Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

If we agree that the next generation of warfare is going to be fought at the speed of software, you need these end-to-end systems all connected together in a backplane, a platform. Your marginal costs and your average costs of building software do not go down over time. And for students of economics, you see the cost curve.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 30, 2012

Austin’s burgeoning ecosystem of startups is in high gear, buoyed by the rise of cloud-based infrastructure, mobile development, and cleaner technologies. Behind that growth is a vibrant tech community of software engineers, analysts and project managers. But what about more … Continue reading →

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

We have a relatively small window to transform our respective Defense Department from Industrial Age hardware-centric organizations, to Information Age software-centric, more risk tolerant ones. In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2011

A post in the New York Times this morning asserted that Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law. The rapid pace of software progress, Mr. Lazowska added, is harder to measure in algorithms performing nonnumerical tasks. It’s easy to forget about the software layer, but as an investor I live in it.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

No questions being asked ( Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything ) Rest of team says - “I’m not sure where we stand.” “I’m And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. Software development is challenging.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

While open-source tools, readily available APIs, social platforms and cloud hosting providers have made it easier in many ways, being a Web entrepreneur is still not for the faint of heart. It's challenging to build, design and deploy software. It's not easy to build a great Web application.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The same might be said of good software. Here we have the beginnings of a theory of design for software.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 20, 2019

Amazon Web Services, used by many tech startups and larger companies for their cloud infrastructures, announced the expansion of its Blockchain as a Service offering. ” On the crypto side, Binance resumed trading services after its $40M hack.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 23, 2022

White Hat Security: Cloud-based security solutions provider, White Hat Security, is a firm. This includes knowing what software and applications are used, as well as the network topology. Starting his professional career as a software engineer at one of the unicorns enables him in bringing “engineering in marketing” to reality.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

My partner in my first company (Dave Jilk – now the CEO of Standing Cloud ) used to have an endearing way of dealing with this. The person responded with a five minute explanation with a lot of details, all factually correct and contextually relevant, but at the end still didn’t answer the question.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

You see, in addition to being a fine example of a veteran software engineering leader, my neighbor Dave Thomas is also one of the top trainers in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (or BJJ) that you will find anywhere. Fortunately, as a software guy, he was able to do something about it by building his own.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2010

One of our software engineers wrote all the code. Sometimes it’s the CTO, sometimes it the VP of Engineering, sometimes it’s just someone in the guts of the engineering organization. I’d dress up in a suit and go with the management consultants to the client and participate in meetings.)

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. launched a contact management software. Siebel took off the most important features from the Database Marketing Systems and combined them with contact management solutions software. Enter Cloud Computing and Marketing Automation at Scale. Contact Management: The Beginning.

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blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) Build a software-as-a-service web site, even just a dead simple one, using the latest technology. Why do I say that?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

In Part 1 of this blog series, I presented a rather dysfunctional conversation going on between software consultants and you, their client. I originally promised that in Part 2 I would go into some specific software products. Of course, software consultants make their money by developing software.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Director, Cloud Infrastructure & Operations Turn Security Solutions Architect Turn Software Engineer, Data Turn Web Developer HelloFax Princ Mobile Software Engineer Advertising.com. Gift Guide. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Crunchboard.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

This is an exciting time to be a software entrepreneur and investor. The 90s was about moving just about every piece of software from isolated desktops to online. It was a big change in how software and infrastructure was written. I haven’t felt this same level of excitement since the late 90s. This was a big change.

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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.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Indeed.com said that Austin is the best place for a software engineer to get a job where his paycheck goes the farthest compared to the cost of living. Talent in Austin’s isn’t just more affordable, it’s easier to retain talent because they are less likely to get poached by the hot startup in Silicon Valley.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

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. Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Platform Software Developer. Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager. Software Engineer. Senior Ruby Engineer. RELEASE ENGINEER. Android Developer. UI Designer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

For example, the enterprise software industry has been around for decades, yet has re-invented itself from mainframe to client-server to the cloud. I told him that he should stay with software, which is more capital-efficient to build, easier to scale, and didn’t require actual rocket science to succeed.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

Noble Child’s cloud-based applications help systematically take on the growing foster care crisis caused by the opioid epidemic. Photo Credit: Matthew Wollack. 18- Improve engagement with my employees. Photo Credit: Nancy MacIntyre.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Engineering/QA. He basically outsources everything.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2014

According to its blog, LinkedIn “compiled the list by analyzing millions of interactions between Bay Area startups with less than 500 employees and the more than 337,000 Bay Area software engineers and IT professionals on LinkedIn.” Egnyte (“Provides Enterprise File Sharing built from the Cloud down”).

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

One of the company’s four employees, its software engineer, is not an American citizen. “If I want to hire them onto our team, it feels like a dark cloud looms over my head because I think of all the time, paperwork and troubles I will have to go through to sponsor their visa.” start-up world. Tim Sae Koo.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Belmont Technologies – CAD in the Cloud (backed by Northbridge and NEA). Stackdriver – Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring (backed by Bain). Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Filament Group – User Interface and Design. Places to Hang.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. It is a service that directly competes with your hosting provider, since it allows you to create and dynamically provision identical instances of your software. Conclusion Increasingly, the infrastructure for software startup is becoming less of a challenge.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Frequency of buzzwords (programming languages, frameworks, OSes, software packages, etc.). In the second, the candidate is using some standard industry lingo as a crutch — what he said could easily be applied to pretty much any software engineering position. News and World Report). Highest degree earned. Resume length.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. I know many people who think that software works like magic, but to me it actually was magic.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

“You Don’t Need Rockstar Engineers” with Dan Murrel Jr and Karen White @ BigCommerce Once upon a time in computing, it was thought that in addition to junior and senior software engineers, companies needed superhumans that could do the work of many: the mythical rockstar engineer. You don’t need rockstar engineers.

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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. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Nathan Hursts Blog Thoughts on Software, Technology, and Startups « Back to blog Im on the technical side of entrepreneurship in NYC. Ex: theyre primarily a back-end programmer, who can code basic front-end specs, and who can administer cloud hosting. I love programming, board games, and my wife.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

A director at OSI, a C-level exec at a hot open source startup and an activist in the software freedom movement, expect the unexpected, the fascinating and the infuriating. It led to software applications that by default were complex, brittle and heavy. It led to software applications that by default were complex, brittle and heavy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In order to do that, they decided three things were crucial: teaching people to code, creating a sense of place around the tech industry, and proving it's possible to build and ship world-class software from places like Fresno. Seven years later, they've trained about 5,000 students and created over 1,000 new technology jobs in Fresno.

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