View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer? office, right in the heart of MIT.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

You can hire remote developers. The best software engineering companies always prioritize exploring all of the possibilities to find the most accurate solutions as they can. Many companies and organizations are up to develop the custom analytical and platform to find the insights.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. I want to tell you a story about how a team pivoted and succeeded by synchronizing product and customer development. Here’s a guest post from Frank.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Given something tangible, customers were able to start gauging their willingness to use and pay.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2019

For many remote (and even regular) companies, company culture is something ethereal and abstract: while the most important metrics (customer engagement and satisfaction, employee turnover and retainment) are closely monitored, features like company culture are often neglected. by Denis Kryukov from Soshace.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Is this for VIP customers or everyone?). Think about what your sales, marketing, customer success, or any other team will need in terms of understanding the feature being released, and how to answer any questions they might face. Shipping software is like a muscle, the more frequently you do it, the easier it is to execute.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Why Shipping Is Important When Building Shipping defines software engineering in a magical way that is challenging to understand. In the fintech ecosystem, the development of a product could mean the transfer of billions of dollars per month, and consumer product creation and delivery can have an impact on a vast network.

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David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. Engineers, product managers, and platform managers building tech solutions for private market investing. I also teach Front-End Web Development at General Assembly. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi!

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

New data-powered solutions give companies that would ordinarily be too large to customize their offerings the insight to do so. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2018

IoT also impacts organizations by creating new positions and job descriptions such as Chief Internet of Things Officer (CIoTO), IoT Architect, IoT software engineer, Business Designer, IoT Stack and platform Developers and more. Customer skills for digital transformation champions. Seizing the opportunities.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

That’s what former software engineer Jamil Khan has done with his new company, North Aware , in manufacturing its Smart Parka. As he notes, you have to be able to advance the learning curve fast in software development because changes occur at such a rapid pace. Trust a techie to reinvent how we do winter.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

As an example, the reasons we provide to prospective engineers are 1. impactful work (we point to specific features that are being used by 100s of customers) and 3. For example, if you run a tech startup , you will know how hard it is to find good software engineers. Not sales, product development, or fundraising.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Customer Service. Customer service is one of the most popular freelancing opportunities today. Also known as customer support, this field is growing rapidly because of the increased demand for communication. The increased need for communication contributes to customer service growth as a freelancing opportunity.

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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. Valuable customer data is buried in these disconnected tools. The huge amount of customer data you’re generating, it’s silo’d in these tools. All manual operations.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2016

If you have a team of software engineers, perhaps they could benefit with some soft skills training. If your team deals with infrastructure engineering you could send them for a one-day course on the cables and components they specify. Why hire new talent when you can develop it from within the organization?

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. Taking My Class. Origins of the Lean Startup.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2013

Mike at Born To Sell : “We had over 100 customers on our first day. The reason this was possible is that during development we befriended the owner and editor of the most influential blog in our niche. Alan Canton runs NewMedia Website Design , which offers professional website design services faster and for less.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2016

Too often, aspiring engineers who lack the funds to pursue a computer science degree from a university or take part in a bootcamp find themselves locked out of technology jobs, despite often severe talent shortages. After about six months, graduating apprentices are qualified junior developers, ready to work.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Speaking of sales and business development, during the first few years, it was hard to convince businesses to create remote jobs. At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc. The country experienced the worst of an earthquake and coronavirus outbreak.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Software Engineer Steven VanRoekel CIO Dan Greenberg Co-Founder & CEO CHECK OUT THE AGENDA. > Nicole Lazzaro President Udi Nir CTO NEW! Seth Sternberg Co-Founder & CEO Scott Chacon CIO Kevin Hale Senior Product Manager NEW! Juan Diego Calle CEO Dharmesh Shah Co-founder & CTO Ross Snyder Sr.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

They’re getting their first customers with minimal technology, and often no code at all. They’re jumping right in to serve customers in any way possible – heading right for their first paying customers. They’re jumping right in to serve customers in any way possible – heading right for their first paying customers.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Jeremy Johnson.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Jeremy Johnson.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect. Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. The software was idiot proof.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well. Software Engineer.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Develop a viable proposition. If their solution can potentially meet customer needs, startups should create a minimal viable product (MVP) that captures their idea and brings it to market as quickly as possible. Many people overlook the problem of premature scaling in startup development. Surround yourself with talent.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

This is what your potential customers will first see when they visit your website and is often the link listed on various directories like Yelp. Think about your potential customers. Remember too that many customers will find your restaurant’s homepage after reading reviews, so keep the content on your homepage focused and short.

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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. There are several important sources of capital for entrepreneurs starting their businesses, depending on the stage of development of the company. 50 billion.

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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. Convenience First and foremost, you must decided whether to work with individuals or development companies.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2015

Lowe’s hardware stores are experimenting with robot greeters who guide customers to the correct aisle in the store. The US Navy has developed a robot drone that swims like a shark for underwater reconnaissance and may be phasing out manned aircraft in favor of drones. Systems Engineer. Supervisor of Customer Support.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Make your site easily accessible.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Make your site easily accessible.

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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. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. Driven by a desire to implement a highly-iterative approach favoring the validated learning of actual customer usage of our products, the team adopted Lean UX as their design approach. in the problem-solving process. This is an ongoing challenge.

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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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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. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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