YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2019

Steve Jobs is often hailed as a technological genius, but his hiring principles are equally stellar: he was famously in favor of hiring only the best professionals. Logo and the website design aren’t the only things that create the company image: company culture does it as well. ingrained it into everything they do.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Serious businesses always have well-designed websites. The good news for startups and other businesses with limited funds (or, who have financially savvy owners) is that you don’t (necessarily) need to hire an expensive team of software developers to create an app. Hire a team or do it yourself. Hire a development team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Since then, over 400 Insight alumni have been hired as data scientists or data engineers at top tier companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Airbnb, and Google. Or that mechanical engineers design and code models for computational fluid dynamics? Three ways to hire a data scientist.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

A strong web design can help a restaurant to more effectively market itself, can help convert visitors who find the restaurant by searching, for example, on Yelp, shopping for a deal through Groupon, or searching on Google or Bing. Today, we’ll review 10 web design marketing best practices and tips for restaurant web design.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. 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. Aline Lerner's Blog. Jun 21, 2013.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. ” to the more complex, “Can you design Google?” office, right in the heart of MIT.

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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. Another example – a marketplace : Tastemaker is a marketplace connecting interior designers with homeowners for small design gigs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

and tips for buyers looking for logo design. Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Keep the site design simple, fresh, and unique.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

and tips for buyers looking for logo design. Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Keep the site design simple, fresh, and unique.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. Bishay would charge tuition but would refund it if the students got jobs as developers and he earned a recruitment fee from the hiring company. A Vocational School for Programmers.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc. Digging deeper and researching corporate social responsibility (CSR) and diversity hiring programs took a few months, but it was worth the effort.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Call it whatever you like, but when businesses are hiring for any of those titles they simply want somebody who can generate lots of quality leads for as little cash as possible.”. A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well. Who do you hire second, third, fourth?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

500-rated, top-ranked conversation analytics software serving over 30,000 businesses around the world. One of my favorite episodes who should be your first hire, what's your funding plan, Dr. Lisa Cravin shares her top advice from building spotlight oral. Listen to the female startup club, wherever you get your podcasts.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Diego Basch

APRIL 28, 2012

There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. The point of an engineering interview is to figure out if you want to hire a person or not. Not hiring anyone is also extremely damaging.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Three concepts I found particularly helpful: Process = discipline.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

The otherwise identical homes could be customized with the interior designs, embellishments and personal touch of the owners. Today in the tech industry, we’re entering an era of Levittown software, and the change is important for all businesses. This Levittown model is the future of payments software. Sound familiar?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. Get the real smart home with Think Automatic’s learning and sensing software. at Tagboard.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

As you grow, think about the right timing for bringing on more people with specific roles, but remember – hire slow, fire fast. As Tony Hsieh of Zappos pointed out during his DCWEEK visit, bad hires have accounted for millions of lost dollars through the years. So if you do find your duplicate, hire them as soon as possible.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

It is incumbent on management to create and sustain an environment that leads to hiring, encourages quality work, rewards effort and accomplishment, treats workers fairly, pays an equitable wage, provides for basic welfare, respects families, supplies adequate work flexibility, and, importantly, celebrates the work itself. Thanks, guys!

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages. iOS Developer Anki, Inc.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Almost certainly accounting is a support service and should be outsourced (unless, perhaps, you’re selling accounting software and you need to eat your own dogfood!).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2014

According to its blog, LinkedIn “compiled the list by analyzing millions of interactions between Bay Area startups with less than 500 employees and the more than 337,000 Bay Area software engineers and IT professionals on LinkedIn.” Minted (“The world’s premier marketplace for independent design”).

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

By leveraging remote workforce management software, you can digitize and streamline various processes to monitor and improve your employees’ productivity. Fortunately, an effective workforce management system lets you easily source, track, and hire top talents in just a few clicks. Onboarding. Scheduling and time tracking.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. FreshTilledSoil - User Interface Design. Ruby specialists.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Sample from Hypergiant , expert data scientist Drew Lipman, and EVP of Design Chris Klee will lead this panel that’s sure to give high-quality advice that goes beyond the hype. You don’t need rockstar engineers. You need a rockstar engineering organization. Technologist C.K. Hunting and Gathering Data is so Paleolithic!”

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2018

As a manufacturing engineer, Bianco takes design specifications, puts them into work instructions and then works to ensure that satellite hardware is built correctly. Smith said while the company is not hiring large numbers of people, it is aware that its average worker is 50 and wants to prepare for the future.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Ravikant explains that this feature is designed to encourage more startups to raise funding from legitimate investors via AngelList. It’s clear that AngelList wants to help bring much of the transactional conversations and introductions that happen at the early stage of hiring and fundraising via word of mouth or in meetings online.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. I know many people who think that software works like magic, but to me it actually was magic.

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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. We’re hiring a lot right now – we brought on a COO in the fall, we’re hiring for more program staff and a director of talent now.

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