YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Definition of A Startup. Myth #2: All startups are technology companies. Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." The value proposition is definitely interesting and the company has already validated with customers.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. Marketing and Sales departments are strongly aligned on the definition of MQLs. Just like cars with a great engine but no wheels. Tactic fatigue.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Bitcoin is a software engineer’s implementation of money (as distinct from, for example, a politician’s, banker’s, or economist’s). To draw an analogy, non-programmers can and often do have very insightful things to say about digital technology. Technology bitcoin currency' It follows.

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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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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2017

Last week I had the honor of speaking at the “Engineers turned Entrepreneurs” panel at the 3 Day Startup Global Roundup. Having graduated as an Electrical Engineer and worked as a Software Engineer at IBM, I felt I perfectly fit the bill. Note that got left by a customer.

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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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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

“Despite the industry’s lackluster returns in recent years, there’s still lots of interest in funds that have good track records or are well-situated to take advantage of broad consumer technology trends,” said Zoran Basich, editor of Dow Jones VentureWire. But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is very much the dream occupation of the liberal arts college student (such as I was) who aspires to an impactful career in business and technology rather than academia.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Next major event? Future M on Oct 16.

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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. After the acquisition of SneakerLabs, he served as the Vice-President of Interactive Technologies for E.piphany.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. As a result, the people doing initial resume filtering are not engineers. Enter recruiters or HR people.

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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. What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? " There are definitely cases where the lead developer grows into a CTO. What are the biggest areas of technical risk?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

We have the machine learning technology to take these disparate, small pieces of molecules, and stitch them together to form an actual anti-COVID drug." Eric Ries : Then somehow you made the transition from the scientist in a lab to the founder of a technology start up. Eric Ries : That's a remarkable use of social media. I certainly.

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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. This is John Jantsh. It's so compelling.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds. The definition of entrepreneurship is ‘ insane perseverance in the face of complete resistance.’

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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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. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2010

It reminded me of a client situation from my first company, Feld Technologies. At this point Feld Technologies was about ten people and, while I still wrote some code, I wasn’t doing anything on this particular project other than helping at the management consulting level (e.g. One of our software engineers wrote all the code.

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www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Software Engineering. systems decomposition Not able to think above the level of a single file/class Able to break up problem space and design solution as long as it is within the same platform/technology Able to design systems that span multiple technologies/platforms. Programming. The file should look beautiful.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

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. On the other hand, the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (used in the Sun and Apollo engineering workstations) and the IBM 360/370 mainframes were big-endian. What a great idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. I have found this quite rare in engineers. Many of us engineers are strong introverts, without fantastic people skills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Definitely. Now that's, it's a little bit misleading in the sense that the investment, I could write the software myself because I got a software engineering degree from mit. And so they already had a pretty robust technology and then all the way up through Living Social and Group on started competing with us.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Mass TLC Unconference : Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Entrepreneurial Development Firms.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But we are definitely planning to come back and re-evaluate EC2 in the nearest future, as it is excellent approach to scaling your application. December 27, 2007 at 9:31 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! : Management console that makes tasks easier is one essential that we are waiting for. Startups!!!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 29, 2020

29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23) He was an immigrant from Romania, a software engineer, came to the Bay Area, did Y Combinator, started a company, sold it, made connections, and became part of this ecosystem. Radu Spineanu : Definitely.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Nathan Hursts Blog Thoughts on Software, Technology, and Startups « Back to blog Im on the technical side of entrepreneurship in NYC. Technically inclined people can definitely build something on their own, and then seek a non-technical cofounder, retaining more equity for themselves. This doesnt have to be the case.

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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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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

For example, if you were paying close attention to the rise of YouTube in the mid-2000s, you would have understood it wasn’t just going to create new jobs for software engineers – but also a much larger number of new jobs in video production, advertising, entertainment, education, and more. And how do you do that?

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

This ranged from unrealistic assumptions about what the technical person will do ("Some non-technical people want a software engineer to not only code, but also be the PM, graphic designer, online ad expert, etc. Engineers can handle negative information.") Be realistic. Be realistic about your idea and your market. ("Be

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. This is a rant about how startups, by definition, need to think of things from new angles, and those angles typically don’t involve.NET.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We just held our eighth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. If you don’t know what this is, let’s work with the simple Wikipedia definition which is pretty good. But while many contemporary technology approaches embrace scale horizontally, many business approaches are limited to primarily scaling vertically.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our computer should be, debating cost and time-to-market tradeoffs of arcane details such as double-buffering, 24 versus 32-bits of color, alpha channels, etc. The conversation that day would become one of my professional watermarks.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Some will definitely go bad. 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. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers.

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