Steve Blank
JULY 11, 2017
They make hardware with a large part of their innovation in embedded software and services. The CFO asked me to stay as one of the engineering directors came in for a meeting. So, this was a meeting of last resort, as the engineering director was making one last appeal to the CFO to keep his team in town. I wish I hadn’t.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Questions I ask Mike Evans: [1:46] Could you give us a high-level overview of the startup of Grubhub to IPO to what you’re doing now? 12:51] Right up to IPO at which point you quit, which I think some people would actually say, you made it now, why are you quitting? He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and bike.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. But many people forget that we have 2 relatively recent IPOs that are substantive companies: TrueCar (Upfront backed) & Cornerstone OnDemand.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 8, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The same might be said of good software. Here we have the beginnings of a theory of design for software.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
This is because these days it’s a trendy word, conjuring up images of youthful exuberance, all-night coding parties, and developing revolutionary apps that transform into mind-boggling IPOs. Although a plumbing company may be new but it can’t be considered a startup because it is not designed to grow fast. Startups play in a bigger field.
Growthink Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
As in where to build that electric car plant, where to put that server farm, where to assemble that team of software engineers. Sequoia Capital recently made headlines with the NASDAQ IPO of Mecox Lane, a Chinese Internet retailer and the seventh IPO by a Chinese company backed by Sequoia in the last 18 months.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. That IPOs and then continues rising. There is much magic going on in this town with both pure tech as well as media tech. These problems obvious exist in any major city. That has a B on the front. I can feel it.
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