySpace in LA you had the next tier of management who made a little bit of money and is now looking to build something massive.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the rest of the management team really skeptical. I didn’t recognize the behavior at the time, but anyone who loves technology and gadgets has at one time or another has bought a technology toy – USB memory sticks, iPod Shuffles, umbrellas with LED lights, alarm clocks that talked, Flip Video Cameras, etc.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. Toward that end, they have created two products.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

As the technology industry continues to grow, the tech talent pool has expanded exponentially. In today’s technology-driven world, app development helps businesses deliver important information to their viewers and enhance the customer experience. Cost-savings with the more affordable developer and IT project manager salary.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software. While the optimism is a great trait in many ways, it can be a huge cause of frustration between co-founders when the technology takes longer to develop than originally estimated.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. I love working with and mentoring students, and am especially thrilled when they proactively reach out to me.

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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. In fact, just being around TechStars, located in the heart of MIT and the technology district of Cambridge, will help Startup School students make connections.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

by Melissa Lincoln, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Leadspace. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to one of the world’s leading B2B technology markets. This fertile crescent of B2B technology is an unbeatable homebase for a growing technology product’s sales, marketing, and success teams.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Most small and medium-sized businesses have to deal with inventory management at various levels. Benjamin Yee is the entrepreneur behind an innovative software, EMERGE App, that makes it easy to manage the process. I didn’t set out to write an inventory management software package from scratch.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Bitcoin is a software engineer’s implementation of money (as distinct from, for example, a politician’s, banker’s, or economist’s). Many of bitcoin’s most vocal proponents see bitcoin as a currency, a replacement for currencies that are created and managed by governments. It follows.

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Our Own Start-up

APRIL 16, 2020

Sachin Bansal has made several investments into companies and start-ups such as Altico Capital, U Gro Capital, IndoStar Capital, Vogo, Bounce, KrazyBee, Ola, Bansal attended Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and completed a degree in Computer Engineering in 2005.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you. But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. But I managed a few "good learning experiences" before throwing myself full-bore into IMVU.

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