Founder Operations Software Engineering Vertical 
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Industry-specific domain experience becomes critical when identifying operational pain points ripe for transformation. This outside work provides a valuable source of revenue able to be used to fund operations. This provides both valuable experience and an understanding of the operational issues within each sector.
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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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.
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?
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.
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.
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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