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Kevin Federline Search Engine

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. in Computer Science.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

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He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

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Another avenue is looking for CTOs/VP Engineering via LinkedIn. They will have the title Lead or Manager. As I mention in Symptoms of a Weak Development Team , the number one reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. The last 10% takes the other 90%.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

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These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc. How strong is product management? It''s hard to manage a development team when you are not very technical. Some of the top symptoms are: Frequently missed deadlines.

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Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups

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Lead Engineer 0.5 – 1 5+ years experience Engineer 0.33 – 0.66 Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33 Wilson Sonsini and DFJ Gotham Ventures : The Option Pool Shuffle : Title Range (%) CEO 5 – 10 COO 2 – 5 VP 1 – 2 Independent Board Member 1 Director 0.4 – 1.25 It's important to note that this is all post Series A.

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

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I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable. This question came up last week.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0 m pleased.