View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Lastly, given our Boston location, it isn’t surprising that seven investments were Boston-based. Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. Step-Function Ad Tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. He built & IPOd Demand Media. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. for $565 million to Excite.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way. Amazon PostRank

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

And as they do so, the demand for high-quality engineering talent is going up exponentially. Toyota is a software company. Johnson and Johnson is a software company. Many more companies have realized they need to become software companies; otherwise, they risk becoming the Nokia or Blackberry of yesteryear.

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