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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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A Guide: Successfully Hiring Code Bootcamp Grads

For Entrepreneurs

Rob is the co-founder of Salsify, a leading cloud-based product content management and syndication solution that I invested in in 2013 and where I currently serve on the board. Prior to founding Salsify, Rob was at IBM, Endeca and Cambridge Semantics in senior product management roles.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology - Part II

semanticuniverse.com

Web technologies are no different; the syndication formats RSS and Atom were the subject of a bitter format war starting around the year 2000. The Semantic Web standards - RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, and SKOS are new technologies whose proponents hope will be adopted on a wide scale. But for adoption, simplicity usually dominates.

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Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

That book, the Practice of Management, had a lot to do with forming my thinking. The Practice of Management is probably one of the fundamental reasons that I’m in the career that I am in today. There’s no strategic method — You can say there’s a strategic methodology behind it depending, again it is semantics.

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Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform?

Both Sides of the Table

DataSift was never built on a single platform and never desired or expected to be Twitter’s re-syndication provider as its sole business. Never mind that Twitter in writing specifically asked us to build this re-syndication product with them and that every step of the way encouraged us to build out the service. billion people.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The magazine’s “Central Banker Report Card,” which has been published annually since 1994, grades Central Bank governors of 30 key countries, and the ECB, according to an “A” to “F” scale for their performance and success in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management.