Conversion Fractional VPE Hiring Product 
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2014
He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. Ben Horowitz ’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is driving the conversation around startup management this year. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth.
Austin Startup
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. The Face of the Product and Technology A CTO is often the face of the technology and product. They will attend conferences and tradeshows to evangelize your product and technology.
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Austin Startup
AUGUST 19, 2018
Why Corporate Innovation Fails Design Sprints Done Right: Creating Lasting Change User-centered design is critical in making or breaking consumer technologies, but sometimes, on small product teams, day-to-day needs can get in the way of larger, longer term goals and solutions that resonate with your customer can’t manage to get off the launch pad.
Steve Blank
JUNE 25, 2009
Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. I’ve convinced the team you’d be perfect, come join us as the VP of Marketing.”
www.women2.org
MARCH 8, 2012
After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Consequently, I either needed a tech co-founder or to pay someone to develop the product. I attended engineering-focused Meetups and networking events.
www.paulgraham.com
AUGUST 1, 2008
We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. In essense, let the market design the product. As the volume of startups increases, big companies will start to develop standardized procedures that make acquisitions little more work than hiring someone. Weve done the same thing ourselves.
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