YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Product Architecture. Revenue Architecture.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Product Architecture. Revenue Architecture.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.”

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Conversely, a low-performance application might have an architectural bottleneck through which many request types flow (e.g.,

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

He moved out to Colorado to attend CU Boulder, starting a degree in Architecture only to find out he was more passionate about Business. Entrepreneurs have to get really comfortable with rejection, especially as a first-time founder. This is what most founders do. Solve the rest later. Become comfortable with rejection.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Every business person with a dollar and a dream these days thinks they’re a technical co-founder away from interweb stardom. Remember the joke on Office Space where you can’t have the engineers talking to the customers? That the one guy’s job was just to interpret what the customers wanted for the engineers.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2019

Internal link architecture is something that few startups take the time to understand and master. Unlike with external links, there’s no danger of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) penalties from using too many internal links,” entrepreneur Tom Rankin writes. This includes first-time visitors who have no familiarity with the site.)

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

In addition, Amazon launched two dedicated funds: Alexa Startups – The Alexa Startups team engages founders and investors through startup programs, business development, and technical support. AWS Startups Blog – Head here for insights on startup related topics and guest posts from startup founders/leaders. Physical space.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

In the first post , we drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. In two of these three phases – the first and third – volumes of helpful information and numerous organizations are readily available to help guide and support founders of startups. Mind the Traction Gap? Go-to-Scale.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. NVV: Startups are all about tradeoffs, and engineering is a great example. Making good tradeoffs is a core skill of a senior engineer.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. Raising Venture Capital. Angel Topics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Engineers love to build, solve tough problems, and make progress. Motivating Them Engineers are motivated by a variety of things.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. But there are dozens if not hundreds of employees at WP Engine today who are much more skilled in their area of expertise than I’ve ever met at a small startup.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2016

How do you build your engineering/dev team from the ground up? Let’s make a few assumptions: You are a founder, you have your idea, and you have your money. What kind of engineers do you need? What kind of engineers do you need? Now consider a few high-level categories of engineers: Front-End. It is just you.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

I just had lunch (at my favorite Greek restaurant in Palo Alto forgetting it looked like a VC meetup) with a friend who was technical founder of his company and is now its chairman. I reminded my friend that I’ve never been an engineering manager so any advice I could give him was just from someone who had seen the movie before.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Enter “ The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses “, a New York Times bestseller by founder of IMVU (creator of 3D avatars) Eric Ries. There are principally three engines of growth in any startup.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MARCH 24, 2015

A market size of epic proportions, a groundbreaking architectural approach, and a world-class founding team drove our decision to invest. Rubrik innovates with a slimmer architectural approach to delivering instant recovery by eliminating the need for backup software. A $47 Billion Data Management Market. A Radical New Approach.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The blockchain and Arcadeum architecture we’re developing enables the future of gaming, where players benefit from truly owning their digital items, privacy, provable fairness, open economies, and the ability to earn real-world value through play. What has the startup experience taught you about life?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

What I saw reminded me of some of the best and worst things I did as a founder. 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. We’re building the wrong product!”

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 3, 2013

With these trends as a backdrop, we are in the early innings of a massive redirection of enterprise IT budgets towards new technologies and architectures. We are very excited to partner with Sanjay Beri, founder and CEO of Netskope. Distinguished Engineer of security at Juniper, where he specialized in behavioral analytics.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The audience size identified is encouragingly large, and the frequently used phrases and words (brick mortar, retail, founder) align directly with our target audience. Take SparkToro’s Co-founder, Rand Fishkin. Lost and Founder,” a book by SparkToro’s founder, Rand Fishkin, is readily displayed on the SparkToro site.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. One founder companies can work, against the odds (hello, Mark Zuckerberg).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend. Our vision was that just as the PC was revolutionizing the business market, we were going to do the same for scientists and engineers.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

by Andrew Ostashen, co-founder of Vulsec. This includes creating the Information Security Program, training on secure development of products, and/or implementing the security architecture of their infrastructure. Bring awareness to employees with social engineering, training, and positive reinforcement tactics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? I mean, have you seen other people?

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The project has sparked its fair share of confusion and controversy due to a controversial founder, uber-nerd technical specs, and a naming convention that seems borrowed from Magic: The Gathering. This architecture is intuitively more exciting to me, but questions remain about scalability.

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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

Still there are some common signals / symptoms that I hear about from Founders/CxOs in companies that are the reason they are calling me. Founder Developer Gap and A, B, C Players By the way, this question is another example of issues around the Founder Developer Gap. No one owns architecture. Massive overtime.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Heterogeneous architectures apply exciting advances in technologies such as GPUs (graphics cards originally invented for gaming and video), solid state memory, high network bandwidth and many other cloud components to break barriers and deliver meaningful progress.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

They are leaders, visionaries, founders and managers having tremendous success. I was an engineer on the engineering team. For one, the engineers consider the artists stupid; the artists consider the engineers arrogant. Yet talent organized improperly can lead to failure. The meeting was tense.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 30, 2023

Using a modified babyagi architecture by @yoheinakajima & AutoGPT For example: – podcast script from latest news – market research report – new github repos trending on hacker news Live now on [link] pic.twitter.com/FvQzNj1uIo — David (@dzhng) April 17, 2023 3.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. I think an issue many talented entrepreneurs and European founders (especially German founders) have is, they don’t think big enough. Many founders don’t deal well with people leaving, but I am probably one of the worst.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

The first version of the product was based on an architectural approach that didn’t aptly satisfy all players in the ecosystem and wasn’t flexible enough. At this point, the other co-founder, Jud Valeski, stepped up to be the CEO. I’m super proud of Jud and the team he’s built at Gnip.

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