deal architect

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

In the 72nd episode of Burning Platform, we host Sayan Chakraborty, EVP of Product and Technology at Workday. He has degrees in aerospace engineering from MIT. Sayan is, in many ways, a rocket scientist. He started his career as an.

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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 set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product. Context here.)

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc. Delivery of code/product that clearly has not been tested. How strong is product management? Some of the top symptoms are: Frequently missed deadlines. Is there a lot of rework?

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

3) It all starts with the product: Companies can overcome a great many challenges with band-aids, duct tape, and bailing wire. but one aspect of a startup and/or growth stage company that cannot be glossed over is the product. It all starts with the product.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 30, 2021

User Interface Design is the core and start of any digital product. Some of the processes which UX includes are interaction design, wireframes and prototypes, information architecture, user and market research, and many more. Make sure that your end product is value for time and money. seconds on any new landing page they visit.

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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

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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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. You must have a passion for the problem and a love for building great products. It took Alex a long time to find an engineer to partner with without the network gained from working at a startup first.

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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. Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

Before we delve into what the role of a solution architect is, let’s discuss the broad field of solution architecture. Solution architecture. A simpler definition of the role solution architects could as well be summarized as: Creating an enabling environment for productivity. Source: Pexels.

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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. Unfortunately, positioning our product as an "IM add-on" was a complete mistake.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 10, 2010

A CTO will also want to ensure that the businesspeople on their team will understand important product and technical decisions. They want to work in an environment where their opinions are respected and they also feel like they can have intelligent discussions about product. This is where product and design leads come into play.

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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. Go-to-Product. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. As you develop your product, you must concurrently invest in market-engineering tasks.

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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. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. Raising Venture Capital.

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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. As soon as you have more than one product manager, or more than one interaction designer, teams face this question. Alignment with Architecture.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

At DoubleDutch (where we make mobile applications for trade shows and conferences), this iOS 7 announcement provided an opportunity for us to reevaluate the state of our product. Through this process, I learned about the phases of startups, the consequences of growth, and when to rethink your product from the ground up.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 30, 2021

User Interface Design is the core and start of any digital product. Some of the processes which UX includes are interaction design, wireframes and prototypes, information architecture, user and market research, and many more. Make sure that your end product is value for time and money. seconds on any new landing page they visit.

Mobile 78

Mobile Partner Developer Technical Review 78

Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

I don’t tell that story to brag, but to talk about the “10x developer” If you write code at all, you’ve surely heard of the idea there are programmers ten times as productive as others. The original notion came from “The Mythical Man-Month” by Fred Brooks , and the topic has been hotly debated ever since.

Software Review 111

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The story starts with a company you probably never heard of – Engineering Research Associates. In January 1946, they founded Engineering Research Associates (ERA). Norris became the VP of Engineering, Engstrom the VP of Research, and Meader VP of Manufacturing. Parker agreed to invest. The company hit the ground running.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Thanks to the Internet, businesses have successfully learned to sell products and services online. Beauty Products. You can sell specific beauty products, too. Consider specializing in eco-friendly products, for example, which are becoming popular. Do you have what it take to actually code the website architecture?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Creators of new products in environments of extreme uncertainty, startups face enormous risks. Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. There are principally three engines of growth in any startup.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2017

One way to meet a variety of stakeholders’ needs and embrace the latest technology is to plan a multi-cloud environment by design, creating a modern data architecture that is capable of serving the broadest possible range of users. Integration Approaches for Data Agility.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

Re-architect and re-write” the product. At the last board meeting our VP of engineering explained that the root of our problems was ‘our code has accumulated a ton of “technical debt,’ it’s really ugly code, and it’s not the way we would have done it today. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. The logical solution? “Re-architect

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Still, a product is nothing without scalability.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2016

How do you build your engineering/dev team from the ground up? You need to bring in the right people to build your product. 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. System/Ops. Native App Types.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. They built their search engine 20 years ago. Bigger jets, bigger engines, bigger ships, as opposed to the small changes that can make an enormous difference. The second is a preference for product over strategy. In one day for $100.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

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? But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. They might do anything !

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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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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

When an organization is within the startup phase, the first thing on their mind is “How do we get our product to market as fast as possible?” followed up by “How do we scale our product(s) the fastest and most efficient way possible?”. Do we have an internet connected product/app? by Andrew Ostashen, co-founder of Vulsec.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

I was an engineer on the engineering team. The art team would often be involved in the specification phase of a new feature, since they were responsible for the look-and-feel of the product. For one, the engineers consider the artists stupid; the artists consider the engineers arrogant. The meeting was tense.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Compare that to SparkToro’s account, which is more mostly product-focused. Posting only about your product on your personal profile is unlikely to garner a large audience. Their private group, Semrush All-Stars , provides users with a way to find help using the product and interpreting results. Image source. Image source.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. The Face of the Product and Technology A CTO is often the face of the technology and product. They will attend conferences and tradeshows to evangelize your product and technology.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We are so focused on work, on getting things done, that we’ve changed the way we eat, move and sleep in a way that is actually counter-productive. Studies show that people who feel more “in control” of their work and work environment are less likely to suffer from stress and illness and see increases in productivity.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. Class Flow Week 1 What is a simple idea?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. I didn’t really expect that consumer product evolution patterns will be so similar to software products – but the facts may surprise you. A look at how CMS evolved.

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