Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way. Focus on launching.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. I have always tried to be a consistent advocate for rapid iterations, fact-based decision making, free software, and values-centric organizations. Blew my mind.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Product: The Funded. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, California. Director, Cloud Infrastructure & Operations Turn Security Solutions Architect Turn Software Engineer, Data Turn Web Developer HelloFax Princ Mobile Software Engineer Advertising.com. View this document on Scribd.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

One of the topics that raised heated debate was whether I had conflated technical design with product design , because I made the admittedly counter-intuitive claim that sometimes good technical design actually leads to increased technical debt. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

It’s an age-old scenario: You’re building a company, you have a product idea, and you’ve got the framework laid out in your head, but you want some expert advice and guidance on how to take the next steps. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, California. Upcoming Events. Disrupt SF 2012. Gift Guide.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Maybe operations has changed the OS configuration in production in a way that is incompatible with some developers change. In many traditional software organizations, branches can be extremely long-lived, and integrations can take weeks or months. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. and also taking care of side effects.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Then Bright’s 15 data scientists and engineers looked at those results, as well as other activity on the site, to create a generalized scoring algorithm. At the same time, Goodman says he wants Bright to go broader than its own website, possibly by partnering with other hiring products like Taleo and Jobvite. San Francisco, CA.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. Now, if the communication can be smoothed, the entire process will become a great deal more productive. Toward that end, they have created two products.

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The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

Both my parents and my sister are software engineers … I actually have female co-founders in my companies – an amazing developer & manager Agata (also included in that Top 100 list) and Socha, an architect-turned-designer. That’s the best thing you can do to yourself to stay productive. This helps me relax.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

be the manager and product developer). Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering. Designer – Good design can make or break a product so make sure you have someone who can think about and drive all design aspects of your business – from brand/logos, the appearance of the product and marketing materials.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Simply put, the return on investment on your product or service is LTV minus CAC. LTV ­ CAC = ROI. CAC is tricky.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Always productive and efficient, John gets things done in a way that doesn’t call attention to himself, but rather to the work product itself. Thanks, guys! Thanks, John! Plus he likes Legos. Thanks, Chris!

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

I’m in San Francisco, attending the Google I/O , Google’s flagship developer conference. how does an investor view a company that the product was built by an outsourced team? The VC Panel at Google I/O: Don Dodge, Rich Miner, Kevin Rose, Naval Ravikant. What else do VCs provide besides cash? Development for equity.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

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. Technical founders, or founders who are capable of building their own product, with at least one founder who is capable of leading and building the team.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

And making sales early on when a product is not nearly what it will be one day is especially hard. My team and I have created Happster, the first product created to take employee happiness to new heights through positive psychology. 11 – US Army Classified as a Computer Engineer. Thanks to Lori Cheek, Cheekd !

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

It recognizes that forces that create chaos and confusion also upend deeply rooted habits and patterns of behavior — the status quo – that often block potential innovations and more productive ways of living. It had a fancier-sounding title: Product Manager. I wasn’t exactly sure what this software would do yet.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

I hardly changed anything below, but I did make sure the grammar and links were corrected: Two days ago I had the honor of keynoting at the First Round Capital CEO Summit in San Francisco. And I am the product of many mentors, and I have found that if you reach out to people fearlessly they will often respond to help you.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Uh, so I literally had to walk the entire city of Chicago and the entire city of San Francisco and pick up every single menu. 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. Before I sold anyone.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. Eclipse has been emulating Visual Studio for years now. How about ABAPer?

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As Luke Wroblewski states in his book Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks , every form exists for one of three main reasons: commerce, community or productivity. From what I have seen in conferences where Amazon engineers gave talks, they seriously test *everything* on their UX/UI. Pixel Productions Inc.

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