Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. The next customer segment we tried was startup founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. The focus of our first segment with Eric was, “What is the Lean Startup” and how did it start? Origins of the Lean Startup.

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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. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 7, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. Wed, May 10: Innovating in Tech and Quantum Computing (FREE) Join our 100% free speaker series and network with other individuals interested in FinTech, entrepreneurship, technology and startups.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Each year LinkedIn measures the most in-demand Silicon Valley startups , a window into the employers that engineers think can do more than help them pay their mortgage. Who’s Hot With The Engineering Crowd? How does LinkedIn measure the most in-demand startups? But does the expectation match up with reality?

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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. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2018

. * Whiteboard interviews are a great way to gauge how someone will work with other engineers on the team. So, see the interviewer as your partner when trying to solve the problem. Building great software is all about teamwork, and a defensive attitude when your ideas are challenged communicates that you won’t be a good team member.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. How To Think About The Future.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies. In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. So, today we’d like to highlight a few main points to consider when building your startup team. Startup’s can be stressful and there may be many times when people want to quit.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? A tech Startup OTOH may find themselves having to pivot as new players and innovation come into their market. And Good luck!

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Startup Resources. Posts Comments Startups. STARTUP SPOTLIGHT. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Support the ATX Startup Community by voting for this selection of panels featuring Austinites. Of the thousands of submissions, our team has poured through and highlighted a diverse grouping of Austin startup focused panels that we think deserve to be at SXSW 2019! By: Tom Hadfiled, CEO @ M.io If you’re unfamiliar with PanelPicker?—?it

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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. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders.

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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. The next step would be to secure funding.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

If a technology makes sense on the roadmap, make sure it can also deliver quality software that people will want to use today. Engineer the experience so you can evolve the product. The goal of this sponsorship was to build a network of partners that can help Walmart innovate and deliver tangible results.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

This April, one startup is going to get their chance! Capital Factory has moved more than a dozen startups to Austin in one way or another over the past few years — starting with the first company we ever invested in —  SpareFoot. Top entrepreneurial city  — The Kauffman Foundation ranked Austin the number 1 startup metro in the U.S.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. For starters, you have to get inside the head of a programmer who might want to work for your startup.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2013

What makes Gliffy’s story especially interesting is that Microsoft invited the company to participate – even though Gliffy competes with Microsoft’s own Visio software. ‘We were thinking, is there any other software package that is larger, worldwide? monthly/$49.50 monthly/$99.50 pro tier is also available.

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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. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Online Resources and Newsletters: Bostinno : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. HBS Startup Tribe.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

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. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Bostinnovation : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. HBS Startup Tribe. MassChallenge - Startup competition and accelerator.

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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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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: chief technical officer chief technology officer cto interim cto job description start-up startup cto web cto Weve been swapping some thoughts with Daniel Kehoe , a consulting CTO acquaintance of ours from across the pond. Ensure staff, partners, customers, and board understand the business technological vision.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I received a great question via LinkedIn: I'm the founding engineer and working hard to launch my startup. I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners? Accounting?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

We write often about small businesses and startups and lean approaches to marketing and other business functions. You must answer the question for yourself: do the benefits of the crowd outweigh the benefits of a more traditional outsourcing, partnering, or in-house approach?

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. I have read studies that show that one of the factors that correlates highly for success in a startup is if the team has worked together and made money together in a previous startup.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Sales Account Manager for a leading NYC based StartUp. With a wealth of financial knowledge, I took a risk and became the CFO of a clean tech startup and eventually moved to San Francisco where my entire high end wardrobe became obsolete. You’re abandoned by partners you once relied upon. Thanks to Steve Benson, Badger Maps ! #4

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Football vs. Track One more example and then I’ll get back to talking about software and entrepreneurship. Now Back to Software Let’s translate this to being a software developer / entrepreneur. Take the test and figure out your strengths.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Having founded active campaign as a means to fund his education, Jason pursued a degree in fine arts until shifting his focus entirely to growing the company and his self-taught software engineer and technologist. Partner feedback is so important.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

More recently, Eric Ries and Dave McClure added fuel to the fire (See Eric Ries’ blog post: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet) and helped kick off a campaign on @ 2Gov. In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug.

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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. Sales are the bloodstream for most businesses, and tech startups are no exception. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Prior to the JAIC General Shanahan ran Project Maven, an unintentional dry-run for how the DOD and commercial companies could partner (or not) to build AI-enabled apps. Maven partnered with Google to build a computer vision tool for imagery analysts to automatically detect objects/targets. We started with a cross-functional team.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. —– Indie.vc

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