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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

San Francisco and Tel Aviv are two of the greatest cities in the world for tech, each with a distinct culture and unique benefits to offer. Leadspace was founded in 2010 and maintains offices in both San Francisco and just outside Tel Aviv in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Let’s start with San Francisco.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

But that’s outsourcing development — it does not mean have a boundaryless team. These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. In the race to build a great software product, engineering talent is oxygen. The best way to win the talent war?

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Talk about waste.

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Why Software Development Estimations Are Regularly Off

Diego Basch

This view has been debunked decades ago; this analogy was frequently seen as an aspiration for the future when I did my Master in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon in the late nineties. Software is not about repeating, it’s about inventing. The analogy of hikers going from San Francisco to L.A.

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

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. San Francisco-based Developer Boot Camp was an idea that started with a friend in need. You are a developer and you don't know it,'” Bishay said.

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Transformify: The Sustainable Platform for Remote Jobs

Transformify

Speaking of sales and business development, during the first few years, it was hard to convince businesses to create remote jobs. Earthquakes and talent scarcity in tech hubs like San Francisco, London, New York, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Paris and so on could disrupt the business of many tech companies.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. During this period, the Palantir Gotham team grew from five developers to around 35. Week 0 - New Feature 1 - Software engineers are busy building brand new features.

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