Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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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. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

You can further improve virtual onboarding by designing and personalizing the user experience for your remote employees. Consider hiring or working with experts such as people with an online masters software engineering to create an immersive and seamless virtual experience. Scheduling and time tracking.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. These costs are largely fixed.

Technical Review 170

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2012

Founded by interaction designer Brad Damphousse and software engineer Andrew Ballester, GoFundMe was first conceptualized back in 2008 when both were driven by personal tragedies that led to want to use their talents for good. The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC). It may surprise you to learn that LA graduates more engineers than anywhere else in the country. Where do all of these engineers end up?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2015

Furthermore, companies have a huge financial incentive to find ways to eliminate human employees and thereby reduce such associated costs as payroll taxes, disability payments, insurance costs, fringe benefits, plant costs, training expenses, and worker safety claims. Game Designer. Systems Engineer. Art Director.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Since then, over 400 Insight alumni have been hired as data scientists or data engineers at top tier companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Airbnb, and Google. However, drawing math-loving engineers from the tech talent pool isn’t a sustainable strategy. This simply reallocates scarce resources. So, what’s the alternative?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. And vocational schools in other fields - for example, learning how to be a chef - often cost a lot more than $12,000. A Vocational School for Programmers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project. In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

launched a contact management software. That was designed to allow information storage and manage customer contact information. The perfect combinations of products with specific features not only is cost saving but can assure a better quality compared to the traditional all-in-one solutions. Contact Management: The Beginning.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In an interview with First Round Capital, Dropbox’s Vice President of Product and Design, Todd Jackson, observed : “The PM role needs to be purposely flexible, almost by design. A PM basically sits at the center of UX, technology and business. You may have heard the quote: ‘The PM is the CEO of their product.’

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

I do know in looking at a little bit of your background, you're not software engineers, you didn't grow up in, in that necessarily. Todd Fisher (01:49): I was gonna say, I have a technical software engineering background. Um, you came from other professions, so I'd love to hear what led you, uh, to where we are today.

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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). In some strange way, a big part of his competitive advantage is that he is able to outsource everything and maintain such a low cost structure. Engineering/QA. Advertising.

Software Review 65

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. No cost, not formal strings attached. Higher cost, but great facility. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

This is where FAST enters the picture, which Founder Institute has developed in conjunction with the Orrick Law Firm and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, to standardize the process and remove the hassle, cost, and delay to the formation of these relationships. iOS Developer Anki, Inc. Marketing Lead at drchrono (Mountain View, CA) drchrono.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

19 percent of startups fail because of too much competition, and another 18 percent fail because of pricing or cost issues. Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. IT/Software Engineering/UX or UI Design. Business analytics. Accounting.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

So my primary goal for the next year is keeping our computing infrastructure costs at bay, especially as we are delivering more and more AI-powered processing-intensive product features to our clients, such as image recognition. Our business is all about social media data analysis, and the amount of that data almost doubles each year!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

The human toll a virus could inflict and the immense economic cost of the emergency response stayed with him. As a child living in Hong Kong through SARS, he saw first hand the human toll a virus could inflict, and the immense economic cost of the emergency response. As a child, Alpha Lee lived through the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. You're going to spend many multiples of what the domain name would have cost you to create brand recognition. Is It Sticky?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

We launched the CODE2040 Fellows Program, which places top black and Latino/a software engineering students in internships, with five students in summer 2012. Even when a program like the Fellows Program can cover its own costs, we still need to be able to invest in the growth and sustainability of the organization as a whole.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

19 percent of startups fail because of too much competition, and another 18 percent fail because of pricing or cost issues. Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. IT/Software Engineering/UX or UI Design. Business analytics. Accounting.

Entrepreneur 48

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

But if a Tipping Point could be created there it could over come the costs. Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. Between AT&T, the Financial houses and all the great local engineering schools they’re not only the best but there are a lot of them.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. First Round Capital. The Review. Plusstartup. The Review.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I received a great question via LinkedIn: I'm the founding engineer and working hard to launch my startup. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? How can we phase development to balance cost, features, risk, etc?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next? Conclusion.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

Their assembly chain approach to construction brought in a level of efficiency, cost-savings and quality that was previously unmatched. The otherwise identical homes could be customized with the interior designs, embellishments and personal touch of the owners. The base product is quickly deployed, cost-effective and customizable.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The cost of a mobile app depends on a variety of factors such as functionality, design, supported platforms, targeted audience, integration points etc. There isn’t a single software project where price doesn’t matter. This subscription-based model allows to reduce upfront costs. Choose the right pricing model.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We’ve got an incredible engineering team that cares a lot about system design, architecture and user experience. Please explain the token standard you recently helped design, ERC-1155. Our Chief Scientist, William Hua, has more than a decade of experience as a software engineer in gaming and mobile app development.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC is how much money you can spend to get someone to become a customer. LTV ­ CAC = ROI.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

We do like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! It’s Absurd That Health Care Costs Are So Confusing – crowdspring.co/1yDomRJ. Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/12gwMCO.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. 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. What a great idea. Are you out of your !? *x!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

There is nothing wrong with non-founders – by design they are the overwhelming majority of companies. People design their products in a box assuming that they’ll show customers later and get feedback. Ask them how much they think such a solution would cost them. The world is much safer for non-founders.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Versatile has built out a suite of no-cost portfolio acceleration services to help its companies succeed. According to co-founder Rob Walling, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, “TinySeed is the first startup accelerator designed for founders who don’t want to raise traditional venture capital. Details here. —– TinySeed.

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