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. Would you mind sharing them?

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. → Learn More. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. Capitalize - Regular pitch events where early stage companies get direct feedback from local VC’s. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Android Developer. UI Designer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer.

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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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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.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. Between AT&T, the Financial houses and all the great local engineering schools they’re not only the best but there are a lot of them.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Would you want to run the risk that your former employer could have a claim against the intellectual property you’ve created because you broke company policies and developed your ideas on company resources? There is nothing wrong with non-founders – by design they are the overwhelming majority of companies. Not worth it.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? " => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Rockstar v.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company.

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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. Others may require a lot of time and significant development efforts, which raises the CAC. Step 1: Figure out the LTV (customer lifetime value).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

As any engineering VP based in San Francisco knows, it’s a competitive market for technical talent. It’s difficult to hire and retain the top designers, engineers, data scientists, and QA professionals, and an organization’s sustained growth can be threatened by this block to growing engineering teams.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is okay to go with a cheaper provider when you are just developing the code, but your production needs to run on a rock solid system. Like programming, business development and accounting system management is a specialty best left to professionals. Here is an example from AdaptiveBlue experience. Startups!!! « de-Hao! [

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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.

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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. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. The Investors In researching this post, we solicited the advice of a number of investors.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Previously, she was the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence (“EIR”) for Dell Inc.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Ressi estimates that the debt note now accounts for over 50% of all angel and early stage deals. Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”.

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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. Customer development isn’t just for [.] Reply Customer Development Oriented Lead Developer for Start-up – EventSession , on November 9, 2009 at 4:27 pm Said: [.]

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