rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders. Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. HBS Startup Tribe. The Grand-daddy. MIT Start Lab. Harvard iLab.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I was between my 7th and 8th and final startup; licking my wounds from Rocket Science, the company I had cratered as my first and last attempt as a startup CEO. I was consulting for the two venture capital firms who between them put $12 million into my last failed startup. (My It was a long way from Ellis Island.)

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Hard skills such as data analytics are essential to being successful as a product manager, but equally-valued are soft skills such as communication, collaboration and leadership. so that the talent, the designers, engineers, analysts and data scientists, can focus on their core work. Creativity is also a must for product managers.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I received a great question via LinkedIn: I'm the founding engineer and working hard to launch my startup. I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost?

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Unintended Consequences – Video Editing As these boards are flying out the door, one of the software engineers at SuperMac got to thinking about what did you do with video once you did get it into a computer – so he wrote the first Quicktime-based video editor which we called ReelTime. Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

She and her team had worked hard to convince their leadership that sponsoring the Capital Factory Lounge would be a good step in shifting the Walmart culture towards becoming more innovative. Farouk is an Account Executive at Connected, where he partners with clients to drive business value through software engineering.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

As part of the Lightspeed Venture Partner Summer Fellowship program, I ask guest speakers to come in each week and talk to the Fellows about key topics related to building a successful startup. The following seeks to capture the essence of his conversation with this year’s Fellows: What is Leadership? I would follow him in a heartbeat.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) 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.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

First, a friend announced that they were moving their startup geo-lo based company from L.A. Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. I could go on, but the combination above is plenty for a startup tipping point. Again, New York blows California away here. (3)

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Bostinnovation : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. HBS Startup Tribe. MassChallenge - Startup competition and accelerator.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. Also lot’s of fake, wanna be CTOs here. (So This imbalance keeps L.A. Big boy applications.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Most of our posts on the crowdSPRING Blog focus on managing businesses and startups; we often write about best practices, and offer plenty of practical tips for managers. John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. ” ~ Samuel Gompers . Thanks, guys! Thanks, Chris!

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 2011

275,000 software engineers work together on this platform to deliver results to client companies world-wide. Every project started on the site is assigned a project manager who coordinates teams of engineers to deliver software created to the buyers requirements. Good for them. Photo: Paul Hocksenar.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

We write often about small businesses and startups and lean approaches to marketing and other business functions.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

More recently, Eric Ries and Dave McClure added fuel to the fire (See Eric Ries’ blog post: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet) and helped kick off a campaign on @ 2Gov. 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.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

A director at OSI, a C-level exec at a hot open source startup and an activist in the software freedom movement, expect the unexpected, the fascinating and the infuriating. It led to software applications that by default were complex, brittle and heavy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

What was it like to tell them, "Hey, we're putting our whole startup on hold and we're just going to do nothing but COVID relief now." Eric Ries : Did you have any pushback from your investors or anyone else on your team or in your extended ecosystem? Alpha Lee : They have been overwhelmingly supportive.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

We do like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Coca-Cola Plans to Help Startups Around the World – crowdspring.co/159Mot0. Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/12gwMCO.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Mass TLC Unconference : Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. HBS Startup Tribe. Intelligent.ly - Classes on startups and tech run by practitioners.

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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. As the former CEO of an Israeli startup with a (modest) US and UK presence, this is an obvious way to create more jobs here.

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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? Gathering feature requests from customers is not what marketing should be doing in a startup. Are you out of your !? *x! No, not really.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. First Round has been an incredible partner in our journey from startup to public company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 29, 2020

20:09) How Radu knew the site had hit product-market fit (22:07) Radu talks about the three times he's hit product-market fit with startups (23:09) Radu on making the first cinemagraph-making app in the app store. (24:44) 29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23)

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

I think that there is just quite a lot to figure out and we are getting ready to launch a podcast next week called Onward On-Air and Jim Fallows, a reporter for the Atlantic was on and one of the things he kept emphasizing is at a leadership level we need to provide empathy, hope and a plan. Eric Ries : So let me get this right.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2014

We do like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Small Business and Startups: How Do I Thank You? Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/1pIoZb3. I hope you enjoy!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Heather is an outspoken advocate for women in tech leadership roles and building an inclusive and diverse workforce. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Say you are a leading email marketing software. Acquiring them as a startup allows your company to capture market share at an attractive price. The company’s software could have significant market share or product differentiation that would be difficult to replicate. This competitor has an overlapping audience.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Unfortunately, it's going to take leadership and bi-partisan cooperation to push them through, and it's not clear where that leadership is going to come from. In thinking through our investment choices, we should keep asking ourselves, if they had a massive shortage of software engineers, What Would China Do?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry. He continued yelling, “We have a technical team assembled in this room that has more knowledge of scientific customers and scientific computers than any other startup has ever had.

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