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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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Earthquakes and talent scarcity in tech hubs like San Francisco, London, New York, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Paris and so on could disrupt the business of many tech companies. Tech startups were running out of cash prior to launching great products over talent shortage and ever-increasing salaries and rents. and business transformation.

Technical Review 132

Technical Review Croatia San Francisco Software Review 132

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. It’s also surprisingly difficult for students to get plugged-in to everything that is happening in the local tech ecosystem. Greenhorn Connect: Excellent collection of BOS tech events and resources.

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

The inspection- system GM decided to use it for his fourth-generation system, an 18-month program. The core team — a cross-functional team who could make all the business and technical decisions within a set envelop ? We followed that with an hour-long design review, including disclosure of product limitations. Are you nuts ?”

San Jose 259

San Jose Technical Review Customer Development Software Review 259

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

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.

Management 85

Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

It’s also surprisingly difficult for students to get plugged-in to everything that is happening in the local tech ecosystem. Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Olin College Foundry Program. Applications due Nov 20 th !

Boston 56

Boston Technical Review Community CTO Hire 56

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. The following are examples of such problems, and only the last requires any programming knowledge. Keep candidates engaged.

Engineer 138

Engineer Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 138

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.

Software Review 89

Software Review Technical Review Social Media Community 89

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.

Software Developers 79

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 79

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

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 same might be said of good software. Here we have the beginnings of a theory of design for software.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

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. Sam Gichuru is a lynchpin in Nairobi’s startup community due to his leadership of nailab, a major incubator and accelerator.

Kenya 45

Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

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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Software Review Stock Options Salary Technical Review 48

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

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. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

Agile 76

Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 76

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

They are also limiting in a fast-moving industry like tech, where what you do now might not be what you’ll be doing in a few years. “A 1) Be sure to check your proposed business name in various search engines - to check on possible competition - who comes up 1st when you type in the name, are they in the same industry etc.

Naming 94

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. HTC One Review. Also on AOL Tech. More on Engadget , TUAW , Joystiq , HuffPost Tech. Google Crashes Facebook Home's Easy.

SEC 61

SEC Accredited Investor San Diego New York City 61

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What are the biggest areas of technical risk? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? How can we address this risk?

CTO Hire 231

CTO Hire Technical Review Developer Software Review 231

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.

Offshore 40

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."

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Cofounder Design 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

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. 9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program. One of the assignments I experienced was the development of their Entrepreneur Program.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Investment Bankers PR Social Media 48

Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

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. This is due to the fact that there are so many jobs featured there at any given time, no matter what your skill set is.

Technical Review 89

Technical Review Software Review Search Portfolio 89

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.

Software Review 108

Software Review Technical Review SQL API 108

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.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Cofounder Early Stage Artificial Inteligence 50

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. New York has an extremely active Meetup culture; almost every night there are 3-10 tech-focused events.

Government 146

Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

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.

Hiring 40

Hiring Technical Review Portfolio Software Engineering 40

blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Ranging from configuration issues to down time, to unresponsiveness of the technical staff. With the previous provider it took days to get to the bottom of the issue, primarily because technical support did not respond quickly enough. To learn more about S3, please read this post on my tech blog. There were constant problems.

EC2 40

EC2 Widget Software Review Startup 40

www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Electronic Arts is no different than many high-tech companies in this regard. Common programming measurements, like lines of code and function points are either easy to collect and of questionable value or difficult to define and collect. Most software companies will fire an employee who routinely shows up drunk for work.

Software Review 90

Software Review Technical Review Widget Los Angeles 90

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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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

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.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

These are the tasks that will be easiest to outsource – the tasks that require a technical or common skill that’s not specific to your product. I’ve found design to be much easier to outsource than programming. I would guess you will enjoy learning the technical aspects more than outsourcing them. 10 x on 07.15.09

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Software Review Startup HTML RSS 44

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.

Angel Investor 80

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. The Founder Institute is a global network of startups and mentors that helps entrepreneurs launch meaningful and enduring technology companies. Also on AOL Tech. Launch Date: April 16, 2009.

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.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84