Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

revenue / traction / setting up infrastructure / etc) This can set you apart, because the vast majority of businesses I see at the seed stage are just ideas with no action. Demonstrate that you can pull the trigger on things quickly — whether it be getting customers, hiring / firing employees, or product development.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Our revenue model was wrong.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

One of my favorite episodes who should be your first hire, what's your funding plan, Dr. Lisa Cravin shares her top advice from building spotlight oral. I do know in looking at a little bit of your background, you're not software engineers, you didn't grow up in, in that necessarily. Lori does not.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Our revenue model was wrong.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

We launched the CODE2040 Fellows Program, which places top black and Latino/a software engineering students in internships, with five students in summer 2012. Is there a revenue generating aspect to the organization that makes it self-sustainable? HW: How do you structure CODE2040’s funding base?

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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? World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. It’s a new year and right after the ball drops, it’s time to go to work. Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A recent job posting by zlien , a construction industry software company, frames the product manager’s mindset this way: Do you find yourself staring at a complex world and identifying problems to engineer away? so that the talent, the designers, engineers, analysts and data scientists, can focus on their core work.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). Wayfair - $350M + revenue, 300 employees. Beautiful space in the South Boston Innovation District. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3. Ruby specialists. Places to Hang.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? I’ve been able to study the Southern Cal software dev scene as an insider for over 2 years now. Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. The So Cal Drupal scene is highly regarded and has several free meetings every week to teach advanced software life cycle issues.

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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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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. it doesn't much matter who you hire in terms of risk. Scope and a quickly released 1.0

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

Technology is supposed to be easy-to-use and useful, and that is where the “Levittown” payment software companies excel. All software is supposed to save time, raise revenue, cut costs and boost productivity, but we now know how difficult it is to meet those goals. They’re chopping costs and upping revenue.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I was making about half as much money as I did as a software developer, which wasn't great, but it was like, okay, this is all right. But when I switched from that to online ordering the revenue and the business tripled with the same customer base and, and I realized just how much friction there was in the ordering process.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2019

Increase recurring revenue. This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason [.] Repeat customers generate up to 40% of a store’s overall revenue , and retaining them can be up to 20 times cheaper than acquiring new customers. Increase brand reputation. Retain loyal clients.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). Wayfair - $350M + revenue, 300 employees. Just hired Yahoo’s VP Media Sales. Hack/Reduce – Big Data Hackspace. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3. Worked with.

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David Teten

AUGUST 5, 2013

Yes, they’ve founded multi-billion dollar businesses with virtually no formal business training, with combined revenues of over $80 billion. But they are also former software engineers and hackers, an experience that undoubtedly taught them skills in critical thinking and problem solving.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. I have a bachelor's in computer science and computer engineering. And then I, of course, need revenue for this." When the pandemic hit, Irma and Jake turned their attention to another problem.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Nothing says more about your culture than who you hire, who you fire, and who you promote. For example, I hired three CFOs in six years. Like the time I hired an executive that didn’t reflect our values and had to explain in front of the entire company how I had made a mistake. The CEO has the most power to make these decisions.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. To hire people to crop pictures for customers who will not know they are dissatisfied? Oddly enough, this doesn’t mean removing pages.

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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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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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