TechEmpower
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Assess the Company's Website: The company's own site provides a clue to its dedication to aesthetics and content. What are the employees and contractors' skills? Avoid them.
The Next Web
MARCH 6, 2014
Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. You need to build trust between these teams. This makes people more aware of what their team members are up to and creates more harmony.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 19, 2010
No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? Anything you read on popular blogs is also read by everyone else. Now Adriana has an epiphany?
ConversionXL
JUNE 16, 2020
So many are distracted by the bleeding-edge techniques and purported algorithm tweaks hyped on SEO blogs and Twitter. As we’ve grown from 1,500 employees to more than 3,000, I’ve seen many more “strategy” and “manager” types come on board, yet the number of “doers” doesn’t usually grow at the same rate. Content velocity.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? And let’s be honest, most employees, advisors, etc. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a case of needing Homework?
Ben's Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Interestingly, one of the first things that you learn when you run an engineering organization is that a good Quality Assurance organization cannot build a high quality product, but it can tell you when the development team builds a low quality product. The Employee Lifecycle. Is your management team world-class in all phases?
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 16, 2013
But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. We have a long history and so new employees have to spend a long time getting up to speed on the why, what, and how of everything that we do. Over a thousand people work here now.
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