Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. thanks to the well-developed tourism industry.

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Africa Benin Seychelles Nigeria 75

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Magento e-commerce system is not very common in Russia where there are few serious implementations in domestic e-commerce, and there are almost no competent developers either. But in the world of CMS, Magento development now occupies a leading position. For instance, you can hire a dedicated magento developer at Elogic.

Developer 156

Developer Technology Architecture Russia 156

View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We hire generalists because the company wants to be able to dissolve one division one day if it’s not working, and then move those same people into something else that’s new or already working.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Engineer Software Review Founder 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

Finding that person is not a hiring challenge, since neither of you really get paid until you both succeed. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation.

Technical Review 230

Technical Review Technology Founder Management 230

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

Finding that person is not a hiring challenge, since neither of you really get paid until you both succeed. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation.

Technical Review 236

Technical Review Partner Entrepreneur Architecture 236

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada.

Intellectual Property 222

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 222

SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

You can’t afford and don’t want to hire a full-time CTO or architect. While Bob’s post focuses on Technology Advisors and the Startup Founder Developer Gap , we also discussed advisors more broadly. In Bob’s post, he tells startup founders to get smart on product design, software architecture and development process.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Hand this to a competant outsourced development shop and what you've got is a great start. Contrast that with finding the best developer you can find, but giving that person a poorly designed and conceived product to build and you're not going to wind up anywhere. They also go much deeper than just "making a site pretty".

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Cofounder CTO Hire Design Founder 144

blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. While interviewing such a wide cross section of people, I realized that I had a golden opportunity to test some of the prevalent folk wisdom about hiring. As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 98

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada.

Intellectual Property 225

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 225

Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

He moved out to Colorado to attend CU Boulder, starting a degree in Architecture only to find out he was more passionate about Business. It can be a small and nimble startup like Origin, or a company with 50 employees and hiring more every quarter. He also wasn’t a pro at marketing, so he looked for marketers.

Entrepreneur 132

Entrepreneur Lean Colorado Engineer 132

mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.

CTO Hire 73

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Funding – Knowing the right people (and how to pitch them) so your business gains additional capital for the things that matter like product development, hiring, service, and expansion. Here are but a few you and the business could stumble upon: 1.

Technical Review 180

Technical Review Architecture Software Review Reputation 180

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. But a good developer could make it quicker.”.

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Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 12, 2021

He let me develop my own ideas and arrive at my own solutions to my business problems at a much faster rate than if I did so alone with no one to guide me. . 3- Helps employees develop skills. So, mentorship helps each individual employee develop their personal skills and examine how to advance in the direction they want to go. .

Entrepreneur 125

Entrepreneur Technical Review Advisory Board Leadership 125

The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

A limited understanding of a market, coupled with a lack of resources and allocation, can lead to product and architectural decisions which feel rushed in hindsight but seem necessary to keep the lights on in the moment. This complexity also slows ramp time of new hires, increases configuration errors, and introduces bugs.

Mobile 129

Mobile Architecture CTO Hire Engineer 129

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Recent developments in applications have rendered the firewall outdated and incapable of deciphering the good and trusted from the bad traffic. by David Nagrosst, head of sales for Cyxtera Technologies in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japan. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end. The onset of death.

Security 140

Security Software Review Technical Review API 140

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In this guide, we’ll discuss how to implement a brand reputation management strategy, use personal branding to develop a good reputation, and protect your company from developing a negative one. A positive reputation also contributes to business goals (such as growth, leveraging social proof , and network development).

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Reputation Audience Management Social Media 134

Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

Web Development Firm hired to do “Conceptualization Phase” – This usually includes thorough wire-framing (Paid per project). Many entrepreneurs think they can bypass this team member by simply going to a web development firm and asking for a free proposal. Development Plan (Timelines/Costs/Budgets).

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO Architecture Cofounder 55

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Bulgaria Lean 374

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code written to find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling.

Part-Time VPE 323

Part-Time VPE Agile Engineer Startup 323

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

This includes creating the Information Security Program, training on secure development of products, and/or implementing the security architecture of their infrastructure. Do we have offshore developers? Hire qualified internal resources or outsource as needed for the required IT positions. Do we have store fronts?

Security 100

Security Intellectual Property CTO Hire Offshore 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. They often aren’t great at planning development work. You still have some leeway to hire above them if need be.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 400

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

Product Development 88

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 23, 2018

You should not have to hire an IT specialist to add new content to your website. Therefore, you need to contact an expert or hire a web development service that can help you update your website and give you the tools to learn how to do it yourself for periodic updates. Therefore, website design is often overlooked.

eCommerce 81

eCommerce Analytics SEO Architecture 81

Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

I have covered a couple of topics in this series, the first being hiring the best people and the second organizing for success based on the attributes of the people you are hiring. engineers paired would jump from frontend to backend erratically at each sprint iteration.

Product 62

Product CTO Hire Architecture Startup 62

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada.

Software 129

Software Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete 129

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A chief technology officer (CTO) is a C-suite executive who is focused on scientific and technological issues including web applications, mobile applications, electronic and digital media development. A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire CTO Technical Review 54

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.” These hires were definitely not your standard marketing types.

Engineer 221

Engineer Silicon Valley Part-Time VPE Advisory Board 221

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Based on my posts Startup CTO or Developer and Acting CTO , Chris O’Meara wrote an interesting post Startup CTO: Could It Work? They tend to have the knack for architecture. Common sense says you'd do your best to hire or otherwise permanently engage that lead developer. They were hired to build stuff.

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Architecture 150

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In your experience, do you often work with companies lacking strategic hires, and do you assist in team building? A few are architectural design companies. You really do develop a deeper relationship than just businesswise. [14:11] In terms of educating clients, how does this role differ from traditional agency models? [15:10]

Social Media 77

Social Media Software Review Hiring Framework 77

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

As entrepreneurs in Colorado, we are writing because the Protect IP Act, now moving through the Senate (along with its House counterpart), poses a significant risk to the innovation, entrepreneurship, and job creation that has characterized the Internet’s development.

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Colorado Internet Intellectual Property United States 150

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though. What made them exceptional?

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Supercomputers get Personal Back in Sunnyvale my friend had not only been hired but had convinced the team that we should be building hardware – making a new class of computers not a software application. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. We were going to be guessing.

North Carolina 131

North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 131

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. He complemented their elegantly designed minicomputers and made some astute comment about their architecture (now I’m rolling my eyes, their computers were dinosaurs) and asked who were the brilliant designers.

Technology 143

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 143

Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

The first version of the product was based on an architectural approach that didn’t aptly satisfy all players in the ecosystem and wasn’t flexible enough. Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO. I’m super proud of Jud and the team he’s built at Gnip.

CTO Hire 131

CTO Hire Cofounder Architecture Product Development 131