The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. 3) Facebook.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

—— I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. At Tekes, government employees (and their hired consultants) – with no equity, no risk or reward, no startup or venture capital experience – try to pick startup winners and losers.

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SiliconHills

JULY 1, 2014

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News WP Engine, founded in 2010 at Capital Factory, has 150 employees in Austin and it’s hiring. San Antonio Austin Wordpress hosting WP Engine' The plucky startup also has another 10 employees in a satellite office in California.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. Joshua Baer is a serial entrepreneur and founder/Executive Director of Capital Factory , the largest coworking space and tech incubator in Austin.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Hire more non-Partner staff. – Hire more Partners. For a VC fund to be actively engaged in a large number of investments, it needs to hire more Partners to sit on more boards. If you’re thinking of hiring a Partner, I suggest see How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. Don’t raise just to get a salary or because you need to pay for servers. Who to raise from? How much to raise?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

This Invaluable Lesson Will Keep You From Making Catastrophic Hiring Mistakes - crowdspring.co/XeV4JS. Hiring startup engineers? 1871 Ranks 9th In The World In Survey Of Business Incubators – crowdspring.co/Xe1N6Y. Are startup burn rates out of control? They seem to be | AVC – crowdspring.co/1rbM5FT.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” This was a very large and established tech company; its engineering organization developed the core day-to-day capabilities of the organization. There’s a much better way.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford's Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. At Tekes, government employees (and their hired consultants) - with no equity, no risk or reward, no startup or venture capital experience - try to pick startup winners and losers.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Next, also from Chennai, India, Vivek Ravisankar pitched Interviewstreet.com , a nifty concept for testing programmers' skill levels in various key languages to bypass the lengthy interviewing that goes into screening candidates in a hiring process. You can register for the upcoming roundtables here. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Rajan Chandi then discussed HirePlug.com , a Facebook application to help large employers manage referral hiring. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. Doesn't Retek have anything in that product category? HirePlug.com.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Since then it has become much harder to find people and while we are talking about hiring relatively small numbers of people, the typical sources of candidates dont seem to be working. About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. in Computer Science.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship. Incubate non-Yalies.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Jobseekers, therefore, need help cleaning up their social media profiles so that objectionable material does not find its way to these background check scenarios, disrupting their chances of getting hired. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Chicago, IL.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

If the growth team has been working without a dedicated data analyst or data scientist, the company should consider hiring or moving one over to work with the team full-time. Beyond patching data gaps about product use and customer behavior, the team should also ask if it has the requisite analysis skills to make the most of the data at hand.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2013

Small businesses are the economic engine that drives the U.S. When you have a small team any new hire will affect the dynamic and balance, so it’s important you not only find the right person based on skillset but it’s equally important to find the right personality. New survey data from Constant Contact® , Inc.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages. Follow @TechCrunch. 2011 Holiday. Gift Guide. Crunchboard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. It’s an incredibly innovative city.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

When it comes to hiring, start-ups located outside of Silicon Valley have an initial advantage, because there’s a lot less competition for engineers. Smaller start-ups in Silicon Valley, particularly those in un-sexy markets, have a tough time drawing in top engineers and designers. But there are some considerations….

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Role models” haven’t made it quite as far the heroes, but as practising entrepreneurs they are fully up-to-date with the on-the-ground realities of fundraising, hiring, and interfacing with government. You’re supposed to demo the business, not just the product.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

They didn’t wait until their universities hired a director of this new program. It took me all of 45 minutes to setup the program—I wrote up a syllabus for 5 sessions, solicited feedback from a dozen or so product managers I knew (most of whom volunteered to speak), and called up Micah at the NYU/Poly Incubator to get the space.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires. I have metCTOs who manage divisions that had 500 - 1000 engineers or more. The CTO does supervise a small team(typically 10-50 engineers, depending on the size of the company) thatfunctions as an incubator for high risk technology directions.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses. A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses. Once there is a large marching army of engineers heading off in some direction and spending vast resources, it is pretty difficult and expensive to make changes. Growth, Profitability, and the Stock Price. Metrics for cyclical businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. Nothing is more demoralizing to an engineering team. leanstartup bmorrow : Not just for engineers: ask why 5x every time something unexpected happens.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

doing postdoctoral internships, supervised by faculty members or hired staff (many from Fred Terman’s WWII Electronic Warfare lab.) Many of the other staff in the applied program were full-time employees hired to work solely on these military programs. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If they hire an accountant to help prepare and file their taxes that may cost around $500. You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone. You now have an hourly rate range to work with.

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Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

But there’s one field that remains stubbornly unscientific: recruitment and hiring. Simply having administrators black out candidates’ names and addresses before they’re reviewed by hiring managers is one surprisingly effective, easy place to start. And can really bring down morale during a tough hiring process.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Finding country-specific resources: Incubators and accelerators. If you’re interested in finding offline resources to help you grow your business, you might want to start by looking into local business incubators and accelerators. Try variations on this formula: [industry name] business incubator/accelerator in [city, country].

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. The process recognizes that Innovation isn’t a single activity (an incubator, a class, etc.) That approach doesn’t work anymore.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). You can learn more about that by reading The engineering managers lament.) Their model looks like a key ingredient in the startup brew there.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. It’s an incredibly innovative city.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 22, 2015

In recent years VCs have been rushing to add value by hiring non-investors to help their portfolio companies. Note: I haven’t included accelerator programmes or incubators. Google Ventures: has teams that help portfolio companies with design, engineering, recruiting, marketing and partnerships.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer.

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