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.

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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. MQL starts with demographic properties of each user. Tactic fatigue.

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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. The excitement, the allure of the startup, was mostly on building the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. Austin has Dell.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2014

According to its blog, LinkedIn “compiled the list by analyzing millions of interactions between Bay Area startups with less than 500 employees and the more than 337,000 Bay Area software engineers and IT professionals on LinkedIn.” See also: What It’s Like Working At A Red-Hot Big Data Startup. Lytro (3.9

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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. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications.

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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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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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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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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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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. I havent had to work this model under those conditions, so I cant say anything definitive.

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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. How do we bring the science and technology together?"

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? " There are definitely cases where the lead developer grows into a CTO.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

In the second, the candidate is using some standard industry lingo as a crutch — what he said could easily be applied to pretty much any software engineering position. Though highest degree earned didn’t appear to be significant in this particular data set, there was a definite trend that caught my attention.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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.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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? Blank gives us a very succinct definition of Customer Development: In a startup the role of Customer Development is [.] No, not really.

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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.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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. You should definitely follow up with how you organize the multiple interviews. FYI, Microsoft interviews tend to be real-world engineering problems these days, not puzzles. Excellent post on interviewing. Any advice?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. It is definitely written in a condescending manner. But you definitely need more than a beginner.

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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. Agreed -- it is a challenge and going to lots of events / meetups definitely helps. You forgot "cash". Inexplicably.

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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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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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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

For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry. My boss, the CEO, had just come from a string of successes at Convergent Technologies, Intel and Digital Equipment, names that at that time carried a lot of weight. with a minimum feature set was a bad idea.

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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. They dont need to know there are others.

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