Early Stage Founder Silicon Valley Software Engineering 
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. ” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money. Would you mind sharing them?
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VC Cafe
JUNE 29, 2012
You’re in Silicon valley, competing against the best of the best. When I met Instagram, Kevin (the founder) had great numbers, but he wasn’t even thinking about revenue. I invested in a company called Yobongo – the founder blew me away, he ended up selling his company and I made most of my money back.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 15, 2016
The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide.
David Teten
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 29, 2015
Don is one of the most highly respected business executives in Silicon Valley and deservedly so. Inevitably, founders must someday hire senior leaders who have years more experience than they do. It is easy to use a cookie-cutter job description; we need software engineers, here’s what a great software engineer looks like.
techcrunch.com
JUNE 22, 2012
This is where a lot of founders get stuck. Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements.
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