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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.”

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. Kayserian sees what he calls “angel developing&# as a way for entrepreneurs to accomplish the same end — a product — without giving up control of their companies in the process. .

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How to find a good programmer or web developer

www.peterdrew.net

Peter Drew Internet Marketing Tools Online Blog Home Recieve an Email for Each New Post Here Contact Peter Drew You are here: Home / Internet Marketing / How to find a good programmer or web developer How to find a good programmer or web developer October 1, 2007 By Peter Drew Leave a Comment 1. Protect your asset.

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Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First

This is going to be BIG.

He thinks about how he can offer solutions, not create more problems like RSS readers did. Good design is winning all over the web--at sites like Mint, Twitter,and Quora. Remember the joke on Office Space where you can’t have the engineers talking to the customers? This is where product and design leads come into play.

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

mashable.com

Engineering, physics and computer science majors were the most likely to start a company, while nursing, administration and social work majors were the least likely. Education is a strong indicator of your likelihood to start a company. Pretty terrible.

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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

mashable.com

For a while, everyone was hailing Penguin as putting a stop to over-optimization, which while true, caused a lot of people to adjust their website so heavily that it wasn’t even optimized at all. That’s how search engines know what your site is about. RSS Feed 591,322+ Subscribers. That boiled down to keywords. That’s spam.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

These investments include Kaggle, a startup that compels engineers to compete against each other in order to solve “hard problems,” and Continuuity, Parse, Pushd and Citus Data. The partners are currently in the middle of successfully raising their second fund. Follow @TechCrunch. 2011 Holiday. Gift Guide. Crunchboard.