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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business. SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software. Previously, this was a popular option among SMB owners.

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Spotlight on Engineering Team Building: Lessons learned from Algolia

Cracking the Code

Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec. 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.

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“Change is hard and change is slow. But I think we’re on the right track.” CODE2040’s Laura Weidman Powers on Diversity in Tech

Hunter Walker

My business is about investing in extraordinary founder talent so it pains me that I can’t write a Homebrew Term Sheet to Laura Weidman Powers. We launched the CODE2040 Fellows Program, which places top black and Latino/a software engineering students in internships, with five students in summer 2012.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker. On the 4th of July, 2015, I shared my vision with Erin. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete.

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

Austin Startup

Darren Nix , Group Manager of the Assessments product team at Indeed and founder of the Y Combinator -backed startup Interviewed (acquired by Indeed), puts it this way: “Users can’t design your product for you. Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Twitter Link Roundup #247 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/12gwMCO. 13 Things Startup Founders Aren’t Thankful For – crowdspring.co/1B6KrdY. Web Design and Digital Content Ghost Buttons, The First Potential Trend of 2015 | Top Design Magazine – crowdspring.co/1qdyijB. A Refresher on Net Present Value – crowdspring.co/11LJvw6.