Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. operates at seven 9s reliability.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2019

Technical support specialists is another name for help desk technicians, operations analysts, or problem managers. Technical support technicians manage hardware and software issues at the basic user level. . Computer programmers help develop software programs. Mobile App Developers .

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Sales teams have been using their CRMs for basic, day-to-day-functions — such as managing customer information and tracking purchase history — for decades. In that time, CRMs have faithfully served as a place to store data, log notes, and manage contacts. Xavier was previously Director of Act!

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Bunker is a project management and online billing service built by small web application developer Focus Centric that is positioned for use by freelancers and small businesses. “I did not find anything,” rues St Pierre.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

Use existing team to find a new manager or peer. If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations. Outsource your technical requirements.

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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. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

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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’s difficult to be an entrepreneur — whether you’re a recent college graduate or have managed multiple companies. Don’t start a company right out of college.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable. Massive overtime.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount. New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Project/ Product Management.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. Toward that end, they have created two products.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Designing for Content Management Systems – [link]. Managing Graphics and Icons in your Designs – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Managing Graphics and Icons in your Designs – [link].

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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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blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

For sure, Apple iOS development skills (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch applications); anything web related (particularly, User Interface/UI talents, web front end work, database backend, etc.); and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software).

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

For the non-expert businessperson, this means advice about “what software to use&# but also guidance through the arcane arts of software development, including advice about programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, software architecture, revision control systems, and other hacker black magic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes.

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Transformify

MAY 27, 2020

Transformify HR Suite , a UK-based HR software company has joined forces with Paymo to provide a seamless contingent workforce management solution. To address these needs, Transformify has launched Freelancer Management System that lets hiring managers to. Manage working capital, budgeting, payment terms, etc.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2006

I had dinner tonight with a portfolio company CEO who has managed to shift most of his resources to India. " In other words, most software development opportunities are with consulting firms where employees work on a project basis. development manager. "Let them work on your crown jewels."

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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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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

From a development and operations perspective, the common element in successful software businesses seems to be the technical leader. They tend to have the knack for architecture. They tend to understand the product management side of the product well enough to guide the technology in a complementary way.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

When a company gets to be a certain size, hiring managers don’t have the bandwidth to look over every resume and treat every applicant like a unique and beautiful snowflake. Instead, they prefer problems that gradually build on themselves and open-ended design and architecture questions. The results.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 9, 2009

But specifically do you mean design, information architecture, user registration, etc.? In a future post, I’d love for you to elaborate more on this sentence: “Especially with a completely un-optimized sales website, which is the easiest kind to improve.&# What exactly does un-optimized mean? 2 Rob on 12.09.09

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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. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But the rest of the management team really skeptical. And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

These two extreme positions lead to factional strife in development teams, which is extremely unpleasant. Managers start to make a note of who’s on which faction, and then assign projects accordingly. My last job was as a build and release manager. I'd be constantly redefining done for developers.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

He is a great speaker and I enjoyed the speech, but after 40mn, I was still waiting to hear about the future of software. Requires more capital because: - It is harder to develop for many new factors like tenant data isolation, user management, subscription services, etc.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 31, 2016

As a professor at Pepperdine University, Zarik has been teaching and mentoring MBA and undergraduate Business school students in entrepreneurship, International Management, Venture initiation, and Operational courses. www.augmentecture.com Augmented reality solution for design and architectural industry. Zarik holds a B.S.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

However, we also want to make sure that we can give teams guidance about how to think about these services so that we don’t end up as a large set of mismatched services of vastly different sizes and no cohesive overarching architecture. At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

For startups, this shouldn’t be a huge problem because you should have a product person who manages the whole experience and can resolve the public good problem. they even have a name for it , after having done some real-world experiments + it's context in software. what a coincidence. See [link].

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

The Cloud has simplified and accelerated time to development, Big Data has made applications smarter and more predictive, and Microservices are changing the way we think about our application architecture. Needless to say, it’s a fun time to be a software developer. But, as with every revolution, new problems emerge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. I know them right away - we can talk high-level architecture all the way down to the bits-and-bytes of his system. Just change it.

Software Review 94

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 19, 2011

What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management - [link]. My thoughts on how to “upgrade&# ones mind …Mindset Architecture – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. There’s Always a Plan B - [link].

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 24, 2018

Starting my own architecture and interior design firm, Spacesmith, has given me the ultimate creative freedom to come up with an idea, envision an outcome, and then figure out how to make it happen. As the owner and managing director of PPC Protect, I’m fortunate to have had a wonderful journey so far as an entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. I loved the novelty of it, the architecture, the strange foods, stores, toilets – everything. It turned into this blog.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 16, 2010

Information Architecture: Enhancing the User Experience – [link]. 5 Tools For Freelancers To Manage Their Time – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 5 Tools For Freelancers To Manage Their Time – [link].

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