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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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Strategic Technical Advisor looks at the business and determines what makes sense from a technology perspective in the short-term and longer-terms. As noted in Symptoms of a Weak Development Team , this is a symptom of the old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

They make hardware with a large part of their innovation in embedded software and services. The CFO asked me to stay as one of the engineering directors came in for a meeting. 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. I wish I hadn’t.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I was a consultant and ethnographer, another teammate was a market researcher, and two others had the software engineering skills to build what the market needed. After a solid week of speaking with lawyers and attending webinars on real-time deposition software, we had mapped both the technology and the buying relationships.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition?

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 24, 2014

Ever since I first got involved in National Center for Women & Information Technology , I’ve been deep in the problem of underrepresentation of women in computer science and entrepreneurship. I regularly get asked for resources for girls who are interested in learning how to write software. Software Engineer Insider.

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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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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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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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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. The software generates instant dynamic reports, such as financial revenue, gender ratio, and more.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. This means that early software architecture can sometimes not work as well as the startup moves forward. One of your better developers leaves. The last 10% takes the other 90%.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Build a Talented Team of Technology and Business Professionals. Having both startup and third-party project work available keeps any technology staff busy on both client and startup work throughout the year. This approach exposes IT pros to the latest technologies while providing experience in many different business sectors.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2019

In this article, we will talk about all-star software development teams and some ways to build one. The second important decision is choosing between a co-located remote software development team and fully distributed development team. With remote teams, you can hire a vendor if you don’t want to hire engineers personally.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. Software development is all about managing complexity and the bigger and more mature the codebase gets, the more complex it gets. It wasn’t always this way. So what was going on?

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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

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 Ogoki Learning Inc.

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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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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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Diego Basch

JANUARY 28, 2012

Some people believe that carrying out a large software project is like building a bridge. This view has been debunked decades ago; this analogy was frequently seen as an aspiration for the future when I did my Master in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon in the late nineties. Drones exist, location technology exists too.

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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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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. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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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. What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

In light of this, software developers are beginning to cater to the digital transformation needs of SMBs. 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. Enterprise Apps.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2013

The other day, I took part in a forum about technology education in Brooklyn. So much of the focus was on how to produce usable software developers inside the four walls of a classroom. Not a single one of his developers came out of school as usable commercial software developers. Answer: All self-taught.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 13, 2012

I woke up this morning to a post from Fred Wilson titled The Academy For Software Engineering. In it Fred announced a new initiative in New York City called The Academy For Software Engineering. I expect efforts like The Academy For Software Engineering to take this on directly.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

We’d previously contributed to another project Fred and Joanne spearheaded for the Academy of Software Engineering last year. I’m chair of the National Center for Women & Information Technology. A few weeks ago Fred sent me a note and asked if Amy and I would make a contribution from our foundation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

In Part 1 of this blog series, I presented a rather dysfunctional conversation going on between software consultants and you, their client. I originally promised that in Part 2 I would go into some specific software products. It would be nice, of course, if there was one comprehensive technology that could easily take you all the way.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

Technology Accelerator. R&D activities can range from developing and improving processes, products, and services to developing technology, programs, and software. So, whether if your business involved manufacturing, software, engineering, financial services, and many more.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

They’re getting their first customers with minimal technology, and often no code at all. Instead of building fancy technology from the outset, they’re hacking together inexpensive online tools such as online forms, drag-and-drop site builders, advanced WordPress plugins, and eCommerce providers. Replace technology with people.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2012

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. But online payment technology didn’t catch up with their vision, until now.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2019

Steve Jobs is often hailed as a technological genius, but his hiring principles are equally stellar: he was famously in favor of hiring only the best professionals. It may be tempting to think that company culture is only useful for internal purposes – but let’s take a look at how Apple (quite successful company, don’t you think?)

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2010

It reminded me of a client situation from my first company, Feld Technologies. At this point Feld Technologies was about ten people and, while I still wrote some code, I wasn’t doing anything on this particular project other than helping at the management consulting level (e.g.

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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. I wrote a blog post on this. Details to come.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

It's challenging to build, design and deploy software. Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software. It's also challenging to attract and retain a loyal community of customers and users. Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Either way, custom software development is an effective way to build brand awareness and give your business a competitive edge. As the technology industry continues to grow, the tech talent pool has expanded exponentially. If you want to take your business to the next level, you should consider app development. Source: Pexels.

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