ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. The goal of the Boston Startup School is to take people interested in working in startups and give them the skills they need to be good employees. O’Hearn said.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

by Enrico Moretti, author of “ The New Geography of Jobs ” Over the past three months, Facebook, Zynga and Groupon have lost between 33% and 52% of their market value. Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs?

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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 Galvanize at 10:30 am. $79 79 entry fee.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 2011

In many ways the granddaddy of crowdsourcing platforms, Turk enables users to tap into it’s network of workers to perform tasks which computers are unable to do, but which humans can perform quickly and inexpensively. 275,000 software engineers work together on this platform to deliver results to client companies world-wide.

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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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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Online Resources and Newsletters: Bostinno : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Next major event?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. 5) Network the candidate’s contacts. Here are my top 6 pieces of advice if you’re looking to hire: 1) Fast turnaround between interviews.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. Dedication: At a typical organization, dedication of its employees is important. Personal Network: Ask your friends and colleagues for suggestions.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

My last job prior to starting my own business was in medical device sales within the aesthetic space.This led me to start a digital marketing firm specializing in the aesthetic industry. They really care about their employees, and have enough money to buy a fair amount of happiness. . #1 – Medical Device Sales. 4 – Sr.

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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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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Names can be classified on a continuum based on how they communicate to consumers, says Nina Beckhardt, president of The Naming Group , an agency whose employees have crafted names for Walmart, Target and Puma. Does It Mean Something? So don’t be intimidated by the rules — just grab your thesaurus and get going.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Bostinnovation : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. VentureCafe - Networking venue within the CIC. Wayfair - $350M + revenue, 300 employees. HubSpot - Inbound marketing pioneer. Ruby specialists.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

6) Advise as if you were an employee. Personally, I take this from the vantage of an employee or consultant advising his or her superiors. Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Platform Software Developer. Software Cloud Engineer III.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. The talent market has gotten as competitive and aggressive as I have ever seen in the last 20 years. Senior executives have never been harder to secure.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

It found that sixty-two out of 100 venture funds it worked with failed to exceed returns available from the public markets, after fees and carry were paid. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. at Tableau Software.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? you should be able to find many options for an ad sales network.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? Unlike some larger, more mature organizations, most startups don't spend much time or effort helping grow their employees beyond the immediate needs of the startup. What options do we have? How do we balance those options?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mike Evans. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Mike Evans. Take The Marketing Assessment: Take the Assessment. Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In January 1995, it had around 100 employees. A few months later, it had 200 employees. One of those employees was a friend of mine, and when I heard him talk about what was going on there, I sometimes thought to myself, “Maybe I should try to get a job there too.” Follow your network.”. Trust your allies too.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Research your market. I know it’s obvious but I’m always surprised how many people just start building products without thinking enough about the market. DO NOT start with product, start with the market. It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. The decision is already made.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Online Resources and Newsletters: Bostinno : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. VentureCafe - Networking venue within the CIC. Wayfair - $350M + revenue, 300 employees. Entrepreneurial Development Firms.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Putting aside the questions of when you should find a technical person or whether that technical person should be a cofounder or an employee, today Im going to focus on the question that Elizabeth and I hear over and over (and over) again: How do I find a technical cofounder?? Be realistic about your idea and your market. ("Be

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Even if the technical cofounder doesnt prototype something first, they can still contribute more to the business and receive more equity (ex: someone who did marketing for 2 years out of undergrad manages to recruit a top 10th percentile programmer with a successful app in the iPhone app store).

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers. Scale comes later.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I set out to address the environmental hazard of single use plastic bags and all the waste they were (and still are) by introducing a better solution, ECOBAGS®, to the market; a reusable bag made both ethically and sustainably. 7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. 8-Provide high-quality personalized marketing.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Market maturity: Conversely, competitors are investing in a new featureset and thus, they’ve become table stakes. Market share: You may already be a category leader, and growth requires you to expand into new verticals. This is especially true if you’ve found a better way of solving it than existing products in the market.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

She is a member of the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network, a Fortune Most Powerful Women attendee, and has received numerous accolades, including being chosen as a Sam Walton Emerging Entrepreneur and American Express. Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry.

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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.). They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. More comments at the end. Everything, that is, but.NET.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Lessons to Learn By the time I joined Ardent I thought I was an experienced marketer, but I’ll never forget my first real lesson in what it meant to understand customers and product/market fit. For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry.

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www.fastcompany.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

But at some point I thought, ‘Do people really care about the 13 different electronic training networks that were going on in the 1990’s?’” So what does this suggest for those entering universities and the job market these days? It’s incredible; people don’t realize how many software engineers Wall Street takes off the market.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you. Last year, Amazon signed a major lease at 525 Market Street.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Many good freelancers are very busy right now and can be found through networking with friends or linked in.

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