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. It can be even harder to develop the skills needed to not just survive in a startup, but to thrive. But there is more to it than that. Startups are businesses.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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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. IT staffing, consulting and software development services. Daily email digest.

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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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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

6) Advise as if you were an employee. Personally, I take this from the vantage of an employee or consultant advising his or her superiors. Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Android Developer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer.

Portland 46

Portland Oregon Technical Cofounder Startup 46

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? He basically outsources everything. Sure Payroll is a good service.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You’ve increased the number of features as well as the number of developers working on them and it’s quite likely that not everyone knows everything anymore. In fact, you might even have a feature that no current employees understand.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You’ve increased the number of features as well as the number of developers working on them and it’s quite likely that not everyone knows everything anymore. In fact, you might even have a feature that no current employees understand.

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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. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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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. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

As a result, candidates ranged from self-taught college dropouts or associate’s degree holders to PhD holders, ACM winners, MIT/Harvard/Stanford/Caltech students, and Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google interns and employees with a lot of people in between.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? Unlike some larger, more mature organizations, most startups don't spend much time or effort helping grow their employees beyond the immediate needs of the startup.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I wasn’t a very good software developer, and I was only modestly capable as a UX designer, but I learned enough to recognize clean code and effective, inspiring design when I saw it. I learned that software engineers?—?or or developers?—?are customers, other employees, books, blogs, social media, news?—?and

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. I was making about half as much money as I did as a software developer, which wasn't great, but it was like, okay, this is all right.

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Founder Chicago Kansas Startup 80

blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

I assume both cofounders will be diluted equally as more employees and investors get involved. Self Promotion Hirelite is having its first web-based "speed interviewing" event on July 27th for companies and startups in NYC looking for software engineers. Why should a technical cofounder get so much of the company?

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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. 34 comments ↓ #1 Sean Tierney on 11.18.08

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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. So it can be done.

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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. 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. #2- Just looked at the paper I was reading. Photo Credit: Scott Harris. Photo Credit: Carl Potak.

Naming 86

Naming Software Review Entrepreneur Atlanta 86

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Risks vary based on whether you develop or purchase software. How likely is it that the software development will be delayed? These should all be accounted for in your project scope and development plan. When to build custom software in-house. By acquiring a business, you also acquire their employees.

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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.). This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you. Today, even developing countries have fast wired internet.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations.

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