SVPG

JANUARY 11, 2016

The scenario is that you are probably a later stage startup or growth stage company. Let’s say you are at a young, growth stage company, and you decide to hire a senior leader, maybe the head of product, or the head of engineering, or head of marketing, from a brand name like Oracle. Here’s the problem.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. So I thought, “I am good!”

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Product Technical Review Marketing Lean 120

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2021

Startups face multiple risks, and hence it requires a highly efficient marketing staff and a strong development team. A software development company can either take your business to the top or bring it down to the bottom. The process of developing software is entirely different from that of an established business.

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Software Startup Hiring Salary 160

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Layoffs are unfortunately likely to continue as funding for later stage companies continues to contract. It suggests that organizations, and individuals, should focus on what they are truly passionate about, what they can be the best in the world at, and what drives their economic engine. And it’s only February.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Search 160

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. Make sure you keep track of whether thats happening.

San Francisco 74

San Francisco SCRUM Lean Continuous Deployment 74

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Where is it going? We now understand that’s wrong.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 235