The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2019

Becoming a technical support specialist requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a similar field. Web developers may also be referred to as internet engineers, multimedia architects, or web producers. . Their career titles are as diverse as the portfolios they create.

Technology 77

Technology Technical Support Web Development Database 77

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

So when I meet with GRP portfolio companies that do enterprise sales I try to emphasize the following: 1. Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team. And chances are you’re in big need of a killer customer reference. [it's all in this article if you want the details].

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Software Review Software IP Technical Review 321

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

The best software engineering companies always prioritize exploring all of the possibilities to find the most accurate solutions as they can. The case studies and references. Ones would not be so sure if the specific company can be a prevalent choice for them or not without looking at their vendor’s portfolio.

Artificial Inteligence 91

Artificial Inteligence Software Engineering Analytics Engineer 91

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. The Review.

CTO Hire 52

CTO Hire Engineer Software Review Part-Time VPE 52

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

You want to showcase your best engineers in the process balanced with those who are good interviewers (which can be wildly different). Have an awesome engineering process that you are pros at and can showcase in the interview. Reference check – oh man how many times do I have to learn this lesson.

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Software Developers Software Development Startup Hiring 136

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

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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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

David Teten

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Last week I had a chance to interview Kyle Stalzer, President at Tackk (a portfolio company of my firm, ff Venture Capital ), about an issue that’s top of mind for a lot of our companies: How to Recruit an A-Quality Designer for Your Company. Internet marketers help increase traffic to your site through search engine optimization.

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Design Web Hiring Offshore 114

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Hopefully, one of the ideas listed below will strike a chord and excite you enough to download our startup checklist —your first point of reference as you begin your entrepreneurial journey. To kickstart your career, set up a profile on popular freelance websites like Upwork and Freelancer and start building your portfolio.

Social Media 60

Social Media Portfolio SEO Web 60

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

In this case Wicked doesn’t mean morally evil, but refers to really complex problems, ones with multiple moving parts, where the solution isn’t obvious. Startups vs. Large Companies vs. Governments Innovation at Speed for Horizon 1, 2 and 3 (Managing the Portfolio across Horizons) What is Systems Thinking?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided. That of course will mean more referring keyword data will disappear. We are headed towards having zero referring keywords from Google and, perhaps, other search engines. But it is difficult to not look at the wider picture.

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Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Among the most important information to include: details on return history, legal documents, fund organization chart, portfolio construction model , portfolio company 1-pagers, key personnel resumes, and case studies of past investments. For your reference, here is our current deck (link).” We are using Digify to manage this.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2020

The advice many stock managers tend to give is to diversify your portfolio of stocks. Any reason to do lots of research before buying any stocks is so that you can diversify your stock portfolio as much as possible. Freelance Copywriting.

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Affiliate Stock Dividend Portfolio 178

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 21, 2015

One of the best parts about having a strong portfolio filled with smart people is the wise advice that founders share with each other. In this case, one of V1’s portfolio companies has been looking to hire a VP of Sales and I asked Jon Zimmerman ( @jpzimmerman ), CEO of Front Desk , to share his experiences and insight on the matter.

Sales 60

Sales Hiring Vertical Portfolio 60

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. Details here.

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. Corporate venture funds are often referred to as ‘strategic’ investors because of the unique benefits they bring to the table.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” often referred to as business analytics?—?is Don’t get trapped inside four walls?—?invest

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." You should do your homework and not pitch investors who have competing companies in their portfolios. Have references ready to say nice things about you when investors call them.

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Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. Authors Note: Were using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. March 28, 2013.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2020

just don’t, especially if it refers to a woman. person hours, engineering hours. Before founding Writer, May was a vice president at one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, where she was the first employee on the technology investment team, building a portfolio now worth over $20B.

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Cofounder New York Portfolio Software 269

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

When people refer to a strategic investor they are usually talking about an investor that comes from the industry you serve as opposed to an independent venture capital investor. But even he would feel conflicted when I had to cut the engineering team because he valued our product more than his investment.

