Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Trello : “We use this on the dev team to manage and organize our projects. I like the Kanban board design for project management, which makes it easy to organize tasks by what stage of completion they’re in. ” -Mike Wheeler, Lead Web Developer. ” -Evan Coonrod, LivePlan Developer.

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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. Thank you Yotam and Tamar for choosing to partner with us! _ * See Accel 2020 Euroscape ** See Statista.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. They are tasked with “getting deals done&# so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc.

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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. At Qualtrics, our mission is to create the Experience Management (XM) software category. Marketers build pages; developers build systems.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

Today, Aurora and Reinvent Technology Partners Y announced their agreement to merge. It’s a process that requires significant internal resources and a strong ecosystem of trusted partners. The Virtual Testing Suite that Aurora has developed allows it to simulate the on-road equivalent of over 20 million miles every day.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Also, working with a consulting CTO will prepare you for finding and selecting a permanent technology partner.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? If you read a lot of these though you start wondering if the only route into the world of web startups is to be a developer or computer engineer of some kind.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Not only do they need to have a high level of diversified technical prowess and proficiency, but they also need to possess strong leadership and project management capabilities. However, it’s more important that the CTO have exceptional interpersonal skills and be able to manage a team effectively. Have an account?

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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.

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Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

I’ve seen openings for a “CTO” whose responsibilities include maintaining servers and managing the help desk. One firm had a CTO that was chartered to run a group of developers. The CTO should not manage developers. A CTO should not manage a hardware team or an infrastructure group.

CTO 40

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

See Supporting New Managers and What Would You Do to Support New Managers? We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Charles Edge :: Partner, 318 Author :: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book April 16, 2007 1:37 AM Shashank said. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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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. You find that you have to support channel partners as well as direct customers (or vice versa). This team worked as a team, not as individuals. You’ll build custom code for certain clients.

Software Review 67

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Now when we run a promotion with our new partner and get a thousand users coming in at one time, it grinds to a halt.”. We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Account managers can tier customers. Here’s a review from Andrew Anderson from Malwarebytes : Andrew Anderson: “ Pros – Offers the best in-product segmentation available. It’s not cheap.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? I've reminded them that we can't simply look for a balance of what the marketing is costing us now, but also what the 5+ years of development of several products have cost us.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element. I learned how to better run a product management process.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

20:05] Why wouldn’t you use a resource plan with your white label partners to some degree? [20:52] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Sometimes you might be using white label or outsource partners. I'm gonna lease you this, you know, cross-functional development team. Yes or no? [17:51]

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Juan Delgado-Moreira, co-CEO of Hamilton Lane, a $900 billion asset management company, said in an interview last week : “Now is the best time to invest in Israel. Despite the challenges, I’m very bullish on the future of the Israeli tech ecosystem and am honoured to directly invest in Israeli startups with Remagine Ventures.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

This week, we discuss the Bplans article, 12 Signs You Need to Hire a Manager. Listen: Show notes: 12 Signs You Need to Hire a Manager – (:31). QUESTION: Do you have a story about adding a manager to your team? QUESTION: Do you have a story about adding a manager to your team? Peter: I see.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Not just to create but to constantly manage and evolve forever in an ongoing fashion. As we’ve headed towards our public launch, we actually hired two awesome Social Media Managers, Elaine and Anna , because we understood the level of engagement we’d need to have in the conversation. You have to get involved and involvement takes time.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Stake holders can be business owners, engineers and developers, web analysts : ), product managers etc, anyone who has something to do with the website or customer experience. Often times lab usability tests are also recorded on video for later review and also to present to a larger audience in a company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2023

Joe focuses on helping small- to medium-sized businesses and currently owns and manages a number of digital companies that are fully run by virtual assistants, including: Level 9 Virtual, Wedding Booking System, Engaged.app and Campground Digital. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you are starting new, or going to touch the code on your website for any reason, please, in the name of Thor, Superman and Dilbert, use a tag management solution. Google Tag Manager is one such solution. It is free. What do you learn from this tab? The next tab is more fun/important, the search performance report. Free or paid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. The last thing you need is a manager telling you how to do your job. If youve ever been abused by a bad manager in your career, its easy to become traumatized.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

but it’s manageable. The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. Partner with someone who is irrationally ethical, or a rational believer that nice guys finish first. Got the idea for biz but my partner wanted the quick reward but not the up and down of the journey. Coincidence?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

From Strategy to Development Whether you are out-sourcing or developing in-house there are two ways to build a system: Give your developers a rough idea of what to build and keep iterating the design as they build it; Give your developers detailed documentation of what to build.

Web 40

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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? Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” We think so.

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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? Short and sweet. Same with Pets.com?

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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.

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