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. Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Second, I suggest using some of the search engines for finding online communities: Community-Finder. Third, look on an internet search engine for all combinations of words from each of the two columns on the right below, e.g., “New York software engineers group”. . Software engineers”. Community Findr.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

For instance, an unscreened software contractor might go Missing in Action or write unusable code. 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).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

Hiring = Sales. A good recruitment process has many parallels with a sales funnel. As with sales, these core reasons need to be compelling to candidates, while being as unique to you (competitive differentiation) as possible. As an example, the reasons we provide to prospective engineers are 1.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2018

In light of this, software developers are beginning to cater to the digital transformation needs of SMBs. Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business. SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It starts with the hiring process.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It starts with the hiring process.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2016

It was adopted in the software development industry. It follows a linear, sequential process and is the most common version of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for IT and software engineering projects. Waterfall defines all software requirements upfront. It enforces discipline.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

While there are some services that are commonly outsourced, such as customer support and software engineering, there are actually hundreds of other tasks that can be effectively done by outsourcers, thereby helping to scale your business. Here are 5 outsourcing services that can have a huge impact on helping your business grow: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. The world’s best brains are on sale.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

500-rated, top-ranked conversation analytics software serving over 30,000 businesses around the world. They found in 2011 in their basement, and together have grown it into an Inc 500 rated top ranked conversion analytics software serving over 30,000 businesses around the world. Lori does not. So Lori has a, a business background.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. The focus of our first segment with Eric was, “What is the Lean Startup” and how did it start? If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Speaking of sales and business development, during the first few years, it was hard to convince businesses to create remote jobs. At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. The six-week immersive program offers four tracks: software development, marketing, sales and business development, and product design. Startups are businesses.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? I’ve been able to study the Southern Cal software dev scene as an insider for over 2 years now. I’ve been able to study the Southern Cal software dev scene as an insider for over 2 years now. Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. are built on Drupal.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Learn more about new business approaches and management software. Use scheduling software for social media and be consistent. More sales is an indicator of scaling as well. Thomas is a software engineer at an app development agency and a fan of everything IT, mobile and tech-related. Manage your growth.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. The resources required to start a company vary significantly , depending on the type of company and growth rate anticipated by the entrepreneur.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2013

Mike Scanlin runs Born To Sell , a website dedicated to helping investors generate more monthly income from stocks they own, offering a ‘covered call screener’ Previously Mike was a venture capitalist, investment banker and software engineer. Do you have a great story about how you did it?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. TechStars was a great method.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 20, 2019

I was on a panel with Pascal Gauthier, CEO of hardware wallet Ledger, who noted that their sales doubled the day of the Binance hack. ” On the crypto side, Binance resumed trading services after its $40M hack. ” On the crypto side, Binance resumed trading services after its $40M hack.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Discuss.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Michael Eidsaune.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives.”. Software Engineer. ” Software Engineers. Data Analyst.

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2017

Last week I had the honor of speaking at the “Engineers turned Entrepreneurs” panel at the 3 Day Startup Global Roundup. Having graduated as an Electrical Engineer and worked as a Software Engineer at IBM, I felt I perfectly fit the bill. Note that got left by a customer.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Michael Eidsaune.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

Today in the tech industry, we’re entering an era of Levittown software, and the change is important for all businesses. The companies that ‘rent’ these products on a SaaS basis enjoy the highest standard in software without the costs, risks and tech quandaries of in-house development. The Death of In-House Payment Gateways.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Engineering/QA. you should be able to find many options for an ad sales network.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Parades are held, speeches are given, and workers across the country take an extra day’s rest from their labors to picnic, play with their kids, and (often) shop the sales that businesses love to offer on the last official day of summer. John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money. Order Here.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2019

There might be several scenarios where real experiments are not possible: sometimes management may be unwilling to risk short-term revenue losses by assigning sales to random customers. a sales team earning commission-based bonuses may rebel against the randomization of leads.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering. Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.

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