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Top Tips for Building an Engineering Team

The Startup Magazine

No engineering firm can succeed without the right team in place. Engineering is all about working together and collaborating, so it is vital that you take your time with recruitment to find people that will be a good fit, mesh with one another and help to take your firm to new heights. Identify Roles & Needs.

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How To Evaluate Your Company’s Value

YoungUpstarts

Figure Out the Net Assets of the Business. Once you have tallied all existing assets, subtract liabilities to come to a determination of the company’s net assets. Liabilities are anything that the company owes, often coming with the word “payable,” and may include items such debt owed to creditors and salaries due to employees.

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Digital marketers are the tech industry’s trailblazers, according to Pathrise

The Startup Magazine

SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. Next, they optimize the content with keywords to rank highly in the Google search engine results page (SERP). These search engine optimization (SEO) skills are absolutely essential for digital marketers. Is it any wonder they’re essential?

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Startups Should Start Saying Goodbye to.com,net and.org Domain Extensions

ReadWriteStart

Despite their rise in popularity, many wonder if using a new domain extension rather than a traditional one could affect their website’s performance in search engines. This is indeed a prime time to make a solid impression and bid farewell to the.com,net and.org domain extensions. The answer, according to Google themselves , is no.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

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Support Startups for Net Neutrality

Feld Thoughts

The new leader of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Chairman Ajit Pai, has said he wants to roll back existing net neutrality rules that prevent big cable companies from discriminating against online companies and services. Ten zillion words have been written about Net Neutrality. Congress is lining up behind him.

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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

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.