Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next. Techstars IoT (NYC).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

.” And if aspiring investment teams are looking to get together the SBIC has come back with a new VC focused program to help non-Silicon Valley communities fund companies beyond their initial angel money. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2010

I’m always on the lookout for what I consider to be genius level software engineering talent. A few weeks into TechStars, I realized that not only was I hanging out with genius level software talent but that Ian and Adam thought about hardware and the combination of hardware and software in unique ways.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

My name is Roberto Inetti, I’m a software engineer and I’ve been coding since I was seven years old. We’re excited to announce that we have a partnership with one of the largest digital agencies in the world along with other amazing partners, so right now we’re trying to scale the company to the next level.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

We launched the CODE2040 Fellows Program, which places top black and Latino/a software engineering students in internships, with five students in summer 2012. HW: You’ve been very deliberate in expanding CODE2040 program size over time – not wanting to move too quickly in the early years. It is our flagship.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s a former Dell exec that worked on their startup team with Ingrid Vandervelt, a Capital Factory mentor, and the co-founder of DivInc, Austin’s pre-accelerator program for diverse founders, which is hosted at Capital Factory. Stephen is a Capital Factory Mentor, serial entrepreneur and former General Partner at Austin Ventures.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Google Fiber at 6:30 pm.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

When looking for a data scientist, the default approach for many companies is to go after software engineers with a strong interest in statistics, data mining and machine learning. Understandably, there’s a preference for people with strong programming skills. Partner with companies like Insight.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. Otherwise you run the risk that in the future somebody claims that the programming work that they did for you represents their IP and not yours. Ask if they’d be willing to pay for a solution like that if it existed. Build prototypes and/or product.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”. Kleiner Perkins Partners With Rock Health To Give Health Tech Startups A Boost. Crunchboard.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Startup School – Professional accelerator program for recent graduates. Ruby specialists.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. This is pretty much how all the value ­added resellers (VAR) programs work. They are not looking to benefit by partnering with your company.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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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. We typically do this by partnering with graduate student teams. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Institute – Practical training program to prepare you to join a startup. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. MIT Start Lab.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Nikolai Barnwell Program Manager Nairobi at 88MPH.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2010

One of our software engineers wrote all the code. My partner Dave Jilk, also a full-stack programmer (and a much better one than me), helped immensely as he completely grokked relational database theory. I’d dress up in a suit and go with the management consultants to the client and participate in meetings.)

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. University Resources.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

As I am going on, I am creating programs and services with various purposes but keeping it under my name at the moment. Lowground Records was the easiest business I have ever named and I knew the name fit the second my business partner said it. After completing the Aerospace Studies program at U.C. 14- Represent two things.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. GeekWire Partners. Contact Us.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 By putting this online, it increases the efficiency with which startups can get funded. Crunchboard.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Austin has it’s own draw and it has “emerged as one of the hottest startup hubs in the country” according to Hugh Forrest , Chief Programming Officer for SXSW (and one of the angel investor backing this competition). Here is a partial list of the Capital Factory Partners who are backing this investment. for the second year in a row.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2013

Kohlhardt said he originally approached services like Jotspot and Socialtext about providing an add-on, but the most receptive partner was collaboration software maker Atlassian , where Gliffy has resided for several years and that provides the bulk of its revenue. Gliffy’s free service allows up to 5 diagrams, with a $4.95

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

Mid- to large-size companies can also benefit from the lean methodology and one way to do so is by actively leveraging crowds of workers: designers , software engineers , testers , writers , customer support people , customers, market researchers , and dozens of other groups via the Internet.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. The wrnchAI engine is a real-time AI platform to digitize human motion and behavior from standard video. We want to make the wrnchAI engine the de facto standard for visual human machine interaction.

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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. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Like programming, business development and accounting system management is a specialty best left to professionals. System programming is very different from application development and is not straightforward. December 27, 2007 at 9:31 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! : Startups!!!

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

For the tech savvy this might include reading an intro book on programming. For the less tech savvy check for a summary and history of the programming language on Wikipedia. Don’t be too specific – you do not need to include the programming language, etc. at this stage. This is true in most, but not all cases.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Their programs teach software programming and IT proficiency to people who have historically been excluded from those fields, and connects their graduates with tech companies around the country. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

#9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program. One of the assignments I experienced was the development of their Entrepreneur Program. This benefited me in that I was motivated to leave an un-rewarding environment where programs that a ton of money was spent on were just cancelled. Image Credit: Anna Renault.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Mark Suster (GRP Partners VC) nails it in this (audio, summary blog post) clip I borrowed from a recent ThisWeekInVentureCapital (#twivc) episode. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in First Round has been an incredible partner in our journey from startup to public company. investors, employees, clients, and partners. At Bazaarvoice, we practiced vulnerability by reading books like Fierce Conversations and having training programs around them. in our Series A.

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