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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

Leadspace was founded in 2010 and maintains offices in both San Francisco and just outside Tel Aviv in Hod HaSharon, Israel. As any engineering VP based in San Francisco knows, it’s a competitive market for technical talent. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

In the past 18 months at NextView, we’ve made 13 new investments (out of the 36 we’ve made since the inception of the firm back in 2010). Included in our recent investments in this category are both Dunwello (rethinking how employee feedback and reviews are delivered) and a stealthy investment in NYC empowering software engineers.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

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. On the other hand, the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (used in the Sun and Apollo engineering workstations) and the IBM 360/370 mainframes were big-endian. What a great idea.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way. Bring your questions.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). It’s a dating website that is free for users and makes money from advertising. The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Advertising.

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Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

You might be slowly building a fan base on Facebook ( if you’re buying fans on Facebook by advertising, you’re very likely wasting your money ), sharing small bits of content on Twitter and posting images to Pinterest. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. People also prefer good organization.

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Diverse Startups Can Receive Tech Mentorship And Thrive

ReadWriteStart

The fact that Citizen Made has earned funding is also rare: in 2010, just one percent of venture-funded startups were founded by black people. And then there’s what Finney calls “Tech’s advertising problem.”. “If According to the latest data collected by the National Center for Women in Technology, only 25 percent of U.S.