Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Frank Robinson of SyncDev has been helping companies figure out their minimum viable product and pivots since 1984, long before I even knew what it meant. I want to tell you a story about how a team pivoted and succeeded by synchronizing product and customer development. We shut down production to setup your machine.”

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Summer is always the time when large numbers of new participants in the tech ecosystem arrive and start to get their bearings. There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, product designers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Olin College Foundry Program.

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TechEmpower

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The team’s technical skills are solid, but they’re undermined by poor communication, especially around requirements and expectations. If you're grappling with this issue, identifying the specific cause can be difficult, especially if you don’t have a software background. This is where a technical review can be useful!)

Development Team Review 260

Development Team Review Developer Software Review Technical Review 260

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. This 10-year project invites consumers.

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Software Review Technical Review Social Media Community 89

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 argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Dave, Karen, and their family have been great neighbors over the years and, while we may go weeks sometimes not seeing much of each other, due to being involved in our separate professional and personal pursuits, we always know they have our back, just as we have theirs. (No, not related to the famous Wendy’s founder.)

Sweat Equity 60

Sweat Equity Technical Review Software Review Austin 60

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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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 79

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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Focus on launching. for Harvard Business Revie.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

making technical recruiting suck less. I ran technical recruiting at TrialPay for a year before going off to start my own agency. As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude. Aline Lerner's Blog. Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 98

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

There’s a spectrum from descriptive names which speak directly to a product benefit or attribute, to empty vessel names, where it doesn’t mean anything about the product that we’re talking about.&# A tech Startup OTOH may find themselves having to pivot as new players and innovation come into their market.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 First Hands-On With The Incident Tech GTar. As Smartphones Reach A Global Tipping Point, Why Your Product Isn't As Simple As You. HTC One Review. Also on AOL Tech.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. What are the biggest areas of technical risk? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? Who will do that?

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

There is this delusion that certification in a computer language or vendor technology (Microsoft etc) equates to mastery of the art of programming itself. As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering.

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Offshore Malaysia Developer Stock Options 40

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. We have the machine learning technology to take these disparate, small pieces of molecules, and stitch them together to form an actual anti-COVID drug."

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

And making sales early on when a product is not nearly what it will be one day is especially hard. My team and I have created Happster, the first product created to take employee happiness to new heights through positive psychology. 9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program. Thanks to Lori Cheek, Cheekd ! #8

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Paul Cheek, a serial tech-preneur, educator, and software engineer. This is John Jantsh.

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www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Able to recognize and code dynamic programming solutions, good knowledge of graph algorithms, good knowledge of numerical computation algorithms, able to identify NP problems etc. systems programming Doesnt know what a compiler, linker or interpreter is Basic understanding of compilers, linker and interpreters. Software Engineering.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

Software Testing. Audio and Video Production. These platforms provide employers with an advantage in terms of hiring and managing employees, while ensuring that all payments due are transparent, accurate, and on time. The talent pool includes app developers, UX/UI designers, full-stack developers, and software engineers.

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Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

Some level of screening is vital to most companies, but even low-tech solutions can make a big difference. Simply having administrators black out candidates’ names and addresses before they’re reviewed by hiring managers is one surprisingly effective, easy place to start. THE TWIN PERILS OF BUZZWORD SCREENING.

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Hiring Technical Review Portfolio Software Engineering 40

www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Productivity drops immediately upon starting overtime and continues to drop until, at approximately eight 60-hour weeks, the total work done is the same as what would have been done in eight 40-hour weeks. Ive spent 20 years developing and managing software projects. In 1909, Sidney J. But, somehow, Silicon Valley didnt get the memo.

Software Review 90

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer. Rockstar v.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is okay to go with a cheaper provider when you are just developing the code, but your production needs to run on a rock solid system. Ranging from configuration issues to down time, to unresponsiveness of the technical staff. When your production system is not working right, you need help and you need it fast.

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

She will likely produce a better finished product than I can. Drip outsourcing has become invaluable to my productivity. This ties back into a topic I’ve spoken about previously: when it comes to your product should you build it, buy it or hire it out? Outsource your product architecture?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. ability based on one of many technologies.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Second, the debt note requires a fixed due date (or “maturity date”) for repayment of the total amount borrowed, plus interest. Product: The Funded. The Founder Institute is a global network of startups and mentors that helps entrepreneurs launch meaningful and enduring technology companies. THE FUNDED. FOUNDER INSTITUTE.

Equity 87

Equity San Francisco Technical Review Angel Investor 87

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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