Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

They make hardware with a large part of their innovation in embedded software and services. The CFO asked me to stay as one of the engineering directors came in for a meeting. So, this was a meeting of last resort, as the engineering director was making one last appeal to the CFO to keep his team in town. I wish I hadn’t.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. The second is to demonstrate the reach of the product.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. For example, Lean Startup offers many benefits to emerging organizations, especially considering its focus on crafting a minimum viable product (MVP).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

As a new entrepreneur or business owner, the most important thing you will do is hire talent. Hiring = Sales. Robert Metcalfe, co-founder and CEO of 3Com, says you need to think about it as “recruiting, not hiring”. As an example, the reasons we provide to prospective engineers are 1. Know When To Hire.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2019

Steve Jobs is often hailed as a technological genius, but his hiring principles are equally stellar: he was famously in favor of hiring only the best professionals. This self-policing effectively became the company’s culture and allowed their teams to create many great products. Its product? It improves company brand.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Why Shipping Is Important When Building Shipping defines software engineering in a magical way that is challenging to understand. The appeal is that scaling a product to millions of users simply requires a focused team. Shipping means a product worth using. So what exactly does shipping mean?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

You can hire remote developers. The best software engineering companies always prioritize exploring all of the possibilities to find the most accurate solutions as they can. The best software engineering companies always prioritize exploring all of the possibilities to find the most accurate solutions as they can.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Today we’re excited to share the official launch of Replay , a browser that records all of the context that developers and engineers need to fix bugs faster. The need for Replay is pretty obvious; every developer/engineer spends countless hours debugging their code. But now, when an engineer gets stuck, they can share a replay.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 15, 2017

In the past, I have shared some insight on recruiting and hiring data scientists from my time at Insight Data Science. . . Source: Data Scientists Are Analysts are Also Software Engineers , William Whipple Neely. You might be wondering if it is better to hire someone who is stronger technically or business-wise?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 14, 2020

Hiring could be the most important aspect of your startup’s growth. Nowadays, all companies’ operations involve technology up to a certain point and finding the best software developers is also something that will help your company stand out from others in the field. Have you tried hiring someone smarter than you?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Without producing physical goods, every entrepreneur now can succeed in selling other manufacturers’ products online. Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? One of the simplest ways to construct a product like Etsy is to use WordPress Etsy themes. Junior engineers cannot deliver a high-quality product.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. This may sound shocking, but sales people are different than engineers and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. This may sound shocking, but sales people are different than engineers and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Since then, over 400 Insight alumni have been hired as data scientists or data engineers at top tier companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Airbnb, and Google. However, drawing math-loving engineers from the tech talent pool isn’t a sustainable strategy. Finding a data scientist is hard. Let’s look in a different haystack!

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

So, too, is the level of competence required to engineer a product. In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. Software was expensive. Engineers, however, were relatively cheap. No Problem! While it seems quaint now, it used to be expensive to build an app and start a company around it.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Are you are a startup that needs to market your products and services ? Either way, custom software development is an effective way to build brand awareness and give your business a competitive edge. If you want app development that is both affordable and efficient, you need to know how to hire programmers to do the job.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. Third party products are used appropriately. We are producing the right functionality, but is the code that's being produced the right product? Plan for past the initial MVP.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Product and Engineering. 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. First Round Capital. The Review. Plusstartup.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Jun 21, 2013. Enter recruiters or HR people.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

Today in the tech industry, we’re entering an era of Levittown software, and the change is important for all businesses. Technology companies now build Levittown-style products that are appropriate for a wide range of industries. The base product is quickly deployed, cost-effective and customizable.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

by Melissa Lincoln, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Leadspace. As any engineering VP based in San Francisco knows, it’s a competitive market for technical talent. The nation of Israel, on the other hand, provides an ideal pillar of technical expertise to support a growing B2B software company.

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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. Unfortunately, positioning our product as an "IM add-on" was a complete mistake.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The good news for startups and other businesses with limited funds (or, who have financially savvy owners) is that you don’t (necessarily) need to hire an expensive team of software developers to create an app. It’s an important first step regardless of whether you are hiring a professional team or designing the mobile app yourself.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2016

If you have a team of software engineers, perhaps they could benefit with some soft skills training. If your team deals with infrastructure engineering you could send them for a one-day course on the cables and components they specify. Why not hire a speaker to come training staff overcome their fear of public speaking.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

The traditional advantages of small businesses over corporations are personalized service and an inventory of niche products tailored to their local market. In light of this, software developers are beginning to cater to the digital transformation needs of SMBs. Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The first was a shakeup in our software engineering team, which was originally based out of New York City. We used an agile coach to help us navigate the challenges of remote working on a software engineering project and the project went extremely well. Is this why you decided to introduce remote work at AVP?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Moreover, as both React and React Native are based on Javascript, you need to hire only one team of Javascript developers. Alexander Grigoryan, the senior director for software engineering, application platform and online grocery for Walmart Global eCommerce, tells that his team looked at various options for building its cross-platform apps.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 2, 2013

Another thing they have in common: I find most high-tech startup founders are software engineers enamored with the idea of waking late, sidling up to a coffeeshop table, pecking away at an IDE, getting into the zone for hours at a stretch, and doing what they love – coding something of their own invention.

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Transformify

MAY 15, 2023

And the only way to do that is by being creative and strategic with your approach to hiring software developers. This blog will provide you with some tips to identify and attract the best software developer talents. Ways To Attract The Best Software Development Talent Hiring the best talent always starts with attracting them.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Call it whatever you like, but when businesses are hiring for any of those titles they simply want somebody who can generate lots of quality leads for as little cash as possible.”. A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well. Product vs. Growth?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The first phase, before they get to product market fit, is all about technology leadership; startups focus on their technical vision, building their products or services, getting customer feedback. You want to make a lasting impact, and you should hire people who aspire to that.” Dealing with Uncertainty.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

There is an unspoken rule: to launch a startup, you need to build a product, and to do that you need someone that can write code. Most importantly, unlike the majority of their peers, by the time they start building a product, they already have a humming business. Focus on serving customers instead of building a product.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Tech startups were running out of cash prior to launching great products over talent shortage and ever-increasing salaries and rents. At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc.

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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. Simply put, the return on investment on your product or service is LTV minus CAC. He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc.

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