Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Tech startups were running out of cash prior to launching great products over talent shortage and ever-increasing salaries and rents. At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc. However, the salaries are spent locally, thus revitalizing the local communities.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend. The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. We were going to be guessing.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

The initial class, taught mostly by Bishay and a group of volunteers, produced 21 students, 15 of whom got job offers (with an average starting salary of $79,000) as developers at the end of the program. This is not the first time a Silicon Valley entrepreneur has advocated learning to code as opposed to going to college.

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 23, 2012

Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley bit.ly/zJpyHd Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past week and a couple of blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Talent in Austin’s isn’t just more affordable, it’s easier to retain talent because they are less likely to get poached by the hot startup in Silicon Valley. Indeed.com said that Austin is the best place for a software engineer to get a job where his paycheck goes the farthest compared to the cost of living.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

And I understood engineering since I interacted with them almost daily. And finally, I had a great working relationship with our engineers who designed the chips. I found that having a senior marketer responsible for business strategy surrounded by ex-engineers and domain experts makes one heck of a powerful marketing department.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2014

Since much of the start-up playbook is about learning as much as you can as quickly and cheaply as possible in order to reach some important milestone, many founders, investors, and engineers look at a $200k, two-year program as an inefficient means to an uncertain end. 3) Mentorship is Priceless.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2012

He was just 26 and a rising venture capitalist with a bright future and a big salary. Reverse Engineering. Most standout Silicon Valley careers track the other direction, from successful entrepreneur to venture capitalist (see: Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, etc.). Gautam Gupta had it all. Why did Gupta go the other way?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point. Engineering vs. non-engineering. [00:10:32]

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

Although the media has been full of inspiring stories about start-ups in Silicon Valley, the reality is that the rate at which Americans have been starting companies has been in decline for a long time. For instance, Steve Jobs had no engineering skill, but he had clear design ideas and knew how to build a great brand.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

In an instant, remote work went from a small Silicon Valley trend to a ubiquitous element of daily life. From my perspective, as someone that runs a company specializing in hiring high-quality remote engineers, matching people with opportunities, and managing remote teams, there are three key drivers. C – Communication.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me. I have, thanks to Sam Altman, the President of Y Combinator. How to Get Started.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

During the same time, the US labor force lost over a million private wage and salary workers. The key to WePay’s ability to support platforms is our patent-pending risk engine technology, Veda, that lets us underwrite merchants of any size and shape. Enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5

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Ben's Blog

MAY 18, 2012

Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint, expressed the sentiment well when he said: “ When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.” Many of the MBAs who got the big management positions turned out to be some of the worst managers that Silicon Valley has ever seen. It takes real world practice.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

[contact-form] Can any other region “catch up” to Silicon Valley, or be the next Silicon Valley? These towns are setting their expectations way too high while the real Silicon Valley giggles at the sight. Silicon – Uh, yeah, that word? 150,000 salary right out of college.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

If an engineer, do they pair with another senior engineer so that the more senior engineer can monitor progress and catch and correct any potential errors/mistakes early and often? James began his career as a technical recruiter in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. How are they initially supported by their manager?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

If you spend any time hanging around founder and CEO types and ask them what their biggest problem is, you’ll hear “recruiting developers, engineers and UX/UI designers”. By creating an open bidding process we can also change the dynamic range of salaries for talented engineers.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Central Canada has many of the assets of other entrepreneurial hubs: a flourishing creative community, an active local VC community , strong engineering talent and quality universities, such as University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and Ryerson University. Similarly, 31 per cent of Toronto’s CEOs have lived in Silicon Valley.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 25, 2012

And hiring talent by acquistion is becoming an increasingly popular practice in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Become an Engineer. If your goal is less stress and a good paycheck, Kedrosky recommends going to work as an engineer. But you’ll never convince me that’s a smart thing to do.”. Do the Math.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. That will keep the Silicon Valley wags buzzing for some time to come. One of my engineers once told me my favorite color was plaid. Don’t be the plaid guy.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Everyone at our startup was working on startup starvation salaries, and Bob had taken a large pay cut to join us. The engineers were pulling off miracles on a daily basis, we were all taking fumes for salaries, but our payoff will be when our stock is worth something. No bonuses in a startup.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

Years later this area would become known as Silicon Valley. While I earned a good salary, I got up and went to work every day not because of the pay, but because I loved what I did. But I learned that in Silicon Valley, honest failure is a badge of experience. My third story is about Failure and Redemption.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. And this Silicon Valley bias isn’t limited to any single meeting – it has been a recurring theme in my time as a VC. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Posted on March 29, 2009 by steveblank This is post II of how I came to write “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley “ 1974. Reply Palantir Technologies » The Secret History of Silicon Valley , on April 16, 2009 at 3:03 am Said: [.]

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. In the earliest stages, these skills relate to what any good founding team should bring to the table — an acumen for business strategy and product development coupled with great engineering.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

In contrast, earning an MBA or working as a management consultant is less a final destination and more a way station on the way to a better future, usually with a vigorous salary. (As But what I wasn’t doing was trying to earn a credential or boost my salary. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

In contrast, earning an MBA or working as a management consultant is less a final destination and more a way station on the way to a better future, usually with a vigorous salary. (As But what I wasn’t doing was trying to earn a credential or boost my salary. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

A recent study of graduating job-seekers by job-search engine SimplyHired.com , suggests that this year’s college graduates are not particularly interested in going to work at a startup. When you see the hiring taking place in Silicon Valley, there really is a boom going on here,” says SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani. “So

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

She is an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Cooper Union. Nina has a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union, a master’s in Bioelectrical Engineering from MIT, a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, and an MBA from Columbia University. We’ll pay him before we pay ourselves.”

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 7, 2018

The predominant narrative among Silicon Valley start-ups has been: don’t open a second office until you have reached 100+ employees. However, the pressure of sky-high housing costs, salaries and competition for suitable candidates is causing start-ups and investors to rethink their approach to distributed teams.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. While Asia has long been known for its cheap engineering resources and the off-shoring tech phenomenon that took place over a decade ago, the cost gap has narrowed — and even more significantly, so has the quality gap. Cast a wide net.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It Instead, Silicon Beach, a roughly 3-mile stretch of sand from Venice to Santa Monica , is home to Viddy and a host of other young tech companies with an entertainment, celebrity or mobile edge. Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

3) You don’t have to be in Silicon Valley to start a successful startup [or do you?]. Silicon Valley definitely has its advantages – lots of dollars looking for startups, large companies, a startup ecosystem etc. Martin Varsavsky addressed this in depth at his talk in the Inspire conference two weeks ago.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In that case, does it make sense to just offer a base salary and a good bonus? She is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and strategy consultant who writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is the author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. Web Method for a Remote Server.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S. I was stunned.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Recruiters often charge 15% or more of base salary for each successful placement. Joel at Fog Creek has taken great pains to build a strong engineering culture, and it shows. There’s a good reason Silicon Valley startups make sure you know that they provide a nice Apple rig, Aeron chairs, and 27 inch monitors.

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