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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

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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Kevin Federline Search Engine

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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How Companies Can Claim R&D Tax Credits Software Benefits

The Startup Magazine

These include wages for product managers and software developers, contractor development expenses, and cloud computing services charges. In the state of California, for example, software development and technological companies are provided a credit of up to 7.5% of the qualified expenses. R&D Tax Credits Software.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Cybersecurity Best Practices for Nonprofit Healthcare Boards

Board Effect

Data Protection and Privacy: Many countries have data protection laws (GDPR in Europe, HIPAA and the California Consumer Privacy Act in the U.S., Risk Management: Volunteer boards are responsible for managing the organization’s risks. Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act in Canada, etc.)

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

I’ve covered this topic many times before, but I keep coming back to it, because everytime I turn around I’m talking with both startups and established companies in Southern California who are telling me they are looking for technical talent to join their company. Tags: Jobs Southern California. Why do I say that?

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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. How dare you,” the fab manager said. “We The supplier’s CEO directed his business unit general managers to take a SyncDev workshop. That night we flew to Boise.

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