YoungUpstarts
JULY 23, 2014
The build-it-yourself era is giving way to prebuilt software that makes it possible to bring advanced capabilities “in-house” almost instantly and get to market quicker. Companies like Salesforce, Magento, Yammer, Freshdesk, Asana and dozens of others are on the rise because they outmatch in-house software on usefulness and cost of ownership.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 19, 2011
The most advanced of these teams, by adhering to the build-measure-learn methodology, has managed to reduce so much waste from their process that they’ve actually become an internal version of a lean startup within the context of our larger organization. For example, software engineering write code.
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View from Seed
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 16, 2011
Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. To learn more, you can check out some of the videos here.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 1, 2019
to be competent, optimizers need a basic understanding of statistics and propensity models. There might be several scenarios where real experiments are not possible: sometimes management may be unwilling to risk short-term revenue losses by assigning sales to random customers. propensity, and so on), and place people into each one.
www.joelonsoftware.com
MARCH 24, 2010
Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.
blog.alinelerner.com
JUNE 21, 2013
When a company gets to be a certain size, hiring managers don’t have the bandwidth to look over every resume and treat every applicant like a unique and beautiful snowflake. As a result, the people doing initial resume filtering are not engineers. At the heart of the matter is scarcity of resources.
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