Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Frank Robinson of SyncDev has been helping companies figure out their minimum viable product and pivots since 1984, long before I even knew what it meant. I want to tell you a story about how a team pivoted and succeeded by synchronizing product and customer development. We shut down production to setup your machine.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

So, this was a meeting of last resort, as the engineering director was making one last appeal to the CFO to keep his team in town. While a significant part of the headcount of this tech company was in manufacturing, the director’s group was made up of experienced software engineers. They’re lucky they work here.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

From the next generation of AI solutions, and revolutionary software engineering solutions to cost-saving consumer solutions, heres a list of 10 breakout innovation trends and companies to watch out for in 2025. This being said, this hinges on an ability to develop and release specific software applications ahead of the curve.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Stablecoin Yield Optimisation: Create innovative products or services within the stablecoin ecosystem that aim to transfer risk-free rates to users. The Future of Software Engineering: YC believes that while AI can write code, human software engineers will still be needed to manage teams of AI agents that build software.

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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. Finally, productivity mobile calendaring app Sunrise has been adding features which leverage demand-side economies of scale.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Palantir is a deep technical play and we had a lot of code to write just to fill out the product vision that we had already validated with potential customers; it took us two straight years of development to go from early prototypes to software that could be used in production. So what was going on?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

He later worked for eight years at the European Union commission helping to develop the cultural industry in Africa (cultural products being the main exports – and revenue – for poor African countries). Peer-To-Peer Referral Network. The African Boy Who Could.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc. Delivery of code/product that clearly has not been tested. How strong is product management? Some of the top symptoms are: Frequently missed deadlines. Is there a lot of rework?

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What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The transition from software engineer to product manager can be a challenging one, but it can also be a rewarding.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2009

Moonlight Responsibly - If you are still employed please be very careful not to use your company’s resources to produce your product and please do not work on your next idea during business hours. DO NOT start with product, start with the market. Build prototypes and/or product. Start building out your product.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

For example, Artem is an expert in software engineering, product development and all things tech. It’s important for co-founders to each have their own personal strengths in a business so they can divide the responsibilities and succeed in their respective roles.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

Alternatively, according to Typelane organizations with a standardized onboarding process experience 62% greater new hire productivity. Whether it’s an inactive email address, a project management software glitch, or a cracked computer screen, etc., these are hiccups that stall productivity. Define Onboarding Length.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Vinod Khosla Founder Dave McClure Founding Partner Eric Ries Author Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur & Professor Todd Park CTO Travis Kalanick CEO & Co-Founder Joe Zadeh Director of Product Sam Shank Co-Founder & CEO NEW! Seth Sternberg Co-Founder & CEO Scott Chacon CIO Kevin Hale Senior Product Manager NEW!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2019

Throughout the company’s history, both Apple’s hiring managers and their software engineers have been adamant that only the best professionals would be worthy to join this company. This self-policing effectively became the company’s culture and allowed their teams to create many great products. Its product?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

A global market enables the company to sell vastly more copies of its software without increasing its production costs. The same is true for Internet services, digital media and most products that involve significant up-front research and development (R&D) costs. A Borderless Talent Pool.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

Delivery of code/product that clearly has not been tested. 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 We try to move on to find the actual A players. Symptoms So what do I hear about on these calls? Massive overtime.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

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. Even though we won’t make a ton of money, it will be an ambassador for the rest of our product family. And they were right. We knew something our CEO didn’t.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2017

Software engineer, entrepreneur and investor Mark Andreessen has a varied technical background that involved developing the world’s first ever web browser, Mosaic, and founding a number of software companies which he later sold for a large profit. Mark Andreessen. Angel Investors Understand the Difficulties Startups Face.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Calgary employers found software developer and engineer as the most in demand. Within the same report in 2018 over a span of four months was 600 plus vacancies for software engineer or software developer.

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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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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. Humberto Farias is a seasoned technology professional with over 18 years of experience guiding companies around the world through the custom software development process.

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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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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. The resources required to start a company vary significantly , depending on the type of company and growth rate anticipated by the entrepreneur.

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readwrite.com

APRIL 25, 2013

And you thought being a software engineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. It turns out, at least according to a survey conducted by software delivery service Electric Cloud , that developers spend almost 20% of their time.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For example, Lean Startup offers many benefits to emerging organizations, especially considering its focus on crafting a minimum viable product (MVP). If necessary, it also helps determine the validity of a potential target market before too much money gets spent on promoting a substandard product.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Are you out of your !? *x! No, not really. I was just in marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

In this post, I'll focus on a few keys to helping co-founders work together to build a better product. A quick note, while I primarily talk about co-founders, the same principals should also be applied to interacting with all early employees as you really are partners on the mission to build a great product. Discuss.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

For example, if you run a tech startup , you will know how hard it is to find good software engineers. Not sales, product development, or fundraising. Your internal team creates your external results, such as new products and increased revenues. Do you compromise, or do you keep looking?

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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. Engineers, product managers, and platform managers building tech solutions for private market investing. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi! who use tech solutions in their day-to-day process.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2019

by Adam Zimman, VP of Product and Platform of LaunchDarkly. Tools that will help you with this include product delivery and tracking tools. #2. Celebration (even for small wins) provides motivation to continue practicing the act of shipping, and results in more stable services and products. #5. Plan the release. (Is

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

Most people would think that R&D tax credits were only applicable to those who create the best new products and those that wear laboratory coats, this is grossly wrong though. R&D activities can range from developing and improving processes, products, and services to developing technology, programs, and software.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In fact, all major computer tech companies are involved in automotive software engineering. . A few hurdles to cross before these vehicles go into production are: Operating conditions. Companies working in automotive software engineering are trying to answer the many questions around self-driving cars. Regulations.

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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. The six-week immersive program offers four tracks: software development, marketing, sales and business development, and product design. Startups are businesses.

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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? One of the simplest ways to construct a product like Etsy is to use WordPress Etsy themes. Junior engineers cannot deliver a high-quality product.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

The best software engineering companies always prioritize exploring all of the possibilities to find the most accurate solutions as they can. A data science and AI consulting company should be looked at primarily when you need to improve the products which have the appropriate functions around machine learning.

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