Portfolio, Sales and Software Engineering

Why Startups Must Liberate From Hiring Platforms

YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

The work history, clients, portfolio and reviews are gone, just like that? Rick has over 15 years of experience in software engineering, is the author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “, and has engineered a library of popular software algorithms (HackFastAlgos). Too big to fail.

Hiring

Hiring Software Review Startup API

Spotlight on Engineering Team Building: Lessons learned from Algolia

Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company.

Part-Time VPE

Part-Time VPE Engineer Retention API

Blockchain Week Bull Run

thebarefootvc

MAY 20, 2019

I was on a panel with Pascal Gauthier, CEO of hardware wallet Ledger, who noted that their sales doubled the day of the Binance hack. While Microsoft continues to work with the ethereum blockchain for other projects, I found it telling that they chose to use the more proven bitcoin blockchain for such a key implementation.

Architecture

Architecture Software Engineering Security Portfolio

Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., Editor’s Note: NextView recently kicked off a Boston-based workshop series on technical interviewing with Google. office, right in the heart of MIT.

Technical Review

Technical Review Engineer Software Review Founder

Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Would you mind sharing them?

Silicon Valley

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. 1 – Medical Device Sales. As a sales representative I noticed that the promotional efforts for Plastic Surgeons were held by a few large firms that overcharged. Sales Account Manager.

Entrepreneur

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Is #NewYork the Next Startup Land of Oz?

Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. These people abound in New York.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley New York Startup Software Engineering

Hire a Recruiter.Now

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. Immediately. 2) Hiring Inexperience.

Hiring

Hiring Software Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley

So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” I learned that software engineers?—?or or developers?—?are stars to 4.6

Management

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Top Platforms for Freelancing Newbies

Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Sales and Marketing. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Behance is Adobe’s portfolio website so it’s easy to miss this opportunity.

Technical Review

Technical Review Software Review Search Portfolio

Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. Details here.

Equity

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado

How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO

firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company. I was their first full-time engineering hire and I helped build out the team and set the agenda for product development. I was wrong.

CTO Hire

CTO Hire Engineer Software Review Part-Time VPE

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Just hired Yahoo’s VP Media Sales. Most of our portfolio companies are hiring too, so I won’t single any particular one out: 30 To Follow (Being edited on the fly, so not exactly 30 anymore). Hack/Reduce – Big Data Hackspace. Ruby specialists.

Boston

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

local sales, disasters, city or regional politics, concerts). When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Or maybe this article sets the ground for the sales pitch of such system.

Mobile

Mobile HTML Flash Software Review

Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga. Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies.

Angel Investor

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Selling JAIC Like Enterprise Sales. I organized my missions teams like an enterprise sales team. I want you to leave your job, where you’re getting free meals, where you’re living and working around a bunch of other software engineers. It’s working on a portfolio of 32 products in 6 verticals across the DOD.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO

How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Sales is more difficult and more important that you think, if you build it they wont just come.