SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. But often the result of a Founder hiring a developer or lead developer or even a VP engineering is a gap created between the founders and the developers. How will we find and interview developers?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2010

Show me how much each unique visitor is going to cost you in search engine optimization and pay-per-click search engine expense. I’ve talked before about initial conversations with founders and the questions I’m likely going to ask Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. Great stuff!

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! Do you participate in professional development workshops, or perhaps enjoy problem-solving puzzles in your downtime? Everyone struggles with empty text boxes. Populating them can be hard work, especially when the content needs to be just right.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2012

human engineering VC Cafe Photo credit: By imaginedhorizons (Flickr). ” Question: What is Human Engineering? Goleman added a new facet to how humans measure intelligence, which was previously generally viewed as a person’s IQ – a narrow metric revolving around linguistic and math skills. Wikipedia ).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? And keep in mind that the best option is to develop at least 5 domain names connected to your brand’s name to find an unoccupied domain. Develop a software solution. Discuss the suitable tools with your development team. What slogan do you see there?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Automated Root Cause Analysis – there’s an opportunity for automated root cause analysis to substantially improve incident resolution time, and the experience for engineers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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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. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

These black hat strategies pushed irrelevant content up the search engine results pages, which made Google act in the form of the Penguin update. The update caused their rankings to tank or their websites failing to show up on search engines at all. With Google, check Google Search Console and look for warnings in the message menu.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2018

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) can be challenging for many businesses, however it can be even more puzzling for startups. If your business is only ranking on page 4 or 5 on a search engine, it is practically guaranteed that valuable leads are not finding you. Search engines will then only index that one page.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. in Computer Science.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Because you already thought about success metrics in the planning stage, you should be ready to measure whether or not it was successful. Tools that will help with this include those that surface sales and ops metrics. These tips offer a helpful guideline as new app features are developed and released.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

An SEO audit is simply the process of identifying issues on your website that could be limiting your ability to rank on Google or other search engines. A poor site experience makes it less visible in search engines. Metrics : Website visitor data. What is an SEO audit? Why do an SEO audit? Cost: Free. Google Search Console.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. I want to tell you a story about how a team pivoted and succeeded by synchronizing product and customer development. Here’s a guest post from Frank. ———-.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

In the first post , we drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. And given the paucity of business metrics at this point in a startup’s lifecycle, spreadsheet analysis is of little help. As you develop your product, you must concurrently invest in market-engineering tasks.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2020

In a recent Call for Code Global Challenge , IBM outlined the top three areas that are in urgent need of rapid solution development: – Crisis communication. In a crisis developing as quickly as the Covid-19 pandemic, misinformation can create huge risks or even endanger human lives. – Remote education. Functional testing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users). They typically outsource back-office functions such as payroll. Here’s to your success!

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Numbers and data allow business owners to understand where their company is currently, where it can continue, and to develop a strategic plan to achieve business goals. The metrics in these reports should be monitored periodically. in Industrial engineering. I have even used them to prevent theft. I am pursuing my Ph.D.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

Although there are many different actions you can take to gain search engine recognition, content creation is the one with the most staying power. Similarly, you can update the old post for even longer on-page time metrics, as well as more recognition from Google Search. Consider Outsourcing Your Content.

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David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. Engineers, product managers, and platform managers building tech solutions for private market investing. I also teach Front-End Web Development at General Assembly. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi!

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The reason is that b2b fundraising is largely driven by data and metrics, and pre-seed dollars usually don’t get you to many meaningful data points. Most series A’s in B2B require a minimum level of top line revenue and a minimum amount of historical data to prove retention and some sort of repeatable growth engine.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users). They typically outsource back-office functions such as payroll. Here’s to your success!

Framework 113

Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2019

For many remote (and even regular) companies, company culture is something ethereal and abstract: while the most important metrics (customer engagement and satisfaction, employee turnover and retainment) are closely monitored, features like company culture are often neglected. by Denis Kryukov from Soshace.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

My good friend Alexander Osterwalder , the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki ,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement repeatable innovation processes inside a company. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If you’re moving slowly or have yet to implement search engine optimization (SEO) strategies as part of your overall marketing efforts, you’re falling behind your competitors. Once we settled on a defined conversion, it was much easier to make decisions and look at comparative metrics. Image Source: SEO Linkbuilding.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. Search engine optimization, paid search, social media channels, online stores, and even pop-up spots are examples of practical omnichannel usage.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2020

Searching for a Brand Name on Search Engines Can Reveal All the Mentions. If you have ever tried to search for your brand on Google, or any other search engine, you must have come up with thousands of results. Scanning through such amounts of data can take a lot of time and effort. The market reach and penetration of the brand.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth. And the whole site was developed in just 9 weeks. Companies of note Learn from companies that have been through the fire--and have lessons to share.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It didn’t become an innovation until it was developed and deployed at scale. Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. They built their search engine 20 years ago. Bigger jets, bigger engines, bigger ships, as opposed to the small changes that can make an enormous difference. Not inventors.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product. Often you can't tell if something like a search engine or matching algorithm is really going to have better results until you use it. Results of Algorithms.

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