David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. Engineers, product managers, and platform managers building tech solutions for private market investing. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi! who use tech solutions in their day-to-day process.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. It’s hard to find good engineering talent right now, and if you’ve found somebody who knows what they’re doing they probably know others.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

The work history, clients, portfolio and reviews are gone, just like that? For instance, an unscreened software contractor might go Missing in Action or write unusable code. Therefore, startups are best advised not to tie their fate to third-party businesses. Too big to fail.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. office, right in the heart of MIT.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Today we’re excited to share the official launch of Replay , a browser that records all of the context that developers and engineers need to fix bugs faster. The need for Replay is pretty obvious; every developer/engineer spends countless hours debugging their code. But now, when an engineer gets stuck, they can share a replay.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Addepar and PEVCTech invite you to a dinner and presentation on “Tracking, Analyzing, and Reducing Risk When Investing in a Diverse Portfolio of Illiquid Assets.” Our friends at Addepar will share insight into how their platform can be used to analyze collections of alternatives portfolios at huge scale.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 11, 2018

Time and time again, I hear how hard of a time startups are having recruiting, especially for software developers. The other day, I was in a board meeting and we were talking about the need for a software engineer. When I was a startup founder, I had this same issue. The team already had a lead on board.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Our friends at Addepar will share insight into how their platform can be used to analyze collections of alternatives portfolios at huge scale. The speaker is Ben Cohen , Software Engineering Lead, Addepar. This presentation will be technical in nature, and geared towards those with an engineering background.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Product and Engineering. 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. First Round Capital. The Review. Plusstartup. The Review.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

If a software engineer, we will call him “Neo”, is needed on a project, then IT is asked if Neo can be assigned to the project. The company decided there was enough work to justify hiring Neo, our software engineer. Money is not needed to save the world.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Software Testing. Behance is Adobe’s portfolio website so it’s easy to miss this opportunity.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

Co-founders Rami, Benny, and Gil - who previously built virtualization software company Ravello together (acquired by Oracle in 2016) - set out with the vision of bringing the same workflows and speed of release associated with DevOps into business application configurations. Enter Salto.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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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. Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation. Image by Getty Images via @daylife).

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thebarefootvc

MAY 20, 2019

While Microsoft continues to work with the ethereum blockchain for other projects, I found it telling that they chose to use the more proven bitcoin blockchain for such a key implementation. ” On the crypto side, Binance resumed trading services after its $40M hack.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

For many startups, this was the secret to massive success : David Quail is a super talented software engineer, with one exit already under his belt. In short, you can act, look, and smell like a fully automated online company that employs a posse of software developers and an in-house graphic designer.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. 20% initial ownership.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 28, 2019

Building a robotic harvesting machines that can pick fruits and vegetables as well as a human is no trivial task and is a feat of systems engineering. Although Traptic can rely on existing robot arms, cameras, and computers, putting the whole system together and making it work smoothly is a complex engineering problem.

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Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

Think of it this way: If all your software engineers are Stanford computer science majors, they’ve all taken classes from the same professors, completed the same problem sets, and been trained to think in much the same ways. Strong performers come in all stripes and don’t share common backgrounds.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company). Insight Squared – SMB Business Intelligence (NextView Portfolio Company). Raizlabs – Mobile Development.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Would you mind sharing them? Order Here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

Mid- to large-size companies can also benefit from the lean methodology and one way to do so is by actively leveraging crowds of workers: designers , software engineers , testers , writers , customer support people , customers, market researchers , and dozens of other groups via the Internet. This 10-year project invites consumers.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

Companies like Yammer are doing social enterprise – taking enterpise software and leveraging the users. What else do VCs provide besides cash? We have a startup in Mexico city and being surrounded by the ecosystem. Would it be a good idea to come to Silicon Valley even if our market is in Mexico? Should I move to Silicon Valley? .

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Most of our portfolio companies are hiring too, so I won’t single any particular one out: 30 To Follow (Being edited on the fly, so not exactly 30 anymore). Hack/Reduce – Big Data Hackspace. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Ruby specialists.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) These companies don’t have search engineers on staff.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) These companies don’t have search engineers on staff.

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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.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

with the portfolio to show for it. And then Rafa Pereira, our Director of Software Engineering, really pushed us to embrace OKRs three quarters ago. John Doerr credits it as the main practice that has made Google so successful since near the beginning, as well as many of his Kleiner Perkins’s other portfolio companies.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios. These elements of my previous corporate career have been crucial in my attempts to reverse engineer an existing industry by simply adding an element of human interaction to a seemingly saturated (online dating) market. Image Credit: Janet Wu.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups. The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Letting the system choose the output at the same URL can ban your website from search engines. Portfolios. Tossing Out Pages And Content Blocks.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. During that time, I did one three month long internship — actually it was closer to 2 months, but it used up three months of my 12 month F-1 OPT window.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. The blog software thinks Im spam, so if you want to find us, go to "build a sandcastle dot com" Sherlie Matthews (2010-06-19) # I need desperate help in revamping my website, self-built many years ago with Dreamweaver. THANK YOU for your LOGICAL advice.

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