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Top Tips for Building an Engineering Team

The Startup Magazine

No engineering firm can succeed without the right team in place. Engineering is all about working together and collaborating, so it is vital that you take your time with recruitment to find people that will be a good fit, mesh with one another and help to take your firm to new heights. Identify Roles & Needs.

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Spotlight on Engineering Team Building: Lessons learned from Algolia

Cracking the Code

Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec. Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? Technical Review Defined A technical review is a deep-dive assessment of your software, infrastructure, team and processes. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

The story starts with a company you probably never heard of – Engineering Research Associates. The Navy had a Rapid Analytical Machines project with hopes to build machines to integrate optics, microfilm and electronics into cryptanalytic tools. Vannevar Bush at MIT was trying to build one for the Navy.)

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower

But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. Instead, given a startup project, they’ll default to building everything in-house, using technologies that they’re already familiar with. It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product.

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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Just like attorneys, technical advisors can help navigate waters that many find murky.

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6 Tactics To Propel Innovation Before The Next Crisis

Startup Professionals Musings

They overtly set out to create the future as a mission distinctly separate from their performance engine of today. To do this, leaders must eliminate the noise of obsolete ideas and activities, by creating protective structures, including dedicated teams focused on innovation. Be alert to “weak signals” of non-linear shifts and trends.

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