ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2014

According to its blog, LinkedIn “compiled the list by analyzing millions of interactions between Bay Area startups with less than 500 employees and the more than 337,000 Bay Area software engineers and IT professionals on LinkedIn.” Others, however, say “management only cares about the engineers.”

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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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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Indeed.com said that Austin is the best place for a software engineer to get a job where his paycheck goes the farthest compared to the cost of living. Apple’s largest headquarters is in Austin (more employees than Cupertino!) Here is a partial list of the Capital Factory Partners who are backing this investment.

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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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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 31, 2018

My partner and I joked about being night owls so it all came together to become Infinite Owl Marketing and Design Studio, our full-service marketing agency for content and creative strategy and execution. I knew from the beginning that I was going to build my business and would have employees in the future. 13- After my grandfather.

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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. GeekWire Partners. Contact Us.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. I’m listing instead companies that are A) under 100 employees AND B) adding >10 employees in the next 3 months. Investors: Antonio Rodriguez – Matrix Partners, HP ( blog , @antrod). David Skok – Matrix Partners ( blog , @bostonvc).

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Wayfair - $350M + revenue, 300 employees. Investors: Antonio Rodriguez – Matrix Partners, HP ( blog , @antrod ). David Skok – Matrix Partners ( blog , @bostonvc ). Beautiful space in the South Boston Innovation District. Ruby specialists.

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

They really care about their employees, and have enough money to buy a fair amount of happiness. My team and I have created Happster, the first product created to take employee happiness to new heights through positive psychology. Starting with just a push mower I grew that business to 70 trucks and 145 employees. 4 – Sr.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2018

“Companies and employees who embrace the rapidly transforming digital landscape stand to achieve the greatest success,” says Mike Train, executive president, Emerson Automation Solutions. SUN has 154 employees and a 184,000 square foot facility. “But everyone has skin in the game. ” Attracting Millennials. .

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Dedication: At a typical organization, dedication of its employees is important. Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr. But at a startup, it’s critical.

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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? Personally I feel the 'convey meaning but are made up words' approach are a marketing nightmare.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. With the inflow of real-time information and people coming at you from all sides and demanding your attention (employees, investors, customers, etc), it's hard to find enough proactive time in the day.

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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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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners? 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. How will we find and interview developers?

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 My second employee signed the H1-B petition on behalf of the company so that I could be hired by my own company!

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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. “As a leader, you’re a storyteller,” Faul said.

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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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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Certainly not to say they couldnt have raised more cash and built this in to a bigger company, but was nice to have the option of going either way and doing what was right for the founders and employees. Finally, Ilya Ronin, shared the Marpo Kinetics story, a true bootstrapped garage start-up.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I pitched potential teammates to join me, investors to fund us, businesses to partner with us and customers to use us. I learned that software engineers?—?or customers, other employees, books, blogs, social media, news?—?and or developers?—?are are just as much artists as they are scientists.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

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. Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. You can be talking with potential employees all along the process getting them excited. Treat this person like your true partner where you share all information with them and involving them in the decision-making processes. Build prototypes and/or product.

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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? 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.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Wayfair - $350M + revenue, 300 employees. Investors: Antonio Rodriguez – Matrix Partners, HP ( blog , @antrod ). David Skok – Matrix Partners ( blog , @bostonvc ). Hack/Reduce – Big Data Hackspace. 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?? Those are the ppl who wanted to be co-founders not employees).

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

I assume both cofounders will be diluted equally as more employees and investors get involved. Self Promotion Hirelite is having its first web-based "speed interviewing" event on July 27th for companies and startups in NYC looking for software engineers. Why should a technical cofounder get so much of the company?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in First Round has been an incredible partner in our journey from startup to public company. investors, employees, clients, and partners. The Chief Resource Officer is responsible for attracting the best clients, partners, investors, advisors, and, of course, employees.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

For them — and anyone else who wants to increase their employees productivity and sanity — lets take a look at some of the assumptions management makes regarding hours, output, efficiency, and production costs; and see how a century of industrial research has conclusively, consistently proven those assumptions wrong. Its ironic.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

If you are a creative guy with a good head for business looking for an engineering partner, send me a summary of your idea and business plan, and I'll do the implementation!" I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. I went to the Columbia Engineering Career Fair in October 2009 and left with ~150 resumes. Doubtful we’d have access to such a rich employee pool any other way. Date for a bit, then split the equity.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. The three of us had the exact opposite mentality and created a company that prioritizes employee and client retention. Thanks to Emily Mazza, Mazza Virtual Assistants ! #7- Photo Credit: Steven Randall.

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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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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The night I decided to start the company, my wife and I were having dinner with the man who would be our first employee and our creative director for the first twelve years. Lowground Records was the easiest business I have ever named and I knew the name fit the second my business partner said it. Photo Credit: Scott Harris.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next.

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