SVPG

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

For nearly every organization that has grown beyond a very early stage startup, one of the most common, yet difficult, questions is the optimal way to split up the product work. The key is not to drive the product structure around the engineering teams, but rather to work together with engineering to move together into alignment.

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SCRUM Product Architecture Technical Review 63

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention. For example, complex new semiconductor architectures, (i.e.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Still in second inning for enterprise move to cloud : Regardless of what economic cycle we endure, the Fortune 500 march to a cloud-native architecture will continue. Privacy engineering rules: We can’t go a week without a new data breach or privacy violation; Marriott, Google, Facebook and more.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) Their engineers hated us. Engineers as Salesmen I thought (and still do) that this sales guy walked on water.

Technology 138

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 138

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

This is often a shock to managers and engineers, who tend to assume that most people can eventually do everything the product or website offers.” (via Fancier goals can include different sub-goals for novice, intermediate or advanced users (as defined by the usability engineer) or detailed goals for errors or mistakes.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Architecture Conversion Software Review 48

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

I got to spend time inside his company while I was using their software to analyze early-stage ventures. Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. A Pivot a Week.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. Great engineers see it and smile. This is called set-based concurrent engineering (SBCE). [1]

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

In this capacity I can tell any entrepreneurs raising early-stage capital that I would have Matt on my short list if I were raising. We brought on Nanea Reeves as President to shore up quality on the product, engineering and ops side. She made an immediate positive impact on our culture, quality and overall product.

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Silicon Valley Los Angeles San Francisco Architecture 150

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. The best ones know enough about Internet marketing (and search engine optimization) that they’ll be visible if they are looking for new projects. Try Google.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Artificial intelligence supports facilitation that adopts an active and flexible architecture. This phase will establish comparatively in the software-defined data storage at early stages. Adding a diverse software control layer on top of the hardware permits the software to monitor more tasks. Enhanced Security and Reliability.

Artificial Inteligence 93

Artificial Inteligence Flash Cloud Algorithm 93

Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2020

And one question that many startups overlook at the early stages of formulating their business plans: do you have a well-reasoned, effective, and budget-savvy marketing plan? That’s where search engine optimization (SEO) comes in. Successful SEO strategies raise your sea rch engine ranking. What is outbound marketing?

Marketing 142

Marketing Technical Review SEO Hosting 142

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Prior to that, she spent 12 years at Stanford; worked at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical as a research scientist; administered a dialysis clinical trial at University of California; and taught chemistry and basic engineering courses. In the average VC portfolio … 1 in 10 companies (they invest in) will turn out to be a big hit.

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2011

According to the deal, Rocketip will supply NVIDIA’s engineer access to its test engine over the next three years. Rocketick’s first round was backed by early stage Israeli fund, Peregrine Ventures. NVIDIA’s CUDA parallel computing architecture facilitated this development.”.

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Architecture Early Stage Algorithm Advertising 68

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

AWS Builder Space (Israel) – A non-equity program for early stage startups who are looking to accelerate their speed to market. Startups on Air – Startup founders, CEOs, and CTOs dive into their companies’ histories, products, and technical architecture. Support Programs.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

Version One Ventures

MARCH 15, 2016

It also means that we should already be in the early stages of that next big era. Plus, as Chris points out , we’re moving more toward systems-on-a-chip architectures which drop the price of a computing system from $100 to $10. The question is: what is it? What’s the next big computing platform?

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Azure API Technical Review 60

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. His ability to lead large teams of engineers had made him one of the most influential executives at Microsoft and the world.

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The Next Web

JULY 8, 2013

from early stage investors (not VC’s yet) and our investors want to put in more money before going to our next big round. So far we have raised $2.3M Again, prioritizing has become more complicated with added pressures which affects the overall focus. A system performance for 5M users is very different from 55M users.

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Advisory Board API Cofounder PPC 128

ConversionXL

MAY 4, 2016

Good planning and the willingness to say “no” in the early stages of a product’s life are the best way to reduce complexity.” (via Firmitas —Firmness, or Soundness. The only way to “fix” complexity is to axe features, so being the anti-complexity tzar means telling people their work has to be destroyed. Not an easy job. via Medium).

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Mobile Jordan Design Conversion 48

venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

One thing I’d recommend about the dating period is if you’re looking for a co-founder for an existing concept of an early stage product, present their participation as a “trial&# before extending an offer. The challenge will be getting the right kind of architecture and design which will scale.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

In particular, they may use service oriented architecture, or SoA. Java is a great language for enterprises and is commonly used by many big dotcoms, banks and airlines, but its relatively slow development pace and higher barrier to entry make it inappropriate for most early-stage businesses.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 40

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

This is a long episode (1:20), but it’s a conversation that will resonate with a lot of early-stage startup founders. You’re an engineer, is that true? Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to hear a really tough conversation about refining a cool idea into a profit-making business. Jared: Okay. Jared: Yeah.

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API Software Review Technical Review Hosting 220

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

While the CAC ratio helps SaaS businesses at scale to manage their Sales and Marketing spend, the SLC is a helpful framework for early stage businesses before you have meaningful data. This is a guiding architectural principle for best-of-breed SaaS companies. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So everything, Hadoop and scale-out architectures and cloud services, and the whole thing it’s all — and use of new technologies like Box and GitHub, the consumer Internet companies all are just built this way. They are going to be doing all of the same kinds of things. I know how to do it better, I know how to do it different.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

While there are a huge number of intricacies with search engine optimisation, the basics are to find the right key phrases to target, to include those terms on the page naturally and within the page title and, of absolutely massive importance, to get other sites to link to you. I would check out Rand’s post on having a launch plan.

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