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). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# Engineering/QA.

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Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not. That’s what K9 does.

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San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Paul Cheek, a serial tech-preneur, educator, and software engineer. I found it. This is John Jantsh.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Capitalize - Regular pitch events where early stage companies get direct feedback from local VC’s. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Gemvara - Online retailer for customized jewelry. Northeastern IDEA Venture Accelerator. Olin College Foundry Program. Smaller and High Quality Meetups.

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Boston Technical Review Community CTO Hire 56

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. Great engineers see it and smile. But what about Commodity?

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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. This leads to a set of questions: What is the role of a CTO in the early stages of a company, and does that role change later on as both the company and that individual matures? How will I know when the need has arisen?

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CTO Hire Technical Review Developer Software Review 231

Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

In other parts of the country, this is business as usual: Identify a customer need Build a product Sell the product In the valley, the knee jerk reaction is to start with the powerpoint deck and look for the venture capital drug. Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures.

Bootstrapping 28

Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. David Teten , Versatile’s founder, was previously a Partner with HOF Capital and ff Venture Capital, two early-stage New York VC firms. in idea-stage and side-hustle founders using a Convertible Income Share Agreement, or CISA.

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Get customer input. People design their products in a box assuming that they’ll show customers later and get feedback. Interview customers to better articulate their problems. It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. This is a BIG mistake many early stage companies make.

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Founder Vesting Intellectual Property Stock Options IP 365

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. Step 1: Figure out the LTV (customer lifetime value). He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. LTV ­ CAC = ROI. CAC is tricky.

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Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

They live where the top customers live. They can put a face on the organization, establish relationships with prospects and customers, and provide immediate, local support when needed. As any engineering VP based in San Francisco knows, it’s a competitive market for technical talent.

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B2B San Francisco Semantic 100

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2013

During my senior year, I took “Startup Essentials for Software Engineering” (taught by Zach Nies of Rally Software) and I can confidently say it was the best class I ever took at CU. We learned how to do customer development, conduct empathy interviews, and build a real MVP (not just an alpha version).

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Startup Vesting Cofounder Lean 130

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The first phase, before they get to product market fit, is all about technology leadership; startups focus on their technical vision, building their products or services, getting customer feedback. It is easy to use a cookie-cutter job description; we need software engineers, here’s what a great software engineer looks like.

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Leadership Software Engineering Silicon Valley Hiring 100

blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The reason this is important is because you can actually build your own Dashboard that offers a different, customized view of the same information. The trick is to walk the path from defaults to custom settings in the right way. December 27, 2007 at 9:31 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! :

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EC2 Widget Software Review Startup 40

blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

2a] Has paying customers -10%: If the company already has paying customers, the non-technical cofounder has already eliminated a huge risk for the business; someone wants the product. [2b] 6c] Non-technical cofounder has MBA -0%: (this is my opinion) In the early days of a startup, an MBA doesnt help much.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Equity Salary 43

Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

It was a big change in how software and infrastructure was written. Existing software engineers and tech entrepreneurs needed to retool both their skills as well as their way thinking about how software should be set up and software business models. And it was a big change in business models.

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Business Model Software Silicon Valley Mobile 48

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

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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Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Mellie Price (@mellieprice) | Twitter Heather Brunner CEO WPEngine Heather Brunner is one of the most successful tech CEO’s in Austin’s history, recently raising $250 million in funding from Silver Lake for WP Engine, the leading digital experience platform built on Wordpress.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Lessons to Learn By the time I joined Ardent I thought I was an experienced marketer, but I’ll never forget my first real lesson in what it meant to understand customers and product/market fit. For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry.

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Silicon Valley RSS Customer Development California 271

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2017

Investors are willing to take early stage risk because they don't have other risks like nationalization of industries, martial law, dissolution of human rights, etc. Get ready to have to start paying your software engineers even more so they can afford to live.

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