Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Balance your focus on engineering elegance. At some point, this becomes compulsive engineering, and the tradeoffs in time to market, cost, and user friendliness move the product out of the intended market. They are your early opinion leaders, so they are required to build the image that the rest will follow.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.”

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VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice. But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search. Much of it today belongs to Algolia.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer? office, right in the heart of MIT.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking. Use the tips outlined above during the first three months to get in the game, and count on much more time and money if you intend to stand above the rest. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In the real world, downloading a search engine is a more realistic option to finding data. The Internet isn’t organized, but you can instantly find what you are looking for using an online search engine. A search engine can instantly search terabytes of your documents, emails, online data, etc. One New Year’s Resolution… done!

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2022

If you want your website to be seen by more people, you need to rank higher on search engines. In this post, we will discuss the most important and actionable SEO tips that you can follow to increase your rankings on search engines. When people look for something on a search engine, they have a specific intent. Build Backlinks.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. It’s hard to find good engineering talent right now, and if you’ve found somebody who knows what they’re doing they probably know others.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

“It kinda sucks to be engineer #1.”. That’s what a couple of my friends – engineers at Google and Bloomberg who have been following the rise of startup culture with intrigue – told me recently. They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Engineer #1?

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2024

Businesses and devs can easily incorporate tokenized US stocks and ETFs into their offerings with Dinari’s REST API or smart contracts. with participation from Figma Ventures and founders of leading engineering-driven companies. Dinari launched its B2B API and managed account services. Here’s their announcement on X.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

The idea is to build excellence in one area, and get the rest from the ecosystem. Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push. It’s also a good defensive move, to preempt competition, which is bound to come world-wide.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Thanks to his custom blurb, instead of closing his browser and feeling inadequate for the rest of the day, Mark completes his bio and becomes a happy customer. To get to what’s right for you, you need a tech partner with a deep understanding of your business needs, software development experience, data engineering skills and AI expertise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2020

Developers need to work with engineers, sales and marketing staff, customer support staff, and even CEOs and other executives so they need to understand far more than how to code a website. If you’re thinking of getting into web development, prepare yourself to spend the rest of your career learning and growing. Project management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Balance your focus on engineering elegance. At some point, this becomes compulsive engineering, and the tradeoffs in time to market, cost, and user friendliness move the product out of the intended market. They are your early opinion leaders, so they are required to build the image that the rest will follow.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Search engine optimizers refer to the business strategy of boosting your presence and content through specific keywords that will directly link to your website, hence generating more leads and possibly more audience and more customers in the long run. Do you ever wonder how the search engine comes out with the results to give you?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. This is sometimes business-model dependent, e.g.: Product/Design/Engineering headcount – need to bring on a full-time PM and/or designer with X product milestones; rough estimates of engineering headcount by stage. Now it’s time to discuss the “where”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. Product/Market Fit Versus The Business Model Canvas. Things That Needed Constant Reminders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking. Use the tips outlined above during the first three months to get in the game, and count on much more time and money if you intend to stand above the rest. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2017

SEO is a game of keyword- and research-driven efforts, wrapped around a technical understanding of how search engines work and what factors they use in order to calculate a specific website’s value. It’s like chess. If you’re new to SEO, this might seem overwhelming. SEO Ultimate is the ultimate detail checker. Dibz is all about saving time.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

It should also be optimized for search engines so that potential customers can easily find it. Rest assured that with a little bit of effort, you will be able to reach your target audience and achieve your desired results. Another important aspect of promoting your startup is developing a strong online presence. All the best!

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Solve the rest later. More often than not, whatever it is you are building will require a complementary skill set, whether that’s business/finance, sales/marketing, or design/engineering. It took Alex a long time to find an engineer to partner with without the network gained from working at a startup first.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When you neglect your website, you not only run the risk of driving away potential customers who might think your business is no longer open or poorly operated, but you also hurt your SEO , which means you’ll drive less traffic from search engines over time. Make sure your website is mobile-friendly. Handle any redirect issues.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Junior engineers cannot deliver a high-quality product. Even if you truly believe they can, your team needs to include at least one experienced team leader to guide the rest of the engineers through software development specifics. In average, the hourly rate for software engineering services reaches $47 per hour.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Balance your focus on engineering elegance. At some point, this becomes compulsive engineering, and the tradeoffs in time to market, cost, and user friendliness move the product out of the intended market. They are your early opinion leaders, so they are required to build the image that the rest will follow.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Then as your business grows, you’ve already established a culture of good engineering practices, you already have the senior staff up to speed, and you’ll find it easy to attract more talent. NVV: Startups are all about tradeoffs, and engineering is a great example. And your code already does what it’s supposed to do!

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Writing a good product description so that a search engine can find it is a subset of a larger discipline called search engine optimization, or SEO. SEO is a set of practices that help search engines classify your site so your audience can find your website. That helps search engines identify the product properly.

Product 101

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy. Are We Missing A Founder?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Intellectual Property 219

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. All of this is part of the “market-engineering” that must be performed alongside product-engineering. These people can become toxic to the rest of the team. Here’s to your success!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. As a hardware engineer, you already know the value, importance, and layout of a spec to keep you focused, but you may not be so familiar with the key elements of a business plan, and the way to use it to support and add credibility to your hardware solution.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2019

Among the many digital marketing strategies that you can try using are Search Engine, Optimization (SEO), Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Pay Per Click (PPC), Affiliate Marketing, Native Advertising, Marketing Automation, Email Marketing, Online PR, and Inbound Marketing. With SEO, you can create and increase brand awareness.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2020

Therefore, it is important to have aesthetics and updates right in place to rank well on search engines and to offer customers with the best experience. It positions it well in search engine too. An enjoyable user experience can lead to perpetual sales as it is the first step that online shoppers take to climb the rest.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. All of this is part of the “market-engineering” that must be performed alongside product-engineering. These people can become toxic to the rest of the team. Here’s to your success!

Framework 113

Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 15, 2014

And, if you grant my indulgent inclusion in that pantheon, I did the same as WP Engine took off, with a noticeable decrease in early 2012 and relatively little in the past twelve months. Because m y daily experiences are unsharable.

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