YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2014

It recently occurred to me that I could make one simply change in my daily routine that would have a significant impact on the productivity of both me and my team. Case in point is an email exchange I had last Tuesday with Jay Smith, one of our software engineers. The task I’m talking about had half-a-dozen sub-items.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. The second is to demonstrate the reach of the product.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

They make hardware with a large part of their innovation in embedded software and services. The CFO asked me to stay as one of the engineering directors came in for a meeting. So, this was a meeting of last resort, as the engineering director was making one last appeal to the CFO to keep his team in town. I wish I hadn’t.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In fact, all major computer tech companies are involved in automotive software engineering. . A few hurdles to cross before these vehicles go into production are: Operating conditions. Companies working in automotive software engineering are trying to answer the many questions around self-driving cars. Regulations.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In order to balance the various responsibilities at home, at work, and personally, productivity is becoming increasingly essential. How can we boost our productivity, especially as it relates to time spent on computers? This study published by Fujitsu Siemens Computers discovered three monitors increased productivity up to 35.5%.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For example, Lean Startup offers many benefits to emerging organizations, especially considering its focus on crafting a minimum viable product (MVP). If necessary, it also helps determine the validity of a potential target market before too much money gets spent on promoting a substandard product.

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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. A data science and AI consulting company should be looked at primarily when you need to improve the products which have the appropriate functions around machine learning.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Why Shipping Is Important When Building Shipping defines software engineering in a magical way that is challenging to understand. The appeal is that scaling a product to millions of users simply requires a focused team. Shipping means a product worth using. So what exactly does shipping mean?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

Alternatively, according to Typelane organizations with a standardized onboarding process experience 62% greater new hire productivity. Whether it’s an inactive email address, a project management software glitch, or a cracked computer screen, etc., these are hiccups that stall productivity. Define Onboarding Length.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Without producing physical goods, every entrepreneur now can succeed in selling other manufacturers’ products online. Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? One of the simplest ways to construct a product like Etsy is to use WordPress Etsy themes. Junior engineers cannot deliver a high-quality product.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

So, too, is the level of competence required to engineer a product. In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. Software was expensive. Engineers, however, were relatively cheap. Tomorrow, that billion-dollar startup acquisition might not need an engineer at all. No Problem!

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SVPG

APRIL 12, 2016

Note 2: I am highlighting here the product role, which is a subset of the “women in tech” topic. I would also love to see more women in engineering and design roles, but I am especially focused on the product role because it’s such a strong path to CEO and GM roles.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2019

by Adam Zimman, VP of Product and Platform of LaunchDarkly. Tools that will help you with this include product delivery and tracking tools. #2. Celebration (even for small wins) provides motivation to continue practicing the act of shipping, and results in more stable services and products. #5. Plan the release. (Is

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. Hiring for tech jobs in Vancouver is all done online.

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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.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2013

For years we’ve worked in small, distributed engineering teams and we’ve always struggled to find the right tool for communication. We primarily use chat because software engineering is very text-oriented. We tried many different products: free, paid, basic, complex. None worked well for us.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2019

Throughout the company’s history, both Apple’s hiring managers and their software engineers have been adamant that only the best professionals would be worthy to join this company. This self-policing effectively became the company’s culture and allowed their teams to create many great products. Its product?

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In other words, the most compelling reasons for NOT relying on remote engineering talent to build software no longer apply. We test for software engineering fundamentals, and we use technology-specific tests. What to Look for when Vetting Remote Engineers. In terms of technical expertise. You must figure this out.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 15, 2017

Source: Data Scientists Are Analysts are Also Software Engineers , William Whipple Neely. It turns out that a data scientist is both analyst and software engineer (and everything in between) as Neely’s presentation was aptly titled “Data Scientists Are Analysts Are Also Software Engineers.”

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

For example, Artem is an expert in software engineering, product development and all things tech. It’s important for co-founders to each have their own personal strengths in a business so they can divide the responsibilities and succeed in their respective roles.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. One product at a time wasn’t going to change the trajectory of the DOD. Nand Mulchandani.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Unfortunately, positioning our product as an "IM add-on" was a complete mistake.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Frank Robinson of SyncDev has been helping companies figure out their minimum viable product and pivots since 1984, long before I even knew what it meant. I want to tell you a story about how a team pivoted and succeeded by synchronizing product and customer development. We shut down production to setup your machine.”

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. Third party products are used appropriately. We are producing the right functionality, but is the code that's being produced the right product? Plan for past the initial MVP.

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David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. Engineers, product managers, and platform managers building tech solutions for private market investing. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi! who use tech solutions in their day-to-day process.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. We heard consistently that the product looked good and solved a problem, but it was not an important problem.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

As an example, the reasons we provide to prospective engineers are 1. For example, if you run a tech startup , you will know how hard it is to find good software engineers. Not sales, product development, or fundraising. Your internal team creates your external results, such as new products and increased revenues.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

by Melissa Lincoln, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Leadspace. As any engineering VP based in San Francisco knows, it’s a competitive market for technical talent. The nation of Israel, on the other hand, provides an ideal pillar of technical expertise to support a growing B2B software company.

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

Even in a sustained downturn, tech is likely to be a driving force of economic productivity improvements rather than the proximate cause of recession (as in 2001). At a company level, global supply chains made it possible to source and build products faster and cheaper with a “just in time” model.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

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. Delivery of code/product that clearly has not been tested. How strong is product management? Some of the top symptoms are: Frequently missed deadlines. Is there a lot of rework?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

Most people would think that R&D tax credits were only applicable to those who create the best new products and those that wear laboratory coats, this is grossly wrong though. R&D activities can range from developing and improving processes, products, and services to developing technology, programs, and software.

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readwrite.com

APRIL 25, 2013

And you thought being a software engineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. It turns out, at least according to a survey conducted by software delivery service Electric Cloud , that developers spend almost 20% of their time.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

By leveraging remote workforce management software, you can digitize and streamline various processes to monitor and improve your employees’ productivity. Consider hiring or working with experts such as people with an online masters software engineering to create an immersive and seamless virtual experience.

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