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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. Besides unit testing, engineers also perform manual developer end-to-end testing. Developers will test from their own point of view, from having written the code.

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

Both Sides of the Table

As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. I then spent time with the VP Product Management to understand his functional roadmap and his perception of what customers wanted.

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The Other Founder

Seeing Both Sides

I’ve probably been thinking about this topic a lot lately because I’ve been recently meeting with the other founder at a few of my portfolio companies. The conversations we’ve been having have a consistent set of themes. But then the company hired a VP of operations. And then a VP of finance.

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How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO

firstround.com

I was their first full-time engineering hire and I helped build out the team and set the agenda for product development. When you’re at a large company however, especially as a software engineer, it’s easy to get disconnected from the business side of the organization and its direction.

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Larry and Sergey only started Google after making the rounds of the search engines trying to sell their idea and finding no takers.

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