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. The second is to demonstrate the reach of the product.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

It’s an age-old scenario: You’re building a company, you have a product idea, and you’ve got the framework laid out in your head, but you want some expert advice and guidance on how to take the next steps. Project Manager Dice Holdings Software Engineer, Python, YouTube Google/YouTube Web Developer Yelp Inc.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But here was a $499 product that could let everyone use video.) Our engineers connected a VCR, pushed a button and poured in the video of the Apple 1984 commercial. Even though we won’t make a ton of money, it will be an ambassador for the rest of our product family. And they were right. We knew something our CEO didn’t.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Monica Landers , CEO of StoryFit , Will Mitchell, CEO of ContractSimply.com , Julia Cheek , CEO of Everlywell, and Matthew Wensing , Co-Founder of Risk Pulse, will share how to leverage your company’s data to make smarter decisions and ride the next wave of performance and productivity gains. You don’t need rockstar engineers.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

So, too, is the level of competence required to engineer a product. In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. ” Not only does it decrease, but it may actually go away: Today, if you have a great idea for a software product, you need to either be an engineer or find one.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. Technical founders, or founders who are capable of building their own product, with at least one founder who is capable of leading and building the team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. I have always tried to be a consistent advocate for rapid iterations, fact-based decision making, free software, and values-centric organizations.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. Online Payments. Start a blog.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

In other parts of the country, this is business as usual: Identify a customer need Build a product Sell the product In the valley, the knee jerk reaction is to start with the powerpoint deck and look for the venture capital drug. Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

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. At the same time, I was also working on the product. I always knew that I would someday start my own company. It was only a question of when, where, and how.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

This is a powerful offering for any business operations or IT professional who wants to both visualize and amend/push in production configurations of business applications without having to know each application’s specific language and syntax. Over recent years we have seen big organizations adopting hundreds of business programs.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

It recognizes that forces that create chaos and confusion also upend deeply rooted habits and patterns of behavior — the status quo – that often block potential innovations and more productive ways of living. It had a fancier-sounding title: Product Manager. I wasn’t exactly sure what this software would do yet.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Are you out of your !? *x! No, not really. I was just in marketing.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Software developers are a hot commodity right now, and many of them know it, so theyre on the lookout for really stellar business people to partner with, not some run-of-the-mill, me-too idea having, 10k foot synergizer without any concrete sales prospects, marketing ability, or product experience. Soon you are clearing 7 figures.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The report’s country profile assessment also noted that Israel’s favorable financial environment, the category in which it was placed 14th, and the availability of venture capital, the pillar in which it came in 10th place, also contributed to making the country an innovation powerhouse. Diversified U.S.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Joel Martinez.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Lessons to Learn By the time I joined Ardent I thought I was an experienced marketer, but I’ll never forget my first real lesson in what it meant to understand customers and product/market fit. For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry.

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