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 work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

E-commerce and online brands are starting to crack digital marketing as the industry has been progressively adopting hyper-personalized advertising. Dosh’s CEO, Ryan Wuerch , says there are three crucial components we need to effectively address to master offline advertising: automation, location, and personalization.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Technical Support -- Key Accounts Manager. Platform Software Developer. Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager. Community Manager. Software Engineer. Marketing Manager. Senior Ruby Engineer.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Project Manager Dice Holdings Software Engineer, Python, YouTube Google/YouTube Web Developer Yelp Inc. Follow @TechCrunch. 2011 Holiday. Gift Guide. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Crunchboard. iOS Developer Anki, Inc. Marketing Lead at drchrono (Mountain View, CA) drchrono. Are There Too Many Stock Exchanges?

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Page360 awesome post W3 Consulting Note: you can have multiple domain names: one for conventional (and one for emotional) branding purposes, several for SEO/SEM purposes, and several for Web analytics (where are my *offline* advertising dollars breeding positive ROI?). 7 Handy iPhone Apps for Managing Empl. My company name is forever!

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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). It’s a dating website that is free for users and makes money from advertising. The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Advertising.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

I do know in looking at a little bit of your background, you're not software engineers, you didn't grow up in, in that necessarily. Todd Fisher (01:49): I was gonna say, I have a technical software engineering background. Laure Fisher (13:22): Also giving customers tools to manage the data that they collect.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Advertise with GeekWire. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. GeekWire Events. Startup Resources. About GeekWire. Contact Us.

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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. The underlying questions to ask here are simple: Do you want to manage the small details of the project?

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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. Another company which is going to have widespread impact is eShares, eShares is going to change the way the private companies manage their equity.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

It led to software applications that by default were complex, brittle and heavy. Although I know many brilliant software engineers who worked unexpected miracles with Web Services, implementation by the common corporate programmer was stodgy in every case I heard about. Goodbye, WS-I. Follow me as @webmink on Twitter and Identi.Ca

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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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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2019

Slow delivery times : When it comes to managing ecommerce logistics—coordinating online orders, fulfilment, and shipping—hiccups are inevitable. This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason [.] The result wasn’t as damaging for the brand as advertising experts predicted. Apologize publicly.

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Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

Simply having administrators black out candidates’ names and addresses before they’re reviewed by hiring managers is one surprisingly effective, easy place to start. Spending hours interviewing candidates just because they triggered the right buzzwords is emotionally draining, not just for candidates but for hiring managers, too.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. But once you put it in the real world you learn it never works as advertised. Project Maven became the basis for what we did in the JAIC. We started with a cross-functional team. You Need a Disrupter.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. You can get in touch with an ereseller with just a cold email, and you can be your first resellers’ program manager.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

Software Testing. Social Media Coordinator and Community Manager. Human Resource Management. 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. Transcription. Article and Blog Writing. Photography.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

by Melissa Lincoln, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Leadspace. Home to major branches of many advertising and marketing agencies, including Publicis, Ogilvy, IDEO, and Razorfish to name just a few, San Francisco also offers a rich talent pool of workers with sales and marketing expertise.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Advertisement. When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Advertising. The three biggest competitors (onet.pl, wp.pl, gazeta.pl) are also living mostly on selling flash advertisements.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

If you’re not a good public speaker and you don’t enjoy it, don’t take a position in management where you have to present to executives every month. We don’t shoot out of our mothers ready to become software engineers. If you’re not a good writer and don’t enjoy it, don’t start a blog.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

You might be slowly building a fan base on Facebook ( if you’re buying fans on Facebook by advertising, you’re very likely wasting your money ), sharing small bits of content on Twitter and posting images to Pinterest. Tip: Consider how the URLs on your site will look to search engines and people.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. At that point I was a few years into my career and working as a project manager at Apple.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But the restaurants liked it at first cause it tracked how effective their advertising was. I was making about half as much money as I did as a software developer, which wasn't great, but it was like, okay, this is all right. Build, manage, and measure campaigns —across all channels — faster and easier. I had quit my job.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

You might think that you’re building a fan base on Facebook ( if you’re buying fans on Facebook by advertising, you’re very likely wasting your money ), sharing small bits of content on Twitter and posting images to Pinterest. Tip: Consider how the URLs on your site will look to search engines and people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. I have found this quite rare in engineers. Communication.

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

at 3:03 am To x: The point is that as a software engineer you get obsessed with irrelevant detail. . #10 x on 07.15.09 a better va maybe spends only 10 mins. You have ego and a desire to solve problems yourself. You can’t let go. You want to be the hero of every situation and the bride at every wedding.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

A certain percentage of developers become unhappy with salaried development over time (typically it’s shortly after they’re asked to manage people, or maintain legacy code), and they dream of breaking out of the cube walls and running their own show. Aside from working at Best Buy. Use those if you want to stay on your job. #7

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups. 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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

We are a group who support mental health practitioners with office management and administrative tasks remotely. I only managed a few months there before leaving to create a solution. When I worked at Facebook, I worked with a variety of businesses and ad agencies that were advertising on the Facebook platform.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. are also reasonable and flexible.

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www.fastcompany.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

Anytime you have so many layers of software--algorithms, really--nobody knows how one new layer will affect the other layers. It’s incredible; people don’t realize how many software engineers Wall Street takes off the market. ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. Manage Subscriptions. Do You Believe In Aliens?”

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. Doing so does not take advantage of a software developers experience. Especially the first section. I havent been able to do that on any of my projects yet!

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