Founder, Incubator and Software Engineering

Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Startup studios continue to grow in popularity as incubators for new businesses. Forming a digital agency that performs work for clients in addition to incubating startups provides a host of advantages compared to a singularly-focused startup studio. These can then be repeated and improved on with each successive startup.

Incubator

Incubator Startup Software Developers Software Development

Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

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. The next customer segment we tried was startup founders. Technology in search of a market.

Lean

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model

Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. Accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces have proliferated in Cambridge and Boston.

Boston

Boston Cofounder Seed Capital Software Engineering

May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine.

Kenya

Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder

Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

From what we know, founder Bill Nguyen has been away from the office for three months, after a period of intense strain between him and the board. Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work. Some of that has come out in stories so far.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Media Startup

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. You can also read more about Bizosys on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model.

India

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur

Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

This is where a lot of founders get stuck. Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements.

Equity

Equity San Francisco Startup Silicon Valley

How To Get Past Buzzwords And Make Better Hires

Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

Think of it this way: If all your software engineers are Stanford computer science majors, they’ve all taken classes from the same professors, completed the same problem sets, and been trained to think in much the same ways. Strong performers come in all stripes and don’t share common backgrounds.

Hiring

Hiring Technical Review Portfolio Software Engineering

How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. Motivation to work for sweat equity is something else that founders tend to take for granted. These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees.

Part-Time VPE

Part-Time VPE Sweat Equity DC Washington

Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Alpha Lee : Right.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Cofounder Design

Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. And in fact, my co-founder is one of those, right?

Fresno

Fresno Community Technology California

NEXT by Startup Weekend in Boulder

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2013

During my senior year, I took “Startup Essentials for Software Engineering” (taught by Zach Nies of Rally Software) and I can confidently say it was the best class I ever took at CU. Accelerators and incubators can offer this, but they require you to have your business already in motion and are difficult to get into.

Startup

Startup Vesting Cofounder Lean

Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups.

Angel Investor

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media

20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name. StartupDevKit is a new type of online startup incubator and accelerator but also helps startup-related companies, as well. Thanks to Jessica L. We began by writing out a lot of words that we liked. 12- Two reasons.

Naming

Naming Software Review Entrepreneur Atlanta

Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. Eugene Sepulveda (@EugeneAustin) | Twitter Ingrid Vandervelt CEO & Founder EBW2020 Ingrid Vanderveldt is the Chairman and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020).

Technical Cofounder

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO

Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Today, TheFunded.com and the Founder Institute is announcing in conjunction with law firm Wilson Sonsini, Convertible Equity, a startup-friendly seed-financing vehicle intended to replace Convertible Debt notes. FOUNDER INSTITUTE. Company: Founder Institute. Since 2009 the Founder Institute has helped. Crunchbase.