SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners? What are the biggest areas of technical risk? Accounting?

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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.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Software Development and Programming. The demand for programmers and software development experts is increasing rapidly because of corporations' heavy digitalization investment. Freelancing as a software developer or a freelance programmer can be lucrative. Another growth industry among freelancers is programming.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Integration risk is the term I use to describe the costs of having code sitting on some, but not all, developers machines. It happens whenever youre writing code on your own machine, or you have a team working on a branch. It also happens whenever you have code that is checked-in, but not yet deployed anywhere.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc. The idea crossed my mind while speaking with people in their 50s who had lost their jobs due to Industry 4.0 and business transformation. Work From Home Jobs.

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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. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

The inspection- system GM decided to use it for his fourth-generation system, an 18-month program. consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer. Though development was already underway, I kicked-off SyncDev in early November.

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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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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Software Testing. These platforms provide employers with an advantage in terms of hiring and managing employees, while ensuring that all payments due are transparent, accurate, and on time. Mobile App Development. Branding and Public Relations. Admin Support or Assistance. Translation.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At the Austin Convention Center. $99-$3895

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The same might be said of good software. Firmness: A program should not have any bugs that inhibit its function.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/12gwMCO. Making Failure More Productive | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1vCXLVU. How I Learned To Code On The Job | Fast Company – crowdspring.co/1zJjEjL. How to Enhance Your Loyalty Programs Using Social Media | Social Media Examiner – crowdspring.co/1CVvzRF.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Dates are irrelevant. for Harvard Business Revie.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

Mid- to large-size companies can also benefit from the lean methodology and one way to do so is by actively leveraging crowds of workers: designers , software engineers , testers , writers , customer support people , customers, market researchers , and dozens of other groups via the Internet.

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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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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Dave, Karen, and their family have been great neighbors over the years and, while we may go weeks sometimes not seeing much of each other, due to being involved in our separate professional and personal pursuits, we always know they have our back, just as we have theirs. (No, not related to the famous Wendy’s founder.)

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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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. Hersman also co-founded Ushahidi, an open source software firm. Nikolai Barnwell Program Manager Nairobi at 88MPH.

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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. It's the best investment I ever made.

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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. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation. Details to come.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Frequency of buzzwords (programming languages, frameworks, OSes, software packages, etc.). In the second, the candidate is using some standard industry lingo as a crutch — what he said could easily be applied to pretty much any software engineering position. News and World Report). Highest degree earned.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is okay to go with a cheaper provider when you are just developing the code, but your production needs to run on a rock solid system. It is a service that directly competes with your hosting provider, since it allows you to create and dynamically provision identical instances of your software. Not only it is simple, it is also fast.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Institute – Practical training program to prepare you to join a startup. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. MIT Start Lab.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. HTC One Review. By putting this online, it increases the efficiency with which startups can get funded. Trending Stories.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Applications due Nov 20 th ! Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

iPhone & iPod Touch Download Mashable for iPhone 152,000+ users iPad Download Mashable for iPad 104,100+ users Nexus One, Droid, Incredible Download Mashable for Android 9,400+ users show QR code The 4th annual Mashable Awards Nominate for your favorite company, person, site or gadget in the 4th Annual Mashable Awards.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Football vs. Track One more example and then I’ll get back to talking about software and entrepreneurship. Now Back to Software Let’s translate this to being a software developer / entrepreneur. MY EXAMPLE Let’s translate this to being a software developer / entrepreneur.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Sometimes these vacations would give me the clarity of mind to let go of an executive that I had been holding on to for too long (perhaps due to loyalty even though they had scaled out). At Bazaarvoice, we practiced vulnerability by reading books like Fierce Conversations and having training programs around them.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

There is this delusion that certification in a computer language or vendor technology (Microsoft etc) equates to mastery of the art of programming itself. 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.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

#9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program. One of the assignments I experienced was the development of their Entrepreneur Program. This benefited me in that I was motivated to leave an un-rewarding environment where programs that a ton of money was spent on were just cancelled. Image Credit: Anna Renault.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups. Code for America Chooses 20 Developer. Nagraj Kashyap: The Qualcomm Ventures vice president oversees the telecommunication giant’s investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

One of my colleagues, Joel West, beat me to the punch with a summary of the program. How Much Diligence is Due. Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Way. ► February. (1). A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. We're very fortunate that the YCombinator program took us on and is our incubator company, all of that. Eric Ries : When was that? Alpha Lee : Yes, yes.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Restrict validation to confirming key points (such as the availability of a user name), ensuring realistic answers (such as not allowing ages above 130) and suggesting responses where the range of possible data is finite but too long to include in a drop-down menu (such as a country-code prefix). Learn more on Coding: JavaScript & jQuery.

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Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

Simply having administrators black out candidates’ names and addresses before they’re reviewed by hiring managers is one surprisingly effective, easy place to start. Some level of screening is vital to most companies, but even low-tech solutions can make a big difference. THE TWIN PERILS OF BUZZWORD SCREENING.

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