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Leadership is More Than a Memo

Steve Blank

While Silicon Valley has grown to have global influence, in many ways the cultural leadership from the venture community has dramatically shrunk in the last decade. Among other things the book reminded me how important leadership is in setting startup culture – both consciously and implicitly. And back then they were all men.)

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. It’s written for a business leader, not an engineer. Pragmatic Assessment : An in-depth evaluation by working engineers who understand what it takes to deliver in different development situations. What does a business leader do in this situation?

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Leadership Failure! What Will It Cost You?

YoungUpstarts

by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “ Expect Leadership “ Mediocre Mike was a card shark. So what does any of this have to do with leadership failure? You wouldn’t need to be a member of Mensa to calculate the cost to his company of Mediocre Mike’s leadership failure. He lived for the weekends.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. So to everyone at WP Engine, let me repeat the message from one year ago: Look what we did ! Period, full-stop.

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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. And she has not only been instrumental to Shippo, but also an extremely valuable resource to other engineering leaders in the Version One family. Functional quality. Defects are cheapest to address when found early.

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6 Keys To Transforming Yourself Into A Startup Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Most people I know in business begin by capitalizing on technical strength or passion for change , such as engineering, or focus on saving the environment. Luckily, you can learn needed leadership skills. Of course, you can always ride on someone’s coattail, and let them do the leadership, while you do the hard work in the shadows.

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Getting Engineers into the Lean Startup Cycle

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan On August 20, Eric will sit down with developer and Hut8Labs co-founder Dan Milstein for a webcast you can join to discuss “Getting Engineers Into the Lean Startup Cycle.” This conversation will be a great opportunity for engineers and engineering managers to learn more about implementing Lean Startup ideas.

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