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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. In light of this, software developers are beginning to cater to the digital transformation needs of SMBs. Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business. Solutions aimed at SMBs are more widely available. In 2016, SMBs used an average of 4.8

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Hire a Recruiter.Now

Seeing Both Sides

CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. That's why, even though it flies in the face of conventional wisdom, I'm advocating that all my portfolio companies hire recruiters when they are trying to fill senior or key positions. 2) Hiring Inexperience.

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

Austin Startup

Darren Nix , Group Manager of the Assessments product team at Indeed and founder of the Y Combinator -backed startup Interviewed (acquired by Indeed), puts it this way: “Users can’t design your product for you. often referred to as business analytics?—?is Creativity is also a must for product managers.

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Why you can('t) recruit a technical cofounder

blog.launchbit.com

cofounders. technical cofounder. Why you can(t) recruit a technical cofounder. We didnt put strict specifications on what "technical" means, but the general idea was people who may qualify as a technical cofounder of an internet/tech startup and in particular, those who have been pitched ideas before. Viewed times.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO

firstround.com

Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company.