YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

Canada 167

Canada Hiring Artificial Inteligence Software Developers 167

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Though it’s incredibly valuable to be an early adopter of 2012′s tech trends, it won’t hurt your company to be right on time with everyone else who is just discovering them now. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs the following question: What tech trends are you watching closely in the second half of 2012?

API 157

API Social Media Mobile Valuation 157

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families.

Operations 286

Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Toss around the term “Millennial” in your favorite search engine and it brings up perceived characteristics attributed to the generation. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s 2012 report The Millennial Generation Research Review cites 80 percent of millennials sleep with their phone next to the bed. Make it mobile. Roughly 50.3

Email 141

Email Software Review Technical Review Social Media 141

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

Burn Rate 383

Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2014

For technologically inclined businesses, Texas has increased its STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce by 34,000 since 2009. Idaho has topped the annual Small Business Friendliness survey conducted by the Kauffman Foundation and Thumbtack.com since 2012.

North Carolina 176

North Carolina America Utah Idaho 176

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Compensating the sales force is a difficult task and the key is usually to keep things simple, so that each sales rep knows what he needs to optimize to make more money at the end of the quarter. which is very close to the typical 8% paid for sales commissions.

Software Review 91

Software Review Clawback Sales Salary 91

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Email is one of the most effective methods for alerting your audience about your holiday sale. Last holiday season, 28% of shoppers used their mobile phones to visit a retailer’s website and, with the rate in which smartphones use is increasing, it will be no surprise when this year’s figure exceeds 2012’s by a wide margin.

Sales 164

Sales Social Media Mobile Campaign 164

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. PPPS, we’re also hiring a blockchain engineer.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Under Nadella, Microsoft has already open-sourced PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, and MSFT Edge JavaScript engine, among others.]. Microsoft will offer its tools in the GitHub marketplace and integrate GitHub’s enterprise services (such mapping developer attribution to LinkedIn or with Azure for cloud services) with its own sales channels.

Acquisition 71

Acquisition Azure Open Source Seattle 71

Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

Marketing and sales will be amplified with the right product or victimized by the product that falls short, and not investment outside of product will overcome that reality. engineers paired would jump from frontend to backend erratically at each sprint iteration. It all starts with the product.

Product 62

Product CTO Hire Architecture Startup 62

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Yes, that is how important search engine optimization (SEO) has become in online marketing. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in Brief. You might have basics on SEO but why is your website not ranking on the first page of search engine result pages (SERPs)? You have come across it. What SEO is not.

SEO 28

SEO Engineer Campaign Search 28

www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Search Engine Watch. Heidi Cohen | December 24, 2012. While Facebook is too large to ignore as a marketing platform, its not as effective as other social media options for converting to sales. 2012 was a key year in Digital Marketing. Social Media, Mobile, and Content Marketing: 4 Trends That Rocked 2012.

Social Media 86

Social Media Media B2C New York 86

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Thursday, August 9th, 2012. These investments include Kaggle, a startup that compels engineers to compete against each other in order to solve “hard problems,” and Continuuity, Parse, Pushd and Citus Data. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. © 2012 AOL Inc. Disrupt SF. Alexia Tsotsis.

Early Stage 70

Early Stage San Francisco Los Angeles Southern California 70

Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

When we established Ready4S back in 2012, the tech startup scene looked completely different than it does today. More sales is an indicator of scaling as well. Thomas is a software engineer at an app development agency and a fan of everything IT, mobile and tech-related. Scaling drives a startup’s growth.

Startup 115

Startup Estonia Poland Silicon Valley 115

Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. It seems all Gates’ attention was focused on browsers, allowing Google to come along and become everyone’s search engine of choice.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Mexico Cofounder Angel Investor 60

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and beyond) – [link]. The State of Social Marketing 2011 – 2012 – [link]. Web Design Trends in 2012 – [link]. Web design predictions for 2012 – [link]. The best engineering flow chart ever – [link]. The ideal product manager – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The question they'll ask: But how do we know our $250,000 investment in digital (ads plus sites/apps) will drive offline sales? That also applies to the consumer Search behavior (#4 below) which includes all search engines and not just Google. What is the role of Search Engines in the purchase process? Data is cool, right?

Global 136

Global Czech Republic Russia Norway 136

David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

In order for users of this new vertical search engine to pay, there are at least three paths that can be taken. The first path is set up a pay wall and run the customers through a sales process. Here’s the data: 2007: 10%. It’s just a relative indicator.

Vertical 110

Vertical Search Business Model Software Developers 110

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. There are many ad networks that offer very low monetization rates and take a large sales commission. In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage.

