YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Your most powerful growth engine is your existing customer. Local MVP (most valuable professional) customers are critical in helping Microsoft penetrate foreign markets affordably and effectively, providing the firm its most effective marketing communications and saving it hundreds of millions of dollars in support costs. That’s right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

We’ve recently added talks from: Former US CTO and current tech advisor to the White House, Todd Park; former Facebook engineering director Joceyln Goldfein; Dropbox engineering VP Aditya Agarwal; and KISSMetrics founder Hiten Shah. You pay per screen, so sit down with a couple of friends and split the cost.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As the cost of starting a company goes down over time, VC’s have become more than just money providers— they also help entrepreneurs gain customers and grow their teams. The unit cost fell and this idea of pay as you go. You found someone that really cares about something,” says Pete Kooman , CTO at Optimizely.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now. Foregone wages for an engineer aren't the same as foregone wages for a prototype designer. Franchises Beware of Song Birds When Doing Homework on a Franchise.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I promised to do this post as a follow-up to the session to provide additional links and information. Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, summarizes the purpose of the press release: “Writing a press release up front clarifies how the world will see the product – not just how we think about it internally.”. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I run an 8-year old information technology company in Englewood, QSE Technologies, Inc.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. Introductory remarks.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO. Gibbs was the founder of Google’s App Engine. Quickly Legal.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs. The team maintains a development office in Lima, Peru which brings incredible talent and energy.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

It can be difficult -- without experience building software -- to make an informed choice which is most suitable. Technology enthusiasts tend to get tangled up in enthusiasm for their chosen platforms, so wed like to provide an objective summary. PHP is insecure? Ruby on Rails doesnt scale? But wait Not all startups are alike.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. link] Kevin Pruett This information is so obvious, but often overlooked or under-executed. Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If getting VC or angel money is one of the ways that will help you avoid failure, why not check out the free Funding Recommendation Engine here ? #20 created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. During this year they.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Lots of business-y, idea-type people who say they’re looking for a co-founder are, in reality, looking for what is best described as an “engineering bitch.&# Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. How about ABAPer?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

We spend hours of seemingly “wasted&# time just in these informal chats simply shooting the shit. CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location. But in the early phases of your company you’re not likely to scale up the call center so until that time comes I’d have them at the home office.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Its an example of an information cascade - as PHP started to pull ahead of the platform pack, more and more people started working on it, increasing the size of the community and therefore making it more likely that even more people would choose it. In my role as a CTO, Ive always tried to choose the right tool for the right job.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

A provider of low-cost health clinics across the country, Carbon Health was also on the frontlines when the COVID pandemic hit--and even understood what was coming long before most people in the U.S. Carbon Health is a provider of low-cost health clinics across the country. They had to decide whether and how to respond.

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