The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

For that, he turned to a previous relationship he had with Apple’s Senior Vice President Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue. Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work. Those apps were then abandoned after he showed them off.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Traveling around the world, I met startup founders, forex traders, marketers, online shop owners, travel bloggers, Instagram influencers and digital business entrepreneurs of all kinds. At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc.

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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.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Five entrepreneurs get free plane tickets to pitch for $100,000 in seed funding from Austin’s top angel investors Every week we meet incredible entrepreneurs from all over the country and all over the world who would move to Austin if they only had some funding. This April, one startup is going to get their chance!

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Given the gold rush going on in Silicon Valley right now, it’s not surprising that some young entrepreneurs think it’s time to drop out and start a company. But the bigger reason for me comes down to experience—rather, the lack thereof—in unstudied entrepreneurs. Not surprising, but still stupid.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

The question is whether it is more effective to spend the money to gain entry-level employment as a Ruby developer where you can learn other software development skills on the job - or to go for an academic degree that may or may not set the student up for a lifetime of success. People need to do this,” Bishay said.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

That makes it even more important for entrepreneurs to come up with viable propositions for their business. Running a startup in New York or Silicon Valley is very expensive, so no wonder that recently, there has been an explosion of new locations starting to see growth in tech startups. 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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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. Would you mind sharing them?

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. zhoucn9999.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

We would love to get your suggestions in the comments section for (1) the type of company that we should follow, and (2) the types of issues that the company might encounter (reminder: the goal is to illustrate common difficulties entrepreneurs face when it comes to understanding their financials).

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 23, 2012

Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley bit.ly/zJpyHd y6fyXN (at 7:56) New vid post >>> Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “The Greatest” bit.ly/xs2La5. 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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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

So, you go out to find a veteran entrepreneur, ask her to be an advisor in your fledgling company … and then what? Entrepreneurs want to compensate their mentors and advisors for the time they dedicate to helping their businesses grow, but they have no idea how much equity to offer. This is where a lot of founders get stuck.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Background Reading: When LLCs Make Sense for Startups Not Building a Unicorn If you have spent almost any time reading about the basics of startup legal issues, you know that Delaware C-corps are the default organizational structure for a “classic” tech startup (software, hardware) planning to raise angel/VC money and scale.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

If you’re thinking about becoming a mentor for startups—either in a formal accelerator program or independently—here are some tips for thinking about how to work with entrepreneurs. And fact of the matter is, no matter how vehemently you support or oppose an entrepreneur’s decision, it’s their decision to make.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. tomnora.

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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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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Babson Entrepreneur Resource Center. Koa Lab – Shared workspace in Harvard Square founded by serial entrepreneur Andy Palmer. Greentown Labs – Entrepreneur community and accelerator focused on Cleantech. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. University Resources: MIT 100K. MIT Start Lab.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Bootstrapping 101.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

You’re in Silicon valley, competing against the best of the best. Don - first time entrepreneurs try to keep their idea secret or get people to sign NDAs. Companies like Yammer are doing social enterprise – taking enterpise software and leveraging the users. Should I move to Silicon Valley? .

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? At best it is a way to inform an entrepreneurs instinct and reduce risk. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. it is likely that ‘active’ and ‘successful’ are not synonymous.). - Creating a master operating checklist for New York entrepreneurs.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

This is an exciting time to be a software entrepreneur and investor. When most people think back on the late 90s, they think the dot com era was exciting because it put tech entrepreneurship on the map in a big way, and lots of entrepreneurs made a ton of money. But, let’s first take a step back in time.

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The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

Under the relatively fresh ‘TNW Profile’ banner, we regularly shine a light on great European entrepreneurs and startup founders, to learn more about their journey and their business, and what drives them personally. TNW: First of all, congrats to making it the list of the Top 100 European women in tech. Does that mean a lot to you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 29, 2020

Radu Spineau is a serial entrepreneur. 29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23) 52:06) On the need for entrepreneurs moving forward. (52:47) 29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23)

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lean Startup Circle - a mailing list of dedicated and helpful entrepreneurs.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

5 Comments 30 Answers Tristan Kromer , I help entrepreneurs find co-founders. I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. " Words of wisdom, my friend.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry. 15, 2009 Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank blogged about being on the receiving end of a hostile outburst from his “abusive boss,&# the [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. The “haves&# possess money, power, influence, or the right friends with those qualities.

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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. This is where I brought in the thinking of how we build businesses here in Silicon Valley.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/1pIoZb3. Can this Silicon Valley strategist teach Fortune 500s to share? How to Tell Your Small-Business Story – crowdspring.co/1u8ovXv. Small Business and Startups: How Do I Thank You? crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1GkbtP7.

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www.fastcompany.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

Fast Company: You say that those who design algorithms are “the preeminent entrepreneurs of this generation.”. Anytime you have so many layers of software--algorithms, really--nobody knows how one new layer will affect the other layers. You title one of the later chapters of your book “Wall Street Versus Silicon Valley” Explain.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. Why have remote, distributed teams suddenly become the smart way to build software companies? Next-generation chat, video calling, and project management software help keep teams in sync. Reason One: Software is Eating the World.

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