www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

According to the Dow Jones research, 43 early-stage funds raised $3.1 Madrona’s new $300 million fund — while the largest in the firm’s history — certainly qualifies in the early-stage group. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software.

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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. Marketing Lead at drchrono (Mountain View, CA) drchrono.

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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. At K9 we focus on the first two, either core new technologies and technology platforms or new markets. That’s what K9 does.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. This is just the next phase of AngelList’s evolution into a one-stop shop for seed-stage companies and their backers.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

If you’re still in the early stages of your entrepreneur-education/journey, you may even think you need to protect your idea and not share it with anyone. Here are some learnings and what I immediately think about when I see a pitch: 1) Ideas are a dime a dozen…AND it’s important to stand out.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. . Jeremy Johnson.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Paul Cheek, a serial tech-preneur, educator, and software engineer. This is John Jantsh.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Capitalize - Regular pitch events where early stage companies get direct feedback from local VC’s. 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. Invite only.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering. You work long hours at below-market rates for stock options, a chance to participate in the financial payout of the company’s success.

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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). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# PR/Marketing.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. Although I have an EE and CS education, my best contribution to technology businesses has been in strategy/sales/marketing/leadership. Big boy applications.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Platform Software Developer. Software Cloud Engineer III. Email Address.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. This is your wage range for both the market and for this type of job.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

This leads to a set of questions: What is the role of a CTO in the early stages of a company, and does that role change later on as both the company and that individual matures? I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. How will I know when the need has arisen?

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. These people abound in New York.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. But in the early stages of a startup you are still trying to hone in on what exactly the problem is.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. Recognizing the need for creative investment structures in their Colorado market, they cofounded the Alternative Capital Summit , creating the first community of Flexible VCs and alternative startup investors. . —– Indie.vc

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Research your market. I know it’s obvious but I’m always surprised how many people just start building products without thinking enough about the market. DO NOT start with product, start with the market. It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. The decision is already made.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. This mix is not a good start when it comes to sales and marketing. Inbound marketing: Selling one-to-many.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

by Melissa Lincoln, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Leadspace. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to one of the world’s leading B2B technology markets. This fertile crescent of B2B technology is an unbeatable homebase for a growing technology product’s sales, marketing, and success teams.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The first phase, before they get to product market fit, is all about technology leadership; startups focus on their technical vision, building their products or services, getting customer feedback. It is easy to use a cookie-cutter job description; we need software engineers, here’s what a great software engineer looks like.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

Don: Team, idea, market. what stage do you get involved in? . Rick – I first see if I like the team, how are they going to start targeting the market they think they can address. A lot of VCs are playing the seed market now. screenshots, clickable demo, out in the market? Do all have to be present?

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

For early stage startups it maybe a challenge to recruit a dedicated sys admin, but any good hosting company would be happy to carry this function for you, likely, for additional payment. Conclusion Increasingly, the infrastructure for software startup is becoming less of a challenge. Startups!!! « de-Hao! [

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. Visualize a grid, with the standard entrepreneurial steps down the y-axis (ideation, market research, incorporation, etc.),

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Even if the technical cofounder doesnt prototype something first, they can still contribute more to the business and receive more equity (ex: someone who did marketing for 2 years out of undergrad manages to recruit a top 10th percentile programmer with a successful app in the iPhone app store).

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Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

It was a big change in how software and infrastructure was written. Existing software engineers and tech entrepreneurs needed to retool both their skills as well as their way thinking about how software should be set up and software business models. And it was a big change in business models.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers. Scale comes later.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Tiny, contracting market. Huge upfront software licensing fees. works with the massive market that is YouTube. Imagine you’re a highly-trained software engineer. Recruit college kids.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. SXSW Panel: Return on Inclusion: Investing in Diverse Startups Arlan ????

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Lessons to Learn By the time I joined Ardent I thought I was an experienced marketer, but I’ll never forget my first real lesson in what it meant to understand customers and product/market fit. For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry.

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