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

What types of things might happen in 2012, as opposed to needing another 3-5 years to come to fruition. The thing you need to be careful of, however, is only paying attention to big trends, because you never know when you're thinking big data and you miss the awesome direct sales jewelry company. What areas need to be disrupted?

Technology 116

Technology Valuation Community Restful 116

www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. I felt that I had to re-educate myself on the engineering talent landscape given how fast it is evolving, and had a deep curiosity regarding what the best engineering leaders of right now looked like.

CTO 43

CTO CTO Hire PHP Cofounder 43

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

. … (Still) We had no idea the complexity that would be involved from sourcing the manufacturer and how long it would take once you found that manufacturer to be able to engineer the product… It’s very different when you’re engineering a product to make 100 of parts. …. Thankfully my team members always have.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur 120

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Multi-channel attribution was the flavor of the month for every month in 2012. And just as in 2012 magic pills will be scarce, FUD will be plentiful, and vendors will promise the moon. Put them on sale! Traffic Sources > Search Engine Optimization > Geographical Summary. MCF Assisted Conversions Report.

Analytics 159

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

But businesses are finding that Continuous Deployment not only changes engineering but has ripple effects on the rest of its business model. In the past both hardware and software were engineered using Waterfall development, a process that moves through new product development one-step-at-a-time.

Continuous Deployment 329

Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud 329

www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. User behavior has been changing ever since, and search engines are changing to recognize this trend,” Salyer said. Amazon Gets Ready for Sales Taxes.

Search 60

Search Boston San Francisco Cloud 60

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2013

For example, the engineering manager for a company I worked with was, at best, marginal in his position. He was moved from having direct reports into being part of the sales team. Since then, company sales grew dramatically, and new customers are better cared for.

Leadership 164

Leadership Technical Review Employee Management 164

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 2, 2014

His personal blog, Remains of the Day, is reliably interesting but there’s a post from 2012 that I revisit quite often. If they ever want to “solve” monetization they can via brute force while ad products and sales channels mature. What causes people to come back to your product and at what intervals.

Finder 100

Finder Video Channel Curation 100

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

This was Paul Rogers, our first VP of Engineering and now the CTO at WhaleShark Media (book note: later renamed to RetailMeNot and I wrote about Cotter Cunningham’s amazing journey from failure to success in this Lucky7 post about resilience). it is, after all, harder to find that right executive versus the right sales person.

Part-Time VPE 48

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Hiring Austin 48

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2011

5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012 This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Here are my predictions for 2012. Other marketplaces such as Amazon, Etsy, Buy.com and eBay are moving toward socializing your product search and becoming decision engines. Expect video sales letters and automated online seminars.

Small Business 66

Small Business Social Bookmarking Social Media Social Network 66

techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. It seems learning to code has become a theme in 2012, and the demand is being met by Code Year and others. Disrupt NY 2012. Disrupt SF 2012. © 2012 AOL Inc. Disrupt NYC. The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. guest author. We respect your anonymity feel free to directly email us.

Technical Cofounder 49

Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Antonio Europe 49

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2018

While word count is not the only thing that can impact how prominently an article will appear on the search engine results page, SEO experts say long-form content will be able to give you an edge. In 2012, brands could expect, on average approximately 16 percent of their fans would see their updates according to an article on Hubspot.

Social Media 232

Social Media Media SEO Channel 232

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Use Google or one of the many other search engines to search for existing solutions to this problem. Hopefully, you will find, with your favorite search engine, something like the “ Cooking Sauces & Food Seasonings Market Report 2012.” Real customer pain and money. Whole solution viability.

Due Diligence 244

Due Diligence Startup Search Engineer 244

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Websites are a big job and take time.

Internet 247

Internet Viral Naming Web 247

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

By Carla Freberg, Sales Manager – Vendor Services Group, Balboa Capital. It is referred to as Black Friday, and it brings out shoppers in droves who are looking for special promotions, door-buster deals, one-day sales and free giveaways. This year, Black Friday is expected to once again set new sales records.

PPC 193

PPC Advertising Louisiana Sales 193

The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

When I started hiring my first engineers, designers and marketers, I was mainly focused on passion, energy and most importantly potential. Your technical co-founder who built much of your first product is not likely to be your VP Engineering when you have a couple hundred engineers.

Management 120

Management Cofounder Startup Bootstrapping 120

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

When we created Yeeply in 2012 we were sure IT hiring was going to be all about freelancing platforms and remote work. So we decided to create our own JASP tag to define that new generation of engineers and entrepreneurs aiming to transform the world. The process itself was extremely frustrating.

Naming 100

Naming Fractional CTO Entrepreneur CTO Hire 100