Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. During this period, the Palantir Gotham team grew from five developers to around 35. It wasn’t always this way. So what was going on?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

That’s what former software engineer Jamil Khan has done with his new company, North Aware , in manufacturing its Smart Parka. Kahn had a better idea – several, in fact – that led to the Smart Parka, the first product of North Aware that launched in 2016 with the help of a highly successful Kickstarter campaign.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

Delivery of code/product that clearly has not been tested. No communication between developers. One of your better developers leaves. No questions being asked ( Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything ) Rest of team says - “I’m not sure where we stand.” “I’m

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. The innovation sector differs from other industries in how it generates profits.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. developed the Ojibway People and Language App.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

The traditional advantages of small businesses over corporations are personalized service and an inventory of niche products tailored to their local market. In light of this, software developers are beginning to cater to the digital transformation needs of SMBs. Solutions aimed at SMBs are more widely available.

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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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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If you want to take your business to the next level, you should consider app development. Are you are a startup that needs to market your products and services ? Either way, custom software development is an effective way to build brand awareness and give your business a competitive edge. Better lines of communication.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Without producing physical goods, every entrepreneur now can succeed in selling other manufacturers’ products online. Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? And keep in mind that the best option is to develop at least 5 domain names connected to your brand’s name to find an unoccupied domain.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

There is an unspoken rule: to launch a startup, you need to build a product, and to do that you need someone that can write code. Most importantly, unlike the majority of their peers, by the time they start building a product, they already have a humming business. Focus on serving customers instead of building a product.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But here was a $499 product that could let everyone use video.) Our engineers connected a VCR, pushed a button and poured in the video of the Apple 1984 commercial.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Now, if the communication can be smoothed, the entire process will become a great deal more productive. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development."

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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. It can be even harder to develop the skills needed to not just survive in a startup, but to thrive. But there is more to it than that. Startups are businesses.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 14, 2020

Nowadays, all companies’ operations involve technology up to a certain point and finding the best software developers is also something that will help your company stand out from others in the field. We’ll show how to find the best remote software developers for your startup. Communication skills are crucial.

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Transformify

MAY 15, 2023

With technologies advancing from time to time, there is a significant need for the best software developers now more than ever. And the only way to do that is by being creative and strategic with your approach to hiring software developers. And we're going to help you with that. Let's get started!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2016

It was adopted in the software development industry. It follows a linear, sequential process and is the most common version of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for IT and software engineering projects. It aims to eradicate the risk by outlining all the phases of the project from the start.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Unfortunately, positioning our product as an "IM add-on" was a complete mistake.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. hey eric, love the blog.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. In the race to build a great software product, engineering talent is oxygen. Hiring is what enables you to execute your product roadmap. The best way to win the talent war? Don’t participate.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2013

For years we’ve worked in small, distributed engineering teams and we’ve always struggled to find the right tool for communication. We primarily use chat because software engineering is very text-oriented. We tried many different products: free, paid, basic, complex. None worked well for us.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

So, too, is the level of competence required to engineer a product. In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. ” Not only does it decrease, but it may actually go away: Today, if you have a great idea for a software product, you need to either be an engineer or find one.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The good news for startups and other businesses with limited funds (or, who have financially savvy owners) is that you don’t (necessarily) need to hire an expensive team of software developers to create an app. It’s hard enough to learn how to fund a business without worrying about mobile app development costs.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2013

‘We were thinking, is there any other software package that is larger, worldwide? The fact that they’ve opened it up to other software developers – this interview started with Chris saying that we’re looking to take on Vizio – is a really interesting expression of Microsoft’s openness.”

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I hope that my software will help them to get out of a growth rut by reducing their costs, increasing productivity and achieving efficiency in their workflow. Tell us about your products and services. My company’s flagship product is an order, purchase and inventory management software for SMBs around the world.

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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). Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on. Online Payments. Start a blog.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. IT staffing, consulting and software development services. Daily email digest.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

In the first, you get a very clear idea of what the product is, what the candidate’s contribution was in the context of the product, and why that contribution matters. Judging each resume along these lines certainly wasn’t an exact science, and not every example was as cut-and-dry as the one above.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools. We are focusing on four primary principals from DDD: an emphasis on business value, cross-functional collaboration and a focus on the big picture, all while employing software best practices. This includes the code.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Software developers are a hot commodity right now, and many of them know it, so theyre on the lookout for really stellar business people to partner with, not some run-of-the-mill, me-too idea having, 10k foot synergizer without any concrete sales prospects, marketing ability, or product experience. I am now pulling in 8 figures.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Android Developer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer. Web Developer. Platform Software Developer. Sr Developer (JavaScript/Flash). Software Cloud Engineer III. UI Designer.

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

She will likely produce a better finished product than I can. Drip outsourcing has become invaluable to my productivity. This ties back into a topic I’ve spoken about previously: when it comes to your product should you build it, buy it or hire it out? Outsource your product architecture?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. I was making about half as much money as I did as a software developer, which wasn't great, but it was like, okay, this is all right.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In the end, your business’s individual expertise and knowledge of your industry are what makes your product valuable — and that cannot be copied.

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