Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team.

Fractional CTO 400

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 400

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. Social media is not rocket science.

Burn Rate 258

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Management Salary 258

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

Intellectual Property 341

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 341

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2019

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv, a team leader from CouponBirds , a growing e-commerce company specialising in coupon code services and advertising. A full-stack engineer can describe my work at CouponBirds. What is your job at CouponBirds?

Software Engineering 96

Software Engineering Engineer Software Programming 96

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 30, 2021

With the rise of the modern era, everything about personal and professional life has been placed on the digital platform where UI UX Development plays a vital role. But you must be wondering how to choose the perfect developer for your web app and mobile app? A preview of what UI and UX (UI UX Development) is all about.

Mobile 78

Mobile Partner Developer Technical Review 78

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. Social media is not rocket science.

Burn Rate 310

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Salary Social Media 310

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

Intellectual Property 261

Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator Bootstrapping 261

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. This is NOT the same as or better than Search Engine Optimization (SEO). With PPC, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale).

Search 385

Search Engineer PPC Widget 385

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

For sales processes, machine learning is a dream come true. Not all sales tools are created equal, though. The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. Node, an AI-powered discovery engine , is going all-in on sales enablement.

Sales 90

Sales Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review 90

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 6, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan On August 20, Eric will sit down with developer and Hut8Labs co-founder Dan Milstein for a webcast you can join to discuss “Getting Engineers Into the Lean Startup Cycle.” This conversation will be a great opportunity for engineers and engineering managers to learn more about implementing Lean Startup ideas.

Lean 167

Lean Engineer Startup Cofounder 167

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.”

Engineer 198

Engineer Silicon Valley Part-Time VPE Advisory Board 198

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

Whether you are a Shopify designer, developer, industry authority, or someone who wants to start a Dropshipping business, to become an expert, you will have to learn all the crucial aspects of the marketplace. Unarguably, Shopify has many difficult aspects in growing in the development industry and web design.

Curation 140

Curation Portfolio eCommerce Programming 140

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 28, 2014

Note that summer sale pricing for the conference ends on Monday night, so register now for the best deal possible. Generally, operational excellence is far more important for a VP of Engineering or a VP of Sales than for a VP of Marketing or CFO. Herewith, our introductions. Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz.

Part-Time VPE 160

Part-Time VPE Sales Lean Cofounder 160

View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer? office, right in the heart of MIT.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Engineer Software Review Founder 120

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. Of if your VP Sales isn’t complaining about marketing she’s trying to get the function reporting to her. Engineering? Do you hire more sales people?

CTO Hire 385

CTO Hire Entrepreneur Technical Review Leadership 385

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle. Startup founders counting the days until break-even or actively seeking outside capital must focus on streamlining their development cycles. Implement Standardized Development Processes. Stay Lean and Low.

Cost 100

Cost Developer Small Business Administration Marketing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

Finance 320

Finance Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 320

Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

At times I’ll do what I consider an extension of teaching; a two-day Customer Discovery/Validation intensive session with a large corporation serious about Customer Development at my ranch on the California Coast. We’re Not Here for a Sales Call. But we are not here for a sales call.&#.

Customer Development 235

Customer Development Developer Customer South America 235

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

A while back I wrote a bunch of posts on Sales & Marketing and have been meaning to get back to that theme for a while. Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development.

Hiring 346

Hiring Sales Startup Early Stage 346

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2019

by Ryan Moore, Director of Client Management, Peak Sales Recruiting. tech industry , companies using steel , and manufacturers of engineered hardwood floors are already feeling the pain. Here are four ways your sales team can help when tariffs are putting pressure on profits: 1. Mexico, and Canada.

Sales 104

Sales Mexico China Canada 104

Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec.

Part-Time VPE 48

Part-Time VPE Engineer Retention API 48

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biggest Takeaway: While significant progress has been made in AI, we are still in the early stages of its development. The future of AI lies in developing models that can understand the context and differentiate between right and wrong answers. Click here to listen to the episode.

Fractional CTO 77

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review Marketing 77

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2020

Redesigning a website is a great way to drum up some new traffic, encourage users to give your new page a look, and re-establish yourself with the major search engines after an overhaul. This is a great way to stay relevant without sending out sales-y emails, and could result in some good engagement. Improve Your SEO Efforts.

Design 153

Design SEO Engineer Web Development 153

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Your product pages are almost like an advert for your items and if they’re suboptimal, you’ll struggle to make sales. Optimizing your product pages also enhances your site’s credibility and increases your chances of ranking highly on search engine results pages. . Hire professional developers and photographers.

Product 120

Product Web Development eCommerce Engineer 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2024

This can be the beginning of a profitable customer relationship or a disappointing sinkhole of wasted time, money, resources, and a demoralized engineering team. This was going to require our small, overcommitted engineering team to turn the MVP into a serviceable prototype. So we built rigor into our sales process.

Founder 325

Founder Engineer Sales Conversion 325

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

VP of Sales, Monetate - Philadelphia, PA A finger hovers above a mouse button. Using Monetate Real-time Marketer, companies are boosting sales while slashing costs and time-to-market. The company is not just looking for a VP of Sales, but for a champion for all things sales throughout the organization. It wants to click.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

SVPG

MAY 19, 2016

There is a very common fallacy about developers in our industry, and I think it hurts countless companies. Have you ever heard the old accusation that developers only want to solve problems for themselves? It wasn’t actually until eBay that I was responsible for creating products for people other than developers.

Developer 60

Developer Engineer Design Customer 60

ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

There are emerging marketplaces in the chemical industry seeking to increase sales in 2022 by helping both the chemical buyers and sellers to be able to find each other. There has been a Significant Interruption in Traditional Channels for Sales and Sourcing. It offers online chemical sales and purchases. Seller side platforms.

Germany 175

Germany San Jose Technical Review India 175

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. Social media is not rocket science.

Burn Rate 223

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 223

Transformify

MAY 28, 2018

As a skilled C++ 3D Graphics Developer, you would be part of a dedicated team for desktop application development projects and an integral part of Scopic. sockets, TCP connection) • Shader programming • Unreal Engine. You communicate well in English, take pride in producing your best work and deliver on schedule.

Developer 40

Developer North America PHP Software Review 40

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. According to the Adjust and Sensor Tower report, in 2021, m-commerce accumulated 54% of all e-commerce sales worldwide, whose market exceeds $3.5 Only in 2021, 72.9%

eCommerce 185

eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics 185

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

Complicating the development of a useful product is the stringent safety and compliance approval testing that varies based on country and industry. Businesses have a lot to think about when they have a new product idea and one missed step in the product development lifecycle can significantly impact business success.

Design 133

Design Development Team Review Product Technical Review 133

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2017

The Sharks tend to like businesses that come with some matured development in terms of recent and growing sales and most of the ones that don’t get a deal have significant inventories of product and assets without any supporting sales. They put their energies in important things, but not the ONE MOST CRITICAL thing…Sales.

Sales 62

Sales Technical Support Channel Distribution 62

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.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

To optimize your website for conversions, an experienced web development company will typically identify the reasons for the high bounce rate and address them using one or several of these tactics: Make the Website Load Faster by Decluttering It. Make Effective Use of Colors. Have an FAQ Page.

Design 183

Design Web Development Bandwidth Egypt 183

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2018

5 Steps to Small Business Search Engine Optimization written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When focusing on your strategy, start by developing a list of problems that your target audience is experiencing that you can help them solve. That’s how you think strategically about search engine optimization.

Search 68

Search Engineer Small Business SEO 68