Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

No cost, not formal strings attached. Higher cost, but great facility. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Investors: Antonio Rodriguez – Matrix Partners, HP ( blog , @antrod ). David Skok – Matrix Partners ( blog , @bostonvc ). Applications due Nov 20 th !

Boston 56

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Indeed.com said that Austin is the best place for a software engineer to get a job where his paycheck goes the farthest compared to the cost of living. Here is a partial list of the Capital Factory Partners who are backing this investment. for the second year in a row.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Where necessary, produce cost-benefit and risk justifications for IT initiatives to win budgetary support from the board.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you have a friend who is a recruiter then ask them to tell you what they recommend that will not cost anything. This means considering what the opportunity cost for working on a high risk venture is relative to other things they can spend their time on. If they own a Mac Book Pro that may cost around $1,800 bucks (new).

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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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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

You're going to spend many multiples of what the domain name would have cost you to create brand recognition. Mark Suster (GRP Partners VC) nails it in this (audio, summary blog post) clip I borrowed from a recent ThisWeekInVentureCapital (#twivc) episode. But don't take my word for it. link] / Mangesh Powar Amazingg article.

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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. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. Leveraging existing networks has greater benefits than simply cost savings and convenience. The talent market has gotten as competitive and aggressive as I have ever seen in the last 20 years.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? How can we phase development to balance cost, features, risk, etc? How do we balance concerns vs. cost? How will we address these without significant cost?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

The human toll a virus could inflict and the immense economic cost of the emergency response stayed with him. As a child living in Hong Kong through SARS, he saw first hand the human toll a virus could inflict, and the immense economic cost of the emergency response. As a child, Alpha Lee lived through the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC is how much money you can spend to get someone to become a customer. LTV ­ CAC = ROI.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I pitched potential teammates to join me, investors to fund us, businesses to partner with us and customers to use us. I learned that software engineers?—?or Over the next few years, I experienced all the highs and lows of trying to develop a product, get it in the hands of users and then get the users to love and share it.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Ask them how much they think such a solution would cost them. It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. If you started the company yourself consider bringing on a “partner.&# By this I mean somebody who has a large and meaninful percentage of stock options – but nowhere near 50%.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Speakers and partners of Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, and other world-leading companies came up with the services and products which will support the new technology and are to be released in 2019. It’s expected to cut costs for healthcare services. Manufacturing will become faster and cheaper, products – more complex.

Technical Review 79

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

No cost, not formal strings attached. Higher cost, but great facility. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Investors: Antonio Rodriguez – Matrix Partners, HP ( blog , @antrod ). David Skok – Matrix Partners ( blog , @bostonvc ). Now doing 2 classes each year!

Boston 72

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Use the Best Hosting Provider Your Money Can Buy As a startup you are looking for ways to keep the costs down. This is a mistake that will cost you a lot of time, which is more valuable than the money you will spend. And if instead, you will try to do it yourself, your total cost might end up much higher. Startups!!!

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. We typically do this by partnering with graduate student teams. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

This ranged from unrealistic assumptions about what the technical person will do ("Some non-technical people want a software engineer to not only code, but also be the PM, graphic designer, online ad expert, etc. Any thoughts on how to be realistic about implementation feasibility, options, costs? Again, nice to see this.

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The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

Both my parents and my sister are software engineers … I actually have female co-founders in my companies – an amazing developer & manager Agata (also included in that Top 100 list) and Socha, an architect-turned-designer. My partners are making all that possible, it’s pure teamwork.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in First Round has been an incredible partner in our journey from startup to public company. investors, employees, clients, and partners. If we don’t, then the paper is worth as much as the cost of the ink to print it. in our Series A. with the portfolio to show for it. as managers?—?going

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

But his experiments, which hed been conducting for at least 12 years, showed him clearly that cutting the workday from ten hours to eight hours — and the workweek from six days to five days — increased total worker output and reduced production cost. At that point, the costs strongly begin to outweigh the advantages.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 29, 2020

29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23) He was an immigrant from Romania, a software engineer, came to the Bay Area, did Y Combinator, started a company, sold it, made connections, and became part of this ecosystem. 27:06) Helpwithcovid's DNA. (27:55)

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

If you are a creative guy with a good head for business looking for an engineering partner, send me a summary of your idea and business plan, and I'll do the implementation!" I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Thus, the opportunity cost of joining your half-baked venture is dramatically lower than it is for legit professionals. Imagine you’re a highly-trained software engineer. link] Giff Fun post.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. Shame on you for spinning your desire for junior developers as being solely related to cost. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. March 25, 2011 at 7:16 pm. Joel Martinez.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

The reason why many have started using the debt note, is because with no complications, an average convertible debt deal can be sealed with a five to seven page legal agreement that takes just a few hours to finish, and costs $5,000 or less. Kleiner Perkins Partners With Rock Health To Give Health Tech Startups A Boost. Crunchboard.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And for students of economics, you see the cost curve. Your marginal costs and your average costs of building software do not go down over time. What’s ironic is that software is one of the few businesses where the more you build, the cheaper it gets, it should. The graph on the left just doesn’t work.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our computer should be, debating cost and time-to-market tradeoffs of arcane details such as double-buffering, 24 versus 32-bits of color, alpha channels, etc. The conversation that day would become one of my professional watermarks.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services. Reason Two: Ridiculously High Cost of Living in the Bay Area. ” Last year, the cut off was $105,350.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Misunderstandings cant run on too long.

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