YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2014

We put our technology into the hands of employees — but in a controlled environment. Automated testing assesses the designed boundaries of your product. Beta testing highlights where potential gaps in technology may develop and gives you a chance to bridge these gaps before going public. Shorter development time.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Onboarding a new remote developer is arguably one of the most important things you can add to your core competencies if you want to assure your new hires’ success. Checkpoints to evaluate onboarding success have not been established in advance, and the developer doesn’t know what’s going to under evaluation. Business Context.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The growth of parcel services has been boosted due to – Free trade agreements (FTAs) signed between various countries and the development of special economic zones (SEZ) in different economies. Developing the prototype of the Uber-like app for courier delivery consisting of the basic functionalities. .

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. That said, some large sectors like financial services and healthcare only started to migrate their core workloads and data to the cloud more recently.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. So I helped, I was one of his first employees and wound up becoming the chief operating officer and running part of the firm and we grew at our peak to around 50 people or so. Back to Podcast.

Leadership 72

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Transformify

JANUARY 2, 2021

GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics calculates that this saving for each half-time remote employee could reach $11,000 per year. It demands a level of employee management and project management skills beyond regular. It keeps the work in progress limited so that the team can focus more on the task at hand. Employers like the idea too.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. If establishing physical offices in a developing country, split them into at least two physical areas hundreds of miles apart from each other. Fortunately none of our employees lost their lives and the second office 300 miles away in Manila continued operating as normal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2017

Our procedures got in the way of our employees doing what they know is right.”. “Earlier this month, we broke that trust when a passenger was forcibly removed from one of our planes… It happened because our corporate policies were placed ahead of our shared values.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

As we’ve grown from 1,500 employees to more than 3,000, I’ve seen many more “strategy” and “manager” types come on board, yet the number of “doers” doesn’t usually grow at the same rate. You have strategy, content, design, and dev—that’s at least four people. Marketers build pages; developers build systems.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Interestingly, one of the first things that you learn when you run an engineering organization is that a good Quality Assurance organization cannot build a high quality product, but it can tell you when the development team builds a low quality product. The Employee Lifecycle. Is your management team world-class in all phases?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

If you find you need a developer to work with you, do you reach out to a freelancer or do you call an agency? And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? If you feel like looking for offshore developer talent, you can try Softensity.

Small Business 104

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

In Part Two, I’ll talk about some of the practices we’re using in our product management and development teams. Our business grew rapidly from those two full-time employees to where we are today with about 250 employees in eight countries supporting more than 2,000 customers. It didn’t work.

Software Review 67

Software Review Development Team Review Later Stage Technical Review 67

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

One firm had a CTO that was chartered to run a group of developers. The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. A CTO should not manage a hardware team or an infrastructure group.

CTO 40

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. An Eye for Business Development Your new CTO’s technology vision should fall in line with your overall business strategy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

What used to be easy when you had one employee and two customers is more difficult when you employ five people and have 25 customers. If you’re setting business goals – and you absolutely should be – CRMs can help you review your metrics (i.e. Customers are the lifeblood of every business.

Small Business 61

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Announcement: Square lets employees work from home permanently. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19. Why remote work will persist after the disease dies out.

Silicon Valley 198

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Small Business Force

JANUARY 9, 2012

Your first good review by some industry press. Now, as your small business has slowly grown, maybe even added a bunch of employees, do you still celebrate small victories? It provides the opportunity to recognize what individual or team achievement means to the company's success. You know the ones. Like your first customer.

Small Business 36

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. And this was a huge product, which took years to develop.

Software Review 164

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. An Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development. Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.” Image Source.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 14, 2019

This A player theory is seductive to senior management for 2 reasons: 1) They consider themselves A players, and think they have achieved their positions due to their individual talents; and 2) It is far easier to focus on a few talented employees than attempting to develop the entire people-base of an organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. It’s a subjective topic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. During this period, the Palantir Gotham team grew from five developers to around 35. Week 1 - New Feature 2 - Development and testing continue together. It wasn’t always this way.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?". Here's one tiny example: I give talks on peer code review at conferences.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2023

More About The Agency Certification Intensive Training: Learn more about the Agency Certification Intensive Training here Take The Marketing Assessment: Marketingassessment.co Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! But the business that I started went from zero to 40 employees. Like this show? Yeah, of course.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Although every company values teamwork, precious few include it in the performance review process. If new employees know good teamwork is directly related to management’s view of their performance, they will put in the extra effort from the get-go. Develop Team Norms.

Development Team Review 157

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I'm gonna lease you this, you know, cross-functional development team. Feel free to give us reviews. Also, did you know that we had created training, marketing training for your team? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

On the one hand, it gives you insight into what kind of employee the candidate might be. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Jonathan: Yeah, number two is when business development slows down and that’s from Andrew Thomas SkyBell Video Doorbell. Jonathan: “12 Signs, Me Need to Hire a Manager.” ” Peter: Grammar be damned, let’s go with this.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

In this article, we unveil some points about our software development approaches. As a business customer, you do not need to deploy any software and hardware on-premises, take care about further support and development of the system. Our development team is very careful in choosing development frameworks and tools.

Management 52

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. Does this sound familiar?

Software Review 94

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. It depends on what other responsibilities team members have as well. As it happens to be, I am looking for a lead developer.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? and the development team in Israel.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). Ryoma Ito Any of you bizdev types located in the valley looking to team up with a tech guy? The ecosystem is just hard to beat. Short and sweet.

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Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 66

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. mockingbird?

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