View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. Included in our recent investments in this category are both Dunwello (rethinking how employee feedback and reviews are delivered) and a stealthy investment in NYC empowering software engineers. Recent Investment Themes.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Addepar and PEVCTech invite you to a dinner and presentation on “Tracking, Analyzing, and Reducing Risk When Investing in a Diverse Portfolio of Illiquid Assets.” Our friends at Addepar will share insight into how their platform can be used to analyze collections of alternatives portfolios at huge scale.

NDA 60

NDA New York Software Engineering Portfolio 60

YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

The work history, clients, portfolio and reviews are gone, just like that? Rick has over 15 years of experience in software engineering, is the author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “, and has engineered a library of popular software algorithms (HackFastAlgos). Too big to fail.

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Hiring Software Review Startup API 113

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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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Our friends at Addepar will share insight into how their platform can be used to analyze collections of alternatives portfolios at huge scale. The speaker is Ben Cohen , Software Engineering Lead, Addepar. This presentation will be technical in nature, and geared towards those with an engineering background.

NDA 60

NDA New York Software Engineering Portfolio 60

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.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

If a software engineer, we will call him “Neo”, is needed on a project, then IT is asked if Neo can be assigned to the project. The company decided there was enough work to justify hiring Neo, our software engineer. Money is not needed to save the world.

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Management Software Engineering Green Engineer 150

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I want you to leave your job, where you’re getting free meals, where you’re living and working around a bunch of other software engineers. Why Should Silicon Valley Engineers and Our Students Get Involved? It’s working on a portfolio of 32 products in 6 verticals across the DOD. I want you to come into that.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Software Testing. Behance is Adobe’s portfolio website so it’s easy to miss this opportunity.

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Technical Review Software Review Search Portfolio 89

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 11, 2018

The other day, I was in a board meeting and we were talking about the need for a software engineer. After a couple of weeks, I had written to 500 people, talked to at least 20, and made a hire, after failing to do so for months. The team already had a lead on board. 3) Collaborate with other companies on sourcing through events.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation. Image by Getty Images via @daylife).

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Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. January 4, 2012.

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Transformify

MAY 15, 2023

The software development industry constantly evolves, and software professionals must keep pace with these changes. According to the 2022 State of Software Engineers survey, having opportunities for professional development and career growth is one of the elements of their ideal company.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Developer 52

thebarefootvc

MAY 20, 2019

While Microsoft continues to work with the ethereum blockchain for other projects, I found it telling that they chose to use the more proven bitcoin blockchain for such a key implementation. ” On the crypto side, Binance resumed trading services after its $40M hack.

Architecture 40

Architecture Software Engineering Security Portfolio 40

Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

This is a powerful offering for any business operations or IT professional who wants to both visualize and amend/push in production configurations of business applications without having to know each application’s specific language and syntax. Over recent years we have seen big organizations adopting hundreds of business programs.

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Cloud API Software Engineering Software 62

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

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

For many startups, this was the secret to massive success : David Quail is a super talented software engineer, with one exit already under his belt. To quote one of our investors, Len Brody, on his portfolio: “I call them the workaround culture… [they] just work around anything – and you have to.”.

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Artificial Inteligence Cofounder Startup Widget 167

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company). Insight Squared – SMB Business Intelligence (NextView Portfolio Company). Raizlabs – Mobile Development.

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

Think of it this way: If all your software engineers are Stanford computer science majors, they’ve all taken classes from the same professors, completed the same problem sets, and been trained to think in much the same ways. Strong performers come in all stripes and don’t share common backgrounds.

Hiring 40

Hiring Technical Review Portfolio Software Engineering 40

K9 Ventures

MAY 28, 2019

Building a robotic harvesting machines that can pick fruits and vegetables as well as a human is no trivial task and is a feat of systems engineering. Although Traptic can rely on existing robot arms, cameras, and computers, putting the whole system together and making it work smoothly is a complex engineering problem.

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Harvest Cofounder United States California 48

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. 2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity).

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

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.” Are you passionate about creating great user experiences within a product? Both internal and external.

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

Mid- to large-size companies can also benefit from the lean methodology and one way to do so is by actively leveraging crowds of workers: designers , software engineers , testers , writers , customer support people , customers, market researchers , and dozens of other groups via the Internet. This 10-year project invites consumers.

Software Review 89

Software Review Technical Review Social Media Community 89

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Most of our portfolio companies are hiring too, so I won’t single any particular one out: 30 To Follow (Being edited on the fly, so not exactly 30 anymore). Hack/Reduce – Big Data Hackspace. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Ruby specialists.

Boston 72

Boston Community CTO Hire Cofounder 72

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Would you mind sharing them?

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Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital Customer Development 125

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) These companies don’t have search engineers on staff.

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Pennsylvania Search Acquisition Software Engineering 93

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) These companies don’t have search engineers on staff.

Pennsylvania 90

Pennsylvania Search Acquisition Software Engineering 90

VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

Rich – At Google Ventures we provide: recruiting (helping you use the google expertise to get the best engineers for your startup) Architects and software engineers (for code reviews and scalability) and we look at the things that Google has done well, and we help our portfolio companies do well.

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Developer Silicon Valley Software Review Mexico 103

Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area.

Silicon Valley 22

Silicon Valley New York Startup Software Engineering 22

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

with the portfolio to show for it. And then Rafa Pereira, our Director of Software Engineering, really pushed us to embrace OKRs three quarters ago. John Doerr credits it as the main practice that has made Google so successful since near the beginning, as well as many of his Kleiner Perkins’s other portfolio companies.

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Founder Cofounder Software Review San Francisco 51

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios. These elements of my previous corporate career have been crucial in my attempts to reverse engineer an existing industry by simply adding an element of human interaction to a seemingly saturated (online dating) market. Image Credit: Janet Wu.

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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. Immediately.

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Hiring Software Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley 44

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. Letting the system choose the output at the same URL can ban your website from search engines. Portfolios. Tossing Out Pages And Content Blocks.

Mobile 101

Mobile HTML Flash Software Review 101

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga. Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

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. During that time, I did one three month long internship — actually it was closer to 2 months, but it used up three months of my 12 month F-1 OPT window.

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United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. See how it works?

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