Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2011

Watching Watson kick Ken Jennings ass in Jeopardy a few weeks ago definitely felt like a win for software, but someone (I can’t remember who) had the fun line that “it still took a data center to beat Ken Jennings.&#. If you agree with this, the implications are profound. The robots are coming.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2010

They don’t all need to become software engineers (never mind that I think most software engineers today, aren’t) but a basic understanding of how to build something simple and useful to them. We are definitely living in a world where both are important, but the not-physical is becoming increasingly pervasive.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. Would more come?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2014

There has never been a better time to be an engineer, with companies feverishly competing to recruit the best and brightest. But while some engineers may be motivated to work for the highest bidder, most are driven by something more intangible, according to VisionMobile survey data: They want to change the world. Lytro (3.9 Lytro (3.9

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Definition of A Startup. A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. Startups play in a bigger field.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

For many startups, this was the secret to massive success : David Quail is a super talented software engineer, with one exit already under his belt. There’s a bit of a learning curve, depending on how you want to use it, but definitely a faster option than finding a developer or learning to code. Put it all together.

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2017

Last week I had the honor of speaking at the “Engineers turned Entrepreneurs” panel at the 3 Day Startup Global Roundup. Having graduated as an Electrical Engineer and worked as a Software Engineer at IBM, I felt I perfectly fit the bill. Note that got left by a customer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

I do know in looking at a little bit of your background, you're not software engineers, you didn't grow up in, in that necessarily. Todd Fisher (01:49): I was gonna say, I have a technical software engineering background. Um, you came from other professions, so I'd love to hear what led you, uh, to where we are today.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." The value proposition is definitely interesting and the company has already validated with customers. Discuss.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Bitcoin is a software engineer’s implementation of money (as distinct from, for example, a politician’s, banker’s, or economist’s). But it’s definitely worth talking to experienced programmers when trying to understand a particular platform, protocol, or application. It follows.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

The more complex your stack is, the more customer data you are spreading across many different tools, and the more time you (or your engineering team) will need to reassemble the puzzle and get a full reasonable picture. Marketing and Sales departments are strongly aligned on the definition of MQLs.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. QThru lands $3.5M

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Because we didn’t have a good definition of true unit tests and because our feature was actually pretty tightly tied to some complex DB logic, we ended up writing almost entirely integration tests.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Because we didn’t have a good definition of true unit tests and because our feature was actually pretty tightly tied to some complex DB logic, we ended up writing almost entirely integration tests.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. As a result, the people doing initial resume filtering are not engineers. Enter recruiters or HR people.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Beautiful space in the South Boston Innovation District. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Filament Group – User Interface and Design. Raizlabs – Mobile Development. Places to Hang.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. The following interview by Steven Loeb was published in Vator.tv on 5 September 2015 and is reproduced below in its entirety.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A recent job posting by zlien , a construction industry software company, frames the product manager’s mindset this way: Do you find yourself staring at a complex world and identifying problems to engineer away? so that the talent, the designers, engineers, analysts and data scientists, can focus on their core work.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

We launched the CODE2040 Fellows Program, which places top black and Latino/a software engineering students in internships, with five students in summer 2012. LWP: I definitely don’t think we talk about diversity too much. HW: Are you tired of hearing people talk about diversity?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It was definitely a huge leap to leave the corporate world (and the salary and security that comes with it) and start a company. 11 – US Army Classified as a Computer Engineer. I worked for the US Army as a civilian employee classified as a computer engineer. Thanks to Bryan Clayton, GreenPal ! #11

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I received a great question via LinkedIn: I'm the founding engineer and working hard to launch my startup. " There are definitely cases where the lead developer grows into a CTO. I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. The definition of entrepreneurship is ‘ insane perseverance in the face of complete resistance.’ I always knew that I would someday start my own company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Having founded active campaign as a means to fund his education, Jason pursued a degree in fine arts until shifting his focus entirely to growing the company and his self-taught software engineer and technologist. Jason (21:22): Yeah, no, definitely check that out.

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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. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

One of the recurring themes in the people that I've spoken to in the last few weeks is a society wide sudden realization about the importance of science as the engine of progress, And the importance of having science driven policy, as if somehow we didn't know that before, but somehow we didn't. Let me ask you about your background.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 19, 2010

One of our software engineers wrote all the code. After a week of this (where we probably got two analyses done because of the time it took to iterate on the changes requested by the client for the app) I decided to spend some time with our engineer who was working on it.

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www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Software Engineering. code organization across files No thought given to organizing code across files Related files are grouped into a folder Each physical file has a unique purpose, for e.g. one class definition, one feature implementation etc. Reads tech/programming/software engineering blogs and listens to podcasts regularly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. I have found this quite rare in engineers. Many of us engineers are strong introverts, without fantastic people skills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Definitely. Now that's, it's a little bit misleading in the sense that the investment, I could write the software myself because I got a software engineering degree from mit. That's definitely need that breath of experience, don't you? Mike Evans (02:40): Yeah, it is, it is. It's a business memoir, in fact.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. On the other hand, the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (used in the Sun and Apollo engineering workstations) and the IBM 360/370 mainframes were big-endian. What a great idea.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Hack/Reduce – Big Data Hackspace. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3. Ruby specialists.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But we are definitely planning to come back and re-evaluate EC2 in the nearest future, as it is excellent approach to scaling your application. December 27, 2007 at 9:31 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! : Management console that makes tasks easier is one essential that we are waiting for. Startups!!!

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2019

And despite what the old adage says, the customer is most definitely not always right. This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason [.] Because in the world of customer centricity, there are good customers…and then there is everybody else. This was not a corporate decision.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Technically inclined people can definitely build something on their own, and then seek a non-technical cofounder, retaining more equity for themselves. Self Promotion Hirelite is having its first web-based "speed interviewing" event on July 27th for companies and startups in NYC looking for software engineers.

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