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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems.

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7 Tips for Building Your Lean Team

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. This is the mantra of Lean teams described by Eric Ries in his upcoming book, The Startup Way. Drawing on the advice of experts and recent research, here are seven insights on how to best build a Lean team. A hallmark of Lean teams is cross-functionality. Start small.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Hard skills such as data analytics are essential to being successful as a product manager, but equally-valued are soft skills such as communication, collaboration and leadership. I usually ask an interview candidate a series of analytical questions to gauge intelligence and problem-solving ability.” invest time into your customers.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. My parents and my brother live in Southern California.

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How I negotiated my startup compensation

keen.io

Engineer, arranger, communicator, amateur photographer. Kirk was leaning towards a high-risk, high-equity option, and Micah was somewhere between Kirk and me. Here at Keen IO, we help app developers build analytics & reporting features directly into their apps, without having to build their own infrastructure. Michelle Wetzler.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer. call to arms.

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7 PPC Mistakes You’re Probably Making (and How to Fix Them)

ConversionXL

Gone are the days of advertising to everyone in San Francisco, California. The problem (which advertisers and engines alike recognize), is this method greatly undervalues the offline influence some of these search ads can have. Be sure you have your analytics set to record the most useful data possible. Needs to be persuaded.

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