California Operations Sales Software Engineering 
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 5, 2010
He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. So I asked our COO, Stuart Lander (a Brit) to set up operations for us. Irony, hey?).
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.
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ReadWriteStart
JUNE 16, 2011
In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. To learn more, you can check out some of the videos here.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. We had seen the reactions of people playing with the prototypes in our lab and when we demo’d it to our sales force. We knew something our CEO didn’t.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
The product often has an army behind it including customer support representatives, account managers, development operations managers, engineers, quality assurance analysts, designers, researchers, data scientists and more. I learned that software engineers?—?or Don’t get trapped inside four walls?—?invest
Start Up Blog
APRIL 17, 2013
Palantir – we’ll build arcane analytics software, put the company in California, hire a bunch of new college grad engineers, many of them immigrants, hire no sales reps, and close giant deals with D.C.-based based defense and intelligence agencies! Craigslist – it will be ugly. It will be free.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
Little Indians and Big Indians At MIPS Computers , my second semiconductor company, I was the VP of Marketing and defacto head of Sales. As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. Are you out of your !? *x!
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