article thumbnail

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

And the only way you’re going to get there is through building common platform services and the application architecture that internet-scale companies do today. I want you to leave your job, where you’re getting free meals, where you’re living and working around a bunch of other software engineers.

article thumbnail

The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

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. Leverage the power of the Internet to reach a global audience. Startups play in a bigger field.

Cofounder 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

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. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

article thumbnail

My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995. Trust your allies too.

article thumbnail

Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., Saurya: I think that’s right, and I think getting to that point in the interview is definitely important. Editor’s Note: NextView recently kicked off a Boston-based workshop series on technical interviewing with Google.

article thumbnail

Business Apologies: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Do

ConversionXL

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 [.] She vacationed to a remote location with no internet, only for her social media scheduling tools to stop working the day she left.

article thumbnail

TNW Profile: Credictive founder Ela Madej on being ‘a woman in tech’, Rainbows and Unicorns

The Next Web

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. One thing you can say – it’s definitely more quiet in Poland now that I am away haha.