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How to Onboard Remote Engineers: A Practical Guide from an Expert

ReadWriteStart

Here is how to onboard remote engineers — with a practical guide from an expert. Most of the time, companies that do a bad job fail to do the following things: The new engineer isn’t briefed on the company, what they’re building, or what the mission is. New engineers should also know when performance reviews will happen.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) Type of IP. _. The test for non-obvious is: given the prior art at the time of the invention, would a typical engineer 1) identify the problem, and 2) solve it with the invention? Examples. _.

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

On the infrastructure side, Epic owns ‘Unreal Engine’ the second most popular 3D graphic engine, and creator of MetaHumans, a digital twin rendering software that can be used to create hyper realistic characters to ‘populate’ the Metaverse. The largest and most popular 3D engine has big plans for the Metaverse.

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Optimize Your Toolset To Tackle Today’s Network Issues

YoungUpstarts

What follows is an outline of the core challenges each of these trends presents and suggestions on how network engineers can overcome them. There are three primary cloud-related challenges network engineers face today. It’s beneficial for network engineers to know if users’ virtual sessions are running smoothly and under control.

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Technical SEO for Startups with Jacque Alec at Capconvert

Mucker Lab

Understanding the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) A good way to think about search is essentially as roadmaps drawn by targeted keywords, which branches outward to create intersections that become digital real estate - websites, media, ads, and more. High authority often leads to higher search engine rankings.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

At Sirius Decisions Summit , Tony Jaros, President and Chief Product Offiver at Dirus Decisions at the time, shared that when organizations are aligned across the revenue engine, they see an average of 19% faster revenue growth and 15% higher profitability. Use IP-identification to better serve your customers.

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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

Both Sides of the Table

Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team. Importantly, make sure that you retain IP rights to your custom work which needs to be part of the engagement contract. At a minimum co-ownership of the IP. If not specified in contract you might find yourself with future litigation over IP.