Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Whether you’re considering launching a new business or looking to develop a new product in an established company, you may have a vision of a new technology will that expose a vulnerable flank in an entire industry or against key competitors. The ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 development team pushed battery technology to the bleeding edge.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

The advanced technical knowledge of university professors in engineering and science, for example, makes it harder for them to teach first-year students effectively. It can also come up in face-to-face meetings—sales pitches, conferences talks, account reviews, etc. Follow-up research highlights how the curse applies to other fields.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

You still need to: Create quality content on relevant topics that users search for; Make sure search engines can access it; Establish your site as an authority. Program building, such as reporting , education, culture building, and enablement and documentation. Partnering with your development team to templatize page creation.

SEO 121

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Every time an engineer checks in code, they are batching up a certain amount of work.

San Francisco 161

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Try Google.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. one more thought, where were the code reviews? Frustration is mounting.

San Francisco 158

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members. Jesse Davis , Entrustet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. I suddenly lose my ability to judge if our marketing programs are being effective. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Use pilot programs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I was looking for a job, just got out of my MBA program and I got very lucky and got connected to a guy that was about 15 years older than me from Deloitte who was starting his own management consulting firm. We rode the re-engineering process, re-engineering craze in the 1990s, but we did it from a change management perspective.

Leadership 72

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

San Francisco 88

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Here’s a review from Andrew Anderson from Malwarebytes : Andrew Anderson: “ Pros – Offers the best in-product segmentation available. Here’s a review from Johann Van Tonder of AWA Digital : Johann Van Tonder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

In this post, I’ll try to organise the various startup engagement and outreach programs at Google. This most likely involves a combination of an operational team (cloud, enterprise, commerce, etc) and the corporate development team, led by Don Harrison. This is where it starts getting a bit more complicated.

Technical Review 131

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

Best practice is to run this nice little program, or your own equivalent, once a week and send a report to your web development team with a list of pages missing the tags. # Source attributes : where do people come from (websites, campaigns, search engines etc etc). 2: Tags go last (customers come first :).

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Analytics Web Software Review 93

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? With certain complex products, this will need an on-site installation by a sales engineer, which sends costs through the roof. Sometimes, the customer will want a trial with their own data.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. Week 1 - New Feature 2 - Development and testing continue together.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. If done right, a programming interview serves two purposes simultaneously. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

If we showed the Toyota Production System to an Internet protocol engineer, it is likely that he would remark, "That is a tail-dropping FIFO queue. If engineers want their personal tests to get high priority, their best strategy is to add them to this large, high-priority test package. Wow, great review!

Product Development 153

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

This could be anything from making an appointment to joining a referral program. Hiring The Right Web Design And Development Team. Unless you’re a digital expert, you probably need a team of professional web design and development mavens to put together your medical site. Website Layout. fair pricing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. When they see a problem with the teams process, why dont they just fix it? Use pair programming and collective code ownership. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

Igor Balamut is providing services as a Senior Symfony PHP Engineer at Transformify, a Workforce & Vendor Management System. Just some days ago, we upgraded Payoneer API integration to the latest version and added support for the Euro program. Our development team is very careful in choosing development frameworks and tools.

Management 52

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

It became a little bit much when Snabe attempted to insert SAP into the narrative by joining unrelated technology advances, like NASA’s technology program and how SAP used hardware in the early days. users and only 29m reviews doesn’t suggest a high degree of interaction. over to fill the gap?). SAP knows databases.

Database 39

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

These serve to ensure that everyone who ends up on the development team knows what the system is for. More than one person can review it, but only one person can author. Theres an engineer currently looking at it, hopefully it (along with the email mock-up) should be back online within the hour.

Web 40

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. It depends on what other responsibilities team members have as well. Can the programming be outsourced and really get the end-product you’re looking for? Read some fun reviews of this site.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Likewise, Android developers that want to target the upcoming wave of Honeycomb tablets will need to create variations of their apps for the different device types. Fortunately, this problem has created a microcosm of cross-platform mobile development tools. Sourcebits has engineered over 200 apps to date, with plenty more to come.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Placement on the list was determined by a combination of the company’s G/SCORE assessment, stage and pace of growth, and business potential. In the Framework of the EC-Funded Invest in Med program, EyalGPS was one of three finalists to be awarded €90,000. Israeli Researchers pursue brain-operated computing.

Technical Review 87

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

CTO Hire 84

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 At Microsoft, Joel was responsible for defining the specification for a programming language for Microsoft Excel. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office.

Software Review 285

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