Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I was a consultant and ethnographer, another teammate was a market researcher, and two others had the software engineering skills to build what the market needed. In the first 4 weeks, our team got out of the building and spoke with employees at 42 different companies. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. The goal of the Boston Startup School is to take people interested in working in startups and give them the skills they need to be good employees. O’Hearn said.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Building a well-organized team of competent and dedicated employees is critical for the life of your startup. Scaling can mean many things, from acquiring new employees to increasing the marketing budget. More sales is an indicator of scaling as well. Let’s talk about scaling first. Scaling drives a startup’s growth.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. 1 – Medical Device Sales. As a sales representative I noticed that the promotional efforts for Plastic Surgeons were held by a few large firms that overcharged.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Parades are held, speeches are given, and workers across the country take an extra day’s rest from their labors to picnic, play with their kids, and (often) shop the sales that businesses love to offer on the last official day of summer. John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met.

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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). But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Dedication: At a typical organization, dedication of its employees is important. Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. Immediately. 2) Hiring Inexperience.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Names can be classified on a continuum based on how they communicate to consumers, says Nina Beckhardt, president of The Naming Group , an agency whose employees have crafted names for Walmart, Target and Puma. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. Does It Mean Something? Its Not Just Facebook: MySpace Trans.

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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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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Certainly not to say they couldnt have raised more cash and built this in to a bigger company, but was nice to have the option of going either way and doing what was right for the founders and employees. Finally, Ilya Ronin, shared the Marpo Kinetics story, a true bootstrapped garage start-up.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Having founded active campaign as a means to fund his education, Jason pursued a degree in fine arts until shifting his focus entirely to growing the company and his self-taught software engineer and technologist. So Jason, welcome back to the show.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

But as a company starts to see growth and needs to hire sales, marketing, support and other functions, scaling to hundreds or thousands of people, technology vision needs to be augmented with leaders who can build high-functioning teams. Strong leaders try to achieve something great and incredibly challenging, and they inspire others.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I learned that software engineers?—?or customers, other employees, books, blogs, social media, news?—?and Galyen cautions that many PMs get stuck inside what he calls “four walls.” or developers?—?are are just as much artists as they are scientists. Once you get the job, know that the hard work has just begun.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

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. I was their first full-time engineering hire and I helped build out the team and set the agenda for product development. I was wrong.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

Sales and Marketing. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. These platforms provide employers with an advantage in terms of hiring and managing employees, while ensuring that all payments due are transparent, accurate, and on time. Teaching and Tutoring. Freelance Writing and Copywriting. Creative Design. Graphic Designing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But that's just part of the rejection of doing sales. Now that's, it's a little bit misleading in the sense that the investment, I could write the software myself because I got a software engineering degree from mit. John Jantsch (06:05): Yeah, yeah. So in some sense that was the investment, right?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Wayfair - $350M + revenue, 300 employees. Just hired Yahoo’s VP Media Sales. Hack/Reduce – Big Data Hackspace. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

5 Ways To Help Employees You’re About To Lay Off | Fast Company – crowdspring.co/159KAQE. How to Motivate Employees in Less Than 5 Minutes – crowdspring.co/1CzhuZY. Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/12gwMCO. How to Show Employees Love (Even if it Makes Them Feel Awkward) – crowdspring.co/1CzgUvd.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Putting aside the questions of when you should find a technical person or whether that technical person should be a cofounder or an employee, today Im going to focus on the question that Elizabeth and I hear over and over (and over) again: How do I find a technical cofounder?? Those are the ppl who wanted to be co-founders not employees).

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

I assume both cofounders will be diluted equally as more employees and investors get involved. Domain specific experience within the target market are helpful as are more broad experiences in sales, marketing, product development, or business development (probably on the order of 5+ years outside of undergrad, grad, or MBA school). [4]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Little Indians and Big Indians At MIPS Computers , my second semiconductor company, I was the VP of Marketing and defacto head of Sales. As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. Are you out of your !? *x!

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing → The Software Product Myth Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. 21 Go with Reasons 2 and 6 | nPost Blog on 12.05.08

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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. For your employees?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. The three of us had the exact opposite mentality and created a company that prioritizes employee and client retention. Thanks to Emily Mazza, Mazza Virtual Assistants ! #7-

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 2, 2013

Another thing they have in common: I find most high-tech startup founders are software engineers enamored with the idea of waking late, sidling up to a coffeeshop table, pecking away at an IDE, getting into the zone for hours at a stretch, and doing what they love – coding something of their own invention.

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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. I went to the Columbia Engineering Career Fair in October 2009 and left with ~150 resumes. Doubtful we’d have access to such a rich employee pool any other way. Date for a bit, then split the equity.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The night I decided to start the company, my wife and I were having dinner with the man who would be our first employee and our creative director for the first twelve years. Since launching, our brand name has been one of the elements that prospects have referenced time and again in sales calls. Photo Credit: Scott Harris.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Ensure enough resources are dedicated to the teams in charge of bringing your software to life. The benefits of your software should compound over time. For instance, you might build a tool for sales reps that reduces the time it takes to conduct high-impact activities. By acquiring a business, you also acquire their employees.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry. I was mortified with the dressing down in front of my friends as well as new employees I barely knew. I was about to get an education that would last a lifetime. Later my friends told me my face went pale.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Want To Close More Sales? Building Trust In Client Relationships And The Power Of Saying “I Don’t Know” | Search Engine Journal – crowdspring.co/1CVzygR. Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/1pIoZb3. Hackers Send Emails to Sony Employees – crowdspring.co/1w2Zy4W. I hope you enjoy! 1we041e.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Sales is more difficult and more important that you think, if you build it they wont just come.

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