Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. Convenience First and foremost, you must decided whether to work with individuals or development companies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Prior to the JAIC General Shanahan ran Project Maven, an unintentional dry-run for how the DOD and commercial companies could partner (or not) to build AI-enabled apps. Maven partnered with Google to build a computer vision tool for imagery analysts to automatically detect objects/targets. We started with a cross-functional team.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

Technical teams that offer these services are usually trained and certified, for example, Salesforce and ServiceNow developers. These include a mixture of implementation and configuration offerings from the cloud vendors themselves, along with system integrators. Enter Salto. Congrats Team Salto for this $42m financing: onwards!

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But that’s outsourcing development — it does not mean have a boundaryless team. These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. Why have remote, distributed teams suddenly become the smart way to build software companies? Reason One: Software is Eating the World.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Once again, along with my partners at 500 Startups, we are proud to present the most substantive track at SXSW: [link] There was a running joke last year that "the Lean Startup track was the only place at SXSW you couldn't get out of the building." STAY #500STRONG ON THE INTERWEBS OUR STARTUP LOVIN' PARTNERS. We're back!

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2018

IoT also impacts organizations by creating new positions and job descriptions such as Chief Internet of Things Officer (CIoTO), IoT Architect, IoT software engineer, Business Designer, IoT Stack and platform Developers and more. Existing jobs are changing too and some become more important.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

I’m in San Francisco, attending the Google I/O , Google’s flagship developer conference. Learn how they attract investors, partners, recruiting. There are plenty of investors that are looking for developers that know how to get traction and can end up in the right market. Development for equity.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Speakers and partners of Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, and other world-leading companies came up with the services and products which will support the new technology and are to be released in 2019. Also, they can be partners for customers by means of supporting them through continuous technical innovation and industry cooperation.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

It's challenging to build, design and deploy software. A quick note, while I primarily talk about co-founders, the same principals should also be applied to interacting with all early employees as you really are partners on the mission to build a great product. Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. Taking My Class. Hear Eric explain what they learned.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Having founded active campaign as a means to fund his education, Jason pursued a degree in fine arts until shifting his focus entirely to growing the company and his self-taught software engineer and technologist. Partner feedback is so important.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. As part of the Lightspeed Venture Partner Summer Fellowship program, I ask guest speakers to come in each week and talk to the Fellows about key topics related to building a successful startup. “Early on, you make almost every decision,” said Faul.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Capital Factory at 7:00 pm.

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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? It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. Not worth it. Build prototypes and/or product.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2010

People who develop broad skills also tend to develop a good mental model of how different layers of a system behave. One of our software engineers wrote all the code. My partner Dave Jilk, also a full-stack programmer (and a much better one than me), helped immensely as he completely grokked relational database theory.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

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.”. Kleiner Perkins Partners With Rock Health To Give Health Tech Startups A Boost. Latest in Gadgets.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

4- Description of our software. As procurement software, Tradogram helps businesses to “trade” with one another by managing the process of buying, selling or exchanging commodities and services. 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. Thanks to Chris Gardner, Artemis Consultants ! #4- Photo Credit: Hani Abdou.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2013

How does a small app developer manage to distinguish itself on the new Microsoft Office app store? To a small app developer like Gliffy , that means waves of curious customers will soon be searching the Office App Store for new tools. ‘We were thinking, is there any other software package that is larger, worldwide? .

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OnlyOnce

JULY 1, 2014

Also like Remote , the book was written by the founder and CEO of a relatively small firm that is predominately software engineers, so there are some limitations to its specific lessons unless you adapt them to your own environment. Like Remote which I reviewed a few weeks ago, Joy, Inc.

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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. Jennifer Aldoretta (@JAldoretta) | Twitter Joseph Beard Partner Perot Jain, L.P.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

2012 has proved to be a great year for developers – at least as far as financial compensation goes. The continuing tech boom has resulted in strong competition for top engineering talent, resulting in a subsequent upward surge in salary scales as well. But how much has it grown? Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. Web Developer.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2018

. * Whiteboard interviews are a great way to gauge how someone will work with other engineers on the team. So, see the interviewer as your partner when trying to solve the problem. Building great software is all about teamwork, and a defensive attitude when your ideas are challenged communicates that you won’t be a good team member.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

If a technology makes sense on the roadmap, make sure it can also deliver quality software that people will want to use today. Engineer the experience so you can evolve the product. The goal of this sponsorship was to build a network of partners that can help Walmart innovate and deliver tangible results.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? Accounting?

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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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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. They are not looking to benefit by partnering with your company. They’re looking to benefit by partnering with companies like yours.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

I love developing new skills and there is never a better time than the ‘New Year’s resolution’ to decide what you want to focus on for the year ahead. 4- Partner and create books. Find (at least) three institutional partners who will use us. Have potential partners reach out to us. 5- Give back.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Hersman also co-founded Ushahidi, an open source software firm. The next step would be to secure funding.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 25, 2014

Also like Remote , the book was written by the founder and CEO of a relatively small firm that is predominately software engineers, so there are some limitations to its specific lessons unless you adapt them to your own environment. Like Remote which I reviewed a few weeks ago, Joy, Inc.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The Global Competitiveness Index is based on 12 pillars of competitiveness, which together provide a comprehensive picture of the competitiveness landscape in 139 economies around the world at all stages of development. Attenti’s two principal investors, Francisco Partners and the Israeli branch of the U.S. Diversified U.S.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

We launched the CODE2040 Fellows Program, which places top black and Latino/a software engineering students in internships, with five students in summer 2012. We partnered with Google for Entrepreneurs in 2015 to begin to bring our work national, with a focus on entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But I would point out that these days there are really talented tech developers & teams everywhere. Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. Here are mine: 1.

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