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How to Structure a Modern, Customer-Driven Product Team

View from Seed

Two software engineers, either back-end or front-end, report into the tech lead. In this setup, the engineering team runs the product organization. In this customer-driven model, a tech lead acts as the highest in command. They own the solution.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Experience Five years experience directing IT; a further five years software engineering management or operations management experience ; and two years experience in a start-up or highly entrepreneurial environment. Choose platform and architecture for prototypes and V1 projects, and provide cost-effective 80/20 solutions.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Now let me clarify — NET is a dandy language. ” Don’t get me wrong: NET on your resume isn’t an instant showstopper. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. And at the time,NET was the best choice for those problems.

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

Austin Startup

I learned that software engineers?—?or That’s how I decided that MAUs were an “important to know” metric but what really mattered is the Net Promoter Score (NPS) of a demand-user who interacted with a supplier who used our app. or developers?—?are are just as much artists as they are scientists. Be careful, though!