Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing. I’m dropping everything non-portfolio related in the next few weeks and setting my sights on righting my wrong. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. Others will now buy your travel magazine over a travel book, for example, which competes with both your magazine and the video individually. Cross endorsement.

Non-Compete 241

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. Others will now buy your travel magazine over a travel book, for example, which competes with both your magazine and the video individually. Cross endorsement.

Partner 225

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“With 81% of breaches being due to compromised credentials, it’s essential to store intellectual property on a system that uses adaptive authentication with risk analysis, or at least two-factor authentication,” Keith, CEO of a security company, Graham told Forbes in an interview. File Several Types of Non-Disclosure Agreements.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

The low-fidelity nature of the deliverable also encourages non-designers to join the discussion. Demos have become our design reviews.” The conversation around this sketch provides enough directional insight for the rest of the team to voice any concerns, to begin the estimation process and to start coding.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

One theme that I always get is, “I’ve gotten an offer from a VC, but they want me to do X, what do you think?&# X is always something non-standard that the entrepreneur knows in his gut isn’t right. I personally ruled out Pakistan due to the perception that our staff would feel less safe there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm.

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2021

Much like you periodically review your digital marketing campaigns to get the most from them, a technical SEO audit evaluates site performance to identify areas for improvement. . Indexability: This shows where a URL is indexable or non-indexable. Indexability status: The reason why a URL is non-indexable. 4xx status codes.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

We’re tired of hearing how small software companies usually fail. But what about the companies that die even though they did sell some copies of software, and where the early team isn’t dysfunctional? The initial marketing channel was sustainable for a while , but got wiped away due to external forces.

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www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Programmer Competency Matrix. Able to recognize and code dynamic programming solutions, good knowledge of graph algorithms, good knowledge of numerical computation algorithms, able to identify NP problems etc. Understands what assembly code is and how things work at the hardware level. Software Engineering. Programming.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He wasn’t consciously giving a glib non-answer; he was understandably, desperately avoiding it. Here’s the most common one which I got just this week: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. click and competed with no other advertisers.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Email hygiene is the set of practices that reduces your startup’s vulnerability to email-based attack as well as non-malicious (read: accidental) data loss. Don’t apologize for this — you’re only doing your due diligence. You’ll feel more capable once you have it under your belt, too. Adopt Strict Email Hygiene Standards.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. And these days with how easy it is to build an application, your code isn’t worth much, either. Ideas (and in many cases the code itself) are not worth as much as we think.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve Google tries to cover a variety of topics, from the bare minimum, “Can you code?”

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

Software Development 79

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Although there are many collaboration tools (like Slack and Trello) available, they do have a learning curve that can be hard for non-technical folks. They also complain about managers favoring in-office staff, even if they are less competent. In fact, extended hours due to lack of discipline can play havoc with their personal lives.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). A healthy eco-system of application developers is required for any software or Internet company to be massively successful.

Technical Review 286

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. For phone interviews I recommend websites such as Collabedit to let you watch candidates code in real time. Keep candidates engaged.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 16, 2012

I wasn't hiring, but I agreed to meet him due to his generous offer. I've followed up as non-annoyingly as possible via email but I don't want to be pushy. They have a standard process for getting the final call and a prepared offer ready to go in due time. So how can you compete and win the war for talent?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

This being done in-house means more revenue stays with us, compared to hiring a firm or paying a employee who requires training and possible review process, slowing down the speed of business and still adding a layer of time effort to the management team. Jerry Piscitelli , Portopong LLC. You Need Basics, Hire For The Rest.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. And since the card was useless without any application software, what other software products did they use on it? If so, where?

Silicon Valley 213

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 20, 2019

They may be membership-based or non-membership based. As organizations grow and evolve, and the world they operate in grows and changes, the board is responsible for reviewing the changes and making adjustments that are in the best interests of the organization. All organizations are unique in their own right.

Software Review 106

Software Review Due Diligence Non-Compete Programming 106

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Self-regulation, in addition to being the responsible course of action, will protect short-term rental owners from incurring fines as well as potentially losing their lodging license due to non-compliance. Fewer noise complaints means happier neighbors and a lower risk of fines. Remote locations are hot, and compliance will follow.

Non-Compete 147

Non-Compete Hosting Technical Review Government 147

VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Game streaming continues to grow in 2021 – According to StreamElements 2020 year in review , game streaming broke new records in 2020. Meanwhile Oculus Quest 2 drove 156% growth in Facebook’s non advertising revenue and is on track to be the first mainstream VR headset. The “creator economy” will prosper in 2021.

Technical Review 207

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’re a non-profit…. Kiva is a non-profit organization that partners with microfinance institutions (Kiva’s “field partners”) in third-world countries to offer small loans to budding entrepreneurs. EarlyShares is a pretty sophisticated fundraising platform looking to compete with traditional venture capital firms.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 25, 2010

You begin to do this almost without thinking (unconscious competence for those in know). Well…I’ve hit that point reviewing websites. I’ve recorded stacks of site review screencasts over the past four years, and I’m ready to take it to a whole ‘notha level. Any non-personal website will work.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The reality of CAC is both the when you scale your acquisition “channel” costs usually go up plus when you find a great channel others notice it and drive up the costs as they compete with you in that channel. Enterprise software companies also should measure CAC even though it, too, is an imprecise science. The first input is CAC.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. ” What does “execute arbitrary code” mean? Literally, it means that the attacker can choose to have your server execute any code they can dream up.

Security 101

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. To sort facts from folk wisdom, I isolated some features that were universal among resumes and would be easy to spot by technical and non-technical people alike and then ran statistical significance tests on them.

CTO Hire 98

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Competing businesses. Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Wired refers to these as “hordes of linked machines controlled by rogue software.” Software can help. (

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ConversionXL

MAY 25, 2016

User generated reviews in general are tremendously influential in persuading people to buy. One study found that 88% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations and 72% of consumers say positive reviews make them trust businesses more. How Do People Consume Product Reviews?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Contract management software can speed this process, allowing you to use templates and negotiation tools to quickly draw up these typical documents. Some employment contracts do include clauses that could be considered employment policy issues, such as outlining the hours to be worked or dress codes. Not Updating Employment Contracts.

Cost 113

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

It does not create new markets or value markets, but develops existing ones with better value , allowing companies to compete against each other’s sustaining improvements. Customers flocked to Apple, and the company had record-breaking profits with its hardware, software and service. Sustaining Innovation Defined.

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