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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. In fact, every time there is an engineering-related question, the first person I go to is Sin-Mei. Besides unit testing, engineers also perform manual developer end-to-end testing.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Startup Executive Compensation Scorecard

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Our experience shows that meaningfully appropriate peer groups in the 10 to 30 range are possible for almost all of the tech and life science companies in our database. At this point, the user clicks the “generate PDF&# button and voila, you get a high resolution 1-page PDF that looks like the image below.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. Massive proprietary databases? Instead, they find options and can communicate them to everyone in the company. Find the 80/20 - this was my favorite part of the job. I mean, have you seen other people? They might do anything !

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Just change it.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Scaling Lesson 1: Focus On Finding A Great Business Model.

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

blog.expensify.com

Expensify Blog. Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. But finding such people is more than a full time job. Indeed, I spend about half my time on it, while Lisa spends about all hers. Sunday edit : Still going!

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