Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2013

Mike at Born To Sell : “We had over 100 customers on our first day. Mike Scanlin runs Born To Sell , a website dedicated to helping investors generate more monthly income from stocks they own, offering a ‘covered call screener’ Previously Mike was a venture capitalist, investment banker and software engineer.

Investment Bankers 69

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Customers enjoy online shopping; their demands create enormous opportunities for eCommerce company’s growth. WordPress themes vs custom solution. However, if you strive to highlight your exceptionalism, develop a unique design and cater to customers’ needs in a better way, a simple theme won’t be enough for you. Hourly rate.

eCommerce 113

eCommerce Software Developers Software Development Hosting 113

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

While there are some services that are commonly outsourced, such as customer support and software engineering, there are actually hundreds of other tasks that can be effectively done by outsourcers, thereby helping to scale your business.

Audio 113

Audio Lead Generation Software Engineering Social Media 113

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.

Technical Review 132

Technical Review Croatia San Francisco Software Review 132

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. Hear Eric explain what they learned.

Lean 120

Lean Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Channel 120

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

500-rated, top-ranked conversation analytics software serving over 30,000 businesses around the world. Key Takeaway: Today, it seems as though there’s a never-ending list of channels and ways in which your customers can communicate with you and your business. 4:02] What is call tracking and how do marketers use it today? [7:08]

Metrics 85

Metrics Marketing Software Review Cofounder 85

ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2019

Propensity modeling attempts to predict the likelihood that visitors, leads, and customers will perform certain actions. So, for example, propensity modeling can help a marketing team predict the likelihood that a lead will convert to a customer. Or that a customer will churn. lead-to-customer conversion rate, retention, etc.).

Analytics 118

Analytics Non-Compete HTML Conversion 118

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.

Cofounder 143

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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. The resources required to start a company vary significantly , depending on the type of company and growth rate anticipated by the entrepreneur.

Angel Investor 179

Angel Investor Venture Capital Valuation Software Engineering 179

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.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Africa Sales Cycle 120

Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec.

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Part-Time VPE Engineer Retention API 48

Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

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. More sales is an indicator of scaling as well. A viable business idea needs to be innovative and unique—but don’t expect to come up with it early on.

Startup 115

Startup Estonia Poland Silicon Valley 115

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.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

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. If we’re smart we’ll cross-sell them one of our other products.

Video 168

Video Silicon Valley RSS California 168

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.

Silicon Valley 126

Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital Customer Development 126

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. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

Technical Cofounder 42

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Parades are held, speeches are given, and workers across the country take an extra day’s rest from their labors to picnic, play with their kids, and (often) shop the sales that businesses love to offer on the last official day of summer. John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met.

Bosnia 67

Bosnia Software Engineering Cambodia San Francisco 67

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. 1 – Medical Device Sales. As a sales representative I noticed that the promotional efforts for Plastic Surgeons were held by a few large firms that overcharged. Sales Account Manager.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Investment Bankers PR Social Media 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

same thing as growth hacker or growth marketer): “The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell. Software Engineer. ” Software Engineers. Product Manager. Data Analyst.

Analytics 99

Analytics Engineer SEO Channel 99

View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., What percent of your time do you spend head-down coding versus managing or scoping product or talking to customers? Editor’s Note: NextView recently kicked off a Boston-based workshop series on technical interviewing with Google.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Engineer Software Review Founder 120

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). The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Customer Support. you should be able to find many options for an ad sales network.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

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.

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Cofounder Early Stage Artificial Inteligence 52

techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr.

San Francisco 44

San Francisco Startup PHP San Diego 44

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Product management is fundamentally about thinking on your feet, staying one step ahead of your competitors, and being able to project yourself into the minds of your colleagues and your customers. Commit to observing and interacting with your customers on a weekly, if not daily basis. invest time into your customers.

Management 85

Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. Immediately. 2) Hiring Inexperience.

Hiring 44

Hiring Software Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley 44

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Customer Development is all about gathering a list of what features customers want by talking to them, surveying them, or running “focus groups.” Little Indians and Big Indians At MIPS Computers , my second semiconductor company, I was the VP of Marketing and defacto head of Sales. What a great idea. No, not really.

Customer Development 280

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 280

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Key Takeaways Jason emphasizes the importance of maintaining customer focus, embracing change, learning from failure, building a strong team, and staying true to your values when scaling a business. Sign up for a 15% discount on annual plans until Mar 31,2024.

Chicago 49

Chicago Campaign Software Review Software Engineering 49

YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

The otherwise identical homes could be customized with the interior designs, embellishments and personal touch of the owners. Today in the tech industry, we’re entering an era of Levittown software, and the change is important for all businesses. This is the model we see at software companies that are doing exceptionally well.

Software 248

Software eCommerce Software Developers Software Development 248

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. Sales are the bloodstream for most businesses, and tech startups are no exception. This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. LTV ­ CAC = ROI. CAC is tricky.

Belarus 137

Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

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

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 5, 2018

It really started as an in-house software solution to address the stock woes that I had with my custom t-shirt printing business. Spreadsheets sort of worked for a while but it didn’t scale with my t-shirt business and it certainly didn’t help me to invoice my customers on time or avoid an overstocked situation.

Software 55

Software Management Entrepreneur Vietnam 55

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

This fertile crescent of B2B technology is an unbeatable homebase for a growing technology product’s sales, marketing, and success teams. A San Francisco office empowers “boots on the ground” B2B sales, marketing, and success teams. They live where the top customers live.

B2B 100

B2B San Francisco Semantic 100

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Nudge is a fast pace, but still insightful with real world examples that you can apply her recent issue, talked about the, the idea of getting your customers, your prospects, in the habit of buying from you, or listening to you or following you. You have to balance that because without restaurants you kinda ha not gonna have customers.

Founder 82

Founder Chicago Kansas Startup 82

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.

Leadership 100

Leadership Software Engineering Silicon Valley Hiring 100

Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

Sales and Marketing. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Software Testing. Customer Service. A freelancer can create their account and design their own custom packages depending on their expertise. The talent pool includes app developers, UX/UI designers, full-stack developers, and software engineers.

Technical Review 89

Technical Review Software Review Search Portfolio 89

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

All Earnest investments are made using the Shared Earnings Agreement (SEAL) – a custom salary/profit share structure, aligned with how most bootstrapped founders are compensated. We determine a salary cap with the founder based on a software engineer in the closest major city. redemption, revenue share, etc.)

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Software developers are a hot commodity right now, and many of them know it, so theyre on the lookout for really stellar business people to partner with, not some run-of-the-mill, me-too idea having, 10k foot synergizer without any concrete sales prospects, marketing ability, or product experience. Jul 19, 2010 Nathan Hurst said.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Equity Salary 43