Founder Operations Silicon Valley Software Engineering 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. As a result we have a large number of locally employed engineers with video experience that will fuel the next boom of the Internet (Americans watch 5.3 and are guiding LA 2.0.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money. “Oh Would you mind sharing them?
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Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. And, of course, Adobe said, “Oh, by the way, you don’t mind if the software engineer comes with us, do you?” Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.
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. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here.
Rob Go
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Boston Hardware Startup Meetup – Meetup organized by the founders of BOLT.
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.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? Customer Development is about testing the founder’s hypothesis about what constitutes product/market fit with the minimum feature set.
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