VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2012

human engineering VC Cafe Photo credit: By imaginedhorizons (Flickr). Shockingly, only 15 percent is due to technical knowledge. ” Question: What is Human Engineering? 2) Manage your skills - building on self-awareness, focus on doing what you’re good at, but invest in developing the rest. Wikipedia ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Finance 320

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

No brand, no features, no customers, no money, no distribution, no search engine rankings, no efficient advertising, no incredible executive team, no NPS, no strategy. You always had a staging area to test things in a real server environment before pushing code live. How do the successful startups rise above all that?

Software Review 133

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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. For phone interviews I recommend websites such as Collabedit to let you watch candidates code in real time. Keep candidates engaged.

Engineer 138

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Intellectual Property 219

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost.

Technical Review 170

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2021

What happens if a prospective client finds numerous poor reviews? What will he or she do if he stumbles upon a discouraging article that appears at the top of the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs)? Of course, negative content that ranks prominently in search engines plays a major role. Online review management.

Reputation 152

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles. They will manage the steps necessary to identify, select, and integrate your software and IT vendors, including third party product dependencies, email, network, wiki, intranet, project management, and telecommunications.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Solve the rest later. More often than not, whatever it is you are building will require a complementary skill set, whether that’s business/finance, sales/marketing, or design/engineering. It took Alex a long time to find an engineer to partner with without the network gained from working at a startup first.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

The software development landscape has changed a lot in that time, but time-honored principles remain so. Here’s my take on an updated Joel Test for 2017, based on my career experience and how we build software at VidiGuard. Do you fix bugs before writing new code? Do new candidates write code during their interview?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did).

Software Review 141

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 141

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2014

This way, you save what you would have invested on training and still get a highly skilled set of employees who are aware of the technology and also can train the rest of the staff when needed. This gives you the chance to read reviews, forums and user experiences that tell the true story of a product or technology’s usefulness in a business.

Technical Review 277

Technical Review Small Business Technology Software Review 277

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Entrepreneur 283

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

These policy memos were reviewed by Tarun Chhabra, the Senior Director for Technology and National Security at the National Security Council.). Then, students began rapidly building minimal viable solutions (policy, software, hardware …) as a way to test and validate their understanding of both the problem and what it would take to solve it.

Technical Review 353

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Product Development 177

Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Intellectual Property 309

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Positive experiences create emotional value, which keeps customers coming back and makes small businesses stand out from the rest. 6- Datafication Photo Credit: Edward Mellett Datafication, in my perspective, is the transformation of everything in our lives into data-powered devices or software. Thanks to Jaden Oh, TRAFFV ! #6-

Artificial Inteligence 121

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mastering SEO in the Age of AI written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Stephan Spencer, an acclaimed SEO expert and founder of net Concepts, an interactive agency specializing in search engine optimization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Demos have become our design reviews.” The conversation around this sketch provides enough directional insight for the rest of the team to voice any concerns, to begin the estimation process and to start coding. Given that we push code live every two weeks, these demos have become our design reviews.

Lean 165

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Multiple review requests. We frequently got pinged to write a review from multiple apps. We presume that, had we written a review, it would’ve ended up in different places on the store. Reviews should be requested from one source, with one touchpoint, and posted to one place on the store. What isn’t. Cart abandonments.

Campaign 123

Campaign eCommerce Email Software Review 123

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that their are independent software companies now focused on this like UserVoice and Get Satisfaction. Many people at a young startup are trying to manage their finances like the rest of their user base. He took input from product management on what to build but in the daily coding he had to make many decisions on his own.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So if you are outside the U.S. we are not going to invest. That is a personality type.

Technical Review 288

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2016

For instance, the software used to create 3D models and the materials used to create a physical object using the machine. However, they cannot be used to print end products due to their sensitivity to UV light. Like the rest, Heat Resistant Plastic is also sensitive to UV light and cannot be used to create end products.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Then you’re free to spend the rest of the day however you want. If I finished the three most important things I needed to do, and it was only two o’clock in the afternoon, I felt that I earned the right to choose how to spend the rest of my day. For my second novel, I hired someone to research Amazon’s top reviewers for me.

Technical Review 195

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. When a developer wants to check-in code, this is a very scary moment.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

I’ve always thought that the more hours or I put in the more work I’d achieve but I realize now that the most effective way to get the best results is by making sure that you aren’t too stressed and overworked, and how much a rested mind and body contribute to a more positive mindset. 7- More focus on online engagement.

Entrepreneur 121

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 31, 2013

We review how these events changed us and changed the direction we took during the year. We also … Read the rest of this entry » The post Reflections On 2013, What Walter Discovered About Starting A Business After Listening To Podcast Interviews, And Our Plans For 2014 appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

Software Review 90

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Should You Build or Buy Your Micro-ISV? A few months ago I received a review copy of Debugging Your Information Technology Career: A Compass to New and Rewarding Fields that Value Computer Knowledge.

Technical Review 27

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OnlyOnce

JULY 1, 2014

Like Remote which I reviewed a few weeks ago, Joy, Inc. Also like Remote , the book was written by the founder and CEO of a relatively small firm that is predominately software engineers, so there are some limitations to its specific lessons unless you adapt them to your own environment.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Engineering Restful Engineer 74

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Entrepreneur 120

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2023

Data input and customer service are two examples of routine operations that could benefit from the use of automation software. To further improve firms' adaptability and productivity, cloud-based software can facilitate remote work and communication. Thanks to Jamie Miller, Treadmill Review ! #4-

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology Entrepreneur 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

In an eCommerce or Internet Services business it is often the marketing costs (if purchased online) and in an enterprise software company it is often marketing plus enterprise sales reps. Enterprise software companies also should measure CAC even though it, too, is an imprecise science. This is how much you spend to get a new customer.

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Metrics Cost Acquisition Startup 150

blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. As a result, the people doing initial resume filtering are not engineers. Enter recruiters or HR people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Each specialist takes up his part of the spec (UI, middleware, backend) and cranks out code. The VP Engineering spends all of his time trying to make sure the programmers understand and implement the spec. Frustration is mounting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Now, audits may vary depending on your business and industry, but generally, I recommend including the following areas within your report: Comprehensive Website Review. Editorial content review. Social profile review. Google My Business review. Directory and citation review. Online reputation review.

Software Review 66

Software Review Technical Review SEO Reputation 66

Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world.

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