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Strategic Investors Venture Capital Due Diligence Early Stage 279

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

I helped make this decision by “triangulating&# between our DBA, lead technical architect and our VP of Engineering (who had a better grasp of the financial costs & development costs of each decision). I also make visits to senior level customers of portfolio companies with which I’m involved.

CTO Hire 308

CTO Hire Management Technical Review Part-Time VPE 308

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. Paid Engineering – One final thing I would often ask for that I see very few others doing is “paid engineering.” I need to give credit for the topic to PR Malloy who Tweeted me this question.

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PR Early Stage Software Naming 150

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.)

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API Fractional CTO CTO Hire San Francisco 48

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Like everything in life, you want a balanced portfolio (left). Prioritize using a mix of bounce and page value, analyze details using referring keywords and referring urls (drilldowns are already built into above custom report!). Traffic Sources > Search Engine Optimization > Geographical Summary. Goals Report.

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Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

Ben's Blog

JULY 13, 2010

Their breakthrough architecture enabled them to run engineering at half the percentage of revenue of both their online and offline competitors. The founding CEO, Todd McKinnon, previously ran Salesforce.com’s engineering organization from the early days (8 engineers) to large scale.

Cloud 77

Cloud Architecture Software Review Database 77

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. So be careful with your hiring, take a lot more time, look at a lot more candidates, check a lot more references and don’t just make a hire out of desperation. Photo Credit: Brian Gill. How did you rebound?

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Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 56

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. So be careful with your hiring, take a lot more time, look at a lot more candidates, check a lot more references and don’t just make a hire out of desperation. Photo Credit: Brian Gill. How did you rebound?

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 54

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2022

For example, I was sort of a non-engineer jack of all trades when I worked at Linden Lab (makers of virtual world, err metaverse, Second Life). Prep your manager, peers to be references. Basically replenish your reference checks. Perhaps even ask founder/CEO for a favor chit. It’s not about pros and cons, but tradeoffs.

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Stock Options Vesting Stock Valuation 94

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Customer Marketing Lean Vertical 420

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

After that conversation, I called around to learn more about Brian, Joe and Nate, and I got really strong references. As is my usual practice, I’d checked references on the founders before I met with them. And if the reference checks come back positively, then if I believe at startup is a good opportunity, I can lean in right away.

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Hosting Hockey Stick IPO Silicon Valley 69

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

21 Creative online portfolio sites and applications – [link]. 10 Things Clients Look For In a Design Portfolio – [link]. Startup Priorities: Is Design More Important Than Engineering? How Do You Reference Check a VC? Showcase of Hotel Website Designs - [link]. Attractive Forms With jQuery: Uniform - [link].

Social Media 77

Social Media Small Business Design Media 77

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. 3) Shallow reference checking. Immediately.

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Hiring Software Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley 44

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 14, 2020

Here’s a great explanation of Kaplan-Meier curves from George: For trending charts and KM curves (also referred to as survival analysis), we made this switch that seems small but is actually fundamental to the way we look at our business. . to see if something is improving. The first example is looking at our in flight metrics (e.g.

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Metrics Framework .Net Conversion 87

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

with the portfolio to show for it. I referenced this in detail at the CEO Summit, and instead of repeat it here I’ll refer you to this Lucky7 post where I discuss our unique recruiting process in great detail. Spend the time to really get to know them and check their references. in our Series A. Don’t get starstruck by pedigree.

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Founder Cofounder Software Review San Francisco 51

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

To Apply: Email jobs@Thrillbox.com and reference the Capital Factory intern program. To Apply: Email jobs@Thrillbox.com and reference the Capital Factory intern program. Internship Title: Data Sciences Intern Compensation: Unpaid Description: The Data Sciences Intern will assist the COO in data visualization using Tableau & D3.

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Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

.” It’s an important nuance, as there is a big difference between a fully distributed workforce (which the blockchain kids refer to as a “decentralized workforce”) and a multi-location workforce. This is especially true for companies headquartered in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and New York.

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