crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

behind Silicon Valley and New York), the city of flowers and sunshine boasts one of the largest concentrations of engineering graduates in the country. This was one of the reasons entrepreneur Justin Yoshimura ( founder of the start-up 500friends ) found his way there: Compared to San Francisco in particular, it’s very cheap.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. VC has operated as an “old boys club”, with access to capital often requiring entrance through an elite university engineering department in one of two cities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. I mean, have you seen other people?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

These days, it’s less an issue of creating a technology stack and more about creating the ‘experience layer’ on top, the interface that makes a product relevant and intuitive for people to use while quickly demonstrating its value.”. However, Werdelin is quick to qualify his statement. It’s not that simple,” he says. 3) Facebook. 7) Shopify.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

Just before the holidays I had coffee with Anne, an ex MBA student running a fairly large product group at a search engine company, now out trying to raise money for her own startup. Michael Bloomberg has yet to get his due for engineering the New York entrepreneurial ecosystem. Women have built a network of women mentors?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

CTO, Modcloth – San Francisco, CA (corrected from e-mail version) Remember that girl from back home? Candidates must have a proven track record of scaling consumer applications, growing world-class technology teams, and delivering fast iterative business results.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

We have about 200 designers and engineers there. David and I both understand first hand the terrible technology that is available to nonprofits and NONE of it met our standards. We offer a technology platform that enables nonprofits to fundraise online through campaigns that convert at a higher rate. How do you help clients?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

That’s why in order to reimagine the way humans consume protein, Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck created WildType , an engineered protein company. We sat down to talk about what engineered meat means for the world and how something like this can seem crazy at first, but once you really dig into it, you realize it is actually quite genius.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

(behind Silicon Valley and New York), the city of flowers and sunshine boasts one of the largest concentrations of engineering graduates in the country. This was one of the reasons entrepreneur Justin Yoshimura ( founder of the start-up 500friends ) found his way there: Compared to San Francisco in particular, it’s very cheap.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

I was an engineer on the engineering team. For one, the engineers consider the artists stupid; the artists consider the engineers arrogant. The engineering team would then build that feature, mimicking the UI as close as they could using the current primitives supported by the system. The meeting was tense.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Ukraine is a country rich in talents in the technology industry. The Vernadsky Challenge is a startup competition aimed at young engineers demonstrating their inventions with a total grant prize of 2 million hryvnyas (over 75 thousand dollars). Most of the startups in the tech industry, however, are centered around software.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

Brian Spears , Cofounder and CEO, spoke about his San Francisco-based company. Last July, we met a young pig named Jessie at a farm in Marin, just north of San Francisco. In May, we accepted IndieBio’s offer to join their life sciences accelerator, so we moved to San Francisco, where we’re still based.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. An engineer who can talk intelligently about gender! hope to hear from you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. Labels: search engine marketing 0comments: New comments are not allowed. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. Every time an engineer checks in code, they are batching up a certain amount of work. However, a technological solution cant necessarily resolve all human root causes. Small is beautiful.

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Diego Basch

JANUARY 28, 2012

This view has been debunked decades ago; this analogy was frequently seen as an aspiration for the future when I did my Master in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon in the late nineties. You’ve invented a solar-powered microwave oven, an engine that runs on dead bugs, and a laser-powered weapon to kill mosquitoes.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Most anyone successful in technology has benefited from those who came before them – whether it’s indirect such as opensource code or more specific, like the guidance of a CS professor. Each summer they match high performing software engineering students from these underrepresented groups with Mentor and summer internships.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Recent economic events, technological change, and the rapid diffusion of information about the old models have combined to help us all realize just how important entrepreneurship is - and just how little we really know about it. Rich also organized the first Lean Startup Meetup right here in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form.

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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. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. but rest assured they would be. Bring your questions.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2010

More jobs – this time in San Francisco. Triggit specializes in using a technology called real time bidding where they bid on and run the ads you see in real time as you move across the web. Needless to say the technology sitting inside Triggit is what engineers would call a nice hard problem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Now there was nothing wrong with their analysis: anyone who invents a technology as sophisticated as The Transformers is definitely going to make a lot of money. Turns out, they were incredibly well-credentialed graduate students who had, in fact, developed some interesting new robotics technology. whos on the engineering team?

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

Here they are: 1) I strongly prefer investing in companies located in San Francisco (city proper, not the Bay Area). I live in San Francisco, and I enjoy driving on Bay Area freeways as much as having a root canal done by a drunken dentist who hates my family. That’s a positive return to me. Some lawyers, even.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

So you can imagine how I expected some skepticism when pitching ideas about technology innovation to, say, the U.S. So you can imagine how I expected some skepticism when pitching ideas about technology innovation to, say, the U.S. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a business lawyer working with startups in technology and digital media every day, I’m fortunate to have a front-row seat as entrepreneurs create value out of thin air. Most of the technology industry is notoriously apolitical. What can we do on the public policy front to turn the United States into one giant Silicon Valley?

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was visiting as part of Terrapinn Private Equity World, a leading private equity conference for the Latin American technology community. This is sophisticated technology being built out of Winter Park (a small city near Orlando). that cities such as San Francisco and New York have built.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. Thats possible now, and it means that the historical ratio of QA to engineering is going to have to change (on the other hand, QA is now a lot more interesting of a job). Completely necessary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Acelerar Technologies Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. For now, it won't come in through the store. He currently has a 1999 strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Later, when the company was much larger, we had everyone on our engineering team agree to sit in on one usability test every month. It wasnt a huge time commitment, but it meant that every engineer was getting regular contact with an actual customer, which was invaluable. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form.

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