Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And the JAIC can’t run them because we’re not an operational software organization.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

by Rick Mac Gillis , founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “ Startups, more than any other type of business, are sensitive to change. The easiest way to do this is to open and operate multiple accounts on multiple service providers. Because startups are fragile and fledgling.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 2, 2013

Another thing they have in common: I find most high-tech startup founders are software engineers enamored with the idea of waking late, sidling up to a coffeeshop table, pecking away at an IDE, getting into the zone for hours at a stretch, and doing what they love – coding something of their own invention.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

Mawuna Koutonin is the founder of London-based GoodBuzz , and his story is the stuff of dreams. The GoodBuzz team currently comprises five people – three software engineers, one marketing manager and an operations officer - and works closely with an advisory board of industry specialists. The African Boy Who Could.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

As cloud computing and applications have become more prevalent in every size and type of company, configuring these applications remains a pain point that business operations and IT departments know all too well. The answer is the cloud. Enter Salto. Salesforce + Workday) and managing very complex tools such as CPQ.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 8, 2018

I started my career as a software engineer on Wall Street. I immediately set out to find a job at a restaurant to better understand how it operates. I immediately set out to find a job at a restaurant to better understand how it operates. It didn’t take long to realize I had made a mistake.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

Still there are some common signals / symptoms that I hear about from Founders/CxOs in companies that are the reason they are calling me. Founder Developer Gap and A, B, C Players By the way, this question is another example of issues around the Founder Developer Gap. The last 10% takes the other half. You need to dive in.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Our CTO, Ian Ha, has worked as a senior software engineer at various startups in the gaming, interactive media, financial services and gig-economy spaces. Our Chief Scientist, William Hua, has more than a decade of experience as a software engineer in gaming and mobile app development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. They are now operating in nine States. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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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. You can see preliminary results of this value creation study below. - Encouraging non-US companies to set up operations in the US.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

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. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Johnni Kjelsgaard Founder and CEO at GrowthAfrica.

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TechEmpower

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The Founder-Developer Gap and A, B, C Players The challenges that business leaders face when assessing development teams are a good example of the Founder-Developer Gap. It’s a good question.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

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

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.” ” Kraus was talking about the economics of startups—the cheapness of servers, networks, and other raw ingredients of computing. You name it.”

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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. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Business software isn’t glamorous but it’s nonetheless important to help sales, operations, purchasing and fulfilment teams to process sales orders and ship them out on time. A good part of my software has built-in smarts. It’s about setting up my software development centre from scratch in Vietnam.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

JD Weinstein , head of Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem in Austin; Karen Kilroy, entrepreneur and CEO of Kilroy Blockchain; Sabrina Wojtewicz, co-founder of Bunker Labs; and Sara Chapman, Director of Entrepreneurship Strategy & Partnerships at Dell will discuss how both startups and corporations can work together and find the right fit.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders. Next-generation chat, video calling, and project management software help keep teams in sync. And there’s another reason, also technology-driven, why boundaryless teams are possible now — the democratization of education for software engineers.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

One of the company’s four employees, its software engineer, is not an American citizen. Howard Marks, the co-founder of game giant Activision, and the current co-chair at the Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine , was born in Santa Monica to European parents, grew up in France and came back to the states for college. .

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Boston Hardware Startup Meetup – Meetup organized by the founders of BOLT.

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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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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives.”. This focus usually reflects the philosophy of the founders and early team members, and therefore it’s not usually something you can change. Software Engineer.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The seeds planted by those who came in the 90′s have begun to blossom 15 years later literally into seed capital, blossoming new entrepreneurs and an ecosystem of experienced operators that powered LA 1.0 But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. ”).

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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? Customer Development is about testing the founder’s hypothesis about what constitutes product/market fit with the minimum feature set.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 29, 2020

29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23) He was an immigrant from Romania, a software engineer, came to the Bay Area, did Y Combinator, started a company, sold it, made connections, and became part of this ecosystem. 27:06) Helpwithcovid's DNA. (27:55)

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name. The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. It’s an app that makes training easy while building a better operations manual for your company. Thanks to Jessica L.

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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. “Oh Would you mind sharing them?

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban. And just a few weeks ago, the SEC gave the investment platform the greenlight under its regulations.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Execution is what matters, and in most web startups that falls on the technical founder. Sorry for the rant, but in all seriousness, Ive seen too many good non-technical founders delay building a product for months because theyre too stingy with equity. A single tech founder needs to learn all the biz stuff.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Paul Cheek, a serial tech-preneur, educator, and software engineer. My guest today is Paul Cheek.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. GreenPal’s vision is to become the operating system and platform that makes the lawn care industry run smoothly.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. And, of course, Adobe said, “Oh, by the way, you don’t mind if the software engineer comes with us, do you?” Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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