Showing posts with label startups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label startups. Show all posts
Monday, July 16, 2018

Review: Bad Blood - Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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I will confess that I never did follow the Theranos story very carefully. Unlike many others, I've never had a fear of blood tests, nor ...
Monday, October 06, 2014

Gaming the Coding Interview

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Paul Graham's essay on how you can't really game startups had me thinking about the coding interview. Google had a lot of studies s...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Review: Gobble Dinner Service

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In the past, there's  been plenty of food startups, from kitchit to gastronauts . None of them have addressed what I consider the best ...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Startup Engineering Management Gets a 2nd Edition

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Startup Engineering Management has been doing so well that I added what I learned over the last few years to it and gave it a 2nd Edition. ...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Introducing Jemstep

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After I met with the founder of Jemstep , I realized that his product was not for me, but a large group (probably even the majority) of Amer...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Wharton Business School Presentation

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How to hire and keep engineers happy public from Piaw Na I was the lunch speaker today at the Wharton Business School in San Francis...
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Friday, February 08, 2013

Startup Engineering Management visits Wharton School of Business in San Francisco

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Did you know that Wharton School of Business had a San Francisco Branch ? I didn't, until James Kilpatrick, affiliated with their entrep...
Sunday, January 06, 2013

My New Job

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When I announced my retirement almost 3 years ago, I got three reactions: "I can't imagine staying home to feed the cats and wat...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Bloomreach Talk

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I was invited by Bloomreach to give a variation of my talk on Startup Engineering Management . The talk was held in confidence, but afte...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Wealthfront's Startup Equity Calculator

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Wealthfront has a great startup equity calculator post on their blog that's worth reading for every engineer who intends to work at a ...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Market Efficiency

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Most companies understand not to cheap out on machines for engineers. The cost of a top end development machine is about $5,000, and when yo...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

An Inflated Sense of Risk

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I was at the Berkeley alumni panel organized by Dan Wallach a week or so back, and was very fortunate to be seated next to Jon Blow when s...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Don't Blame The Engineer

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I was talking to someone at a big company recently, and we talked about their retention problem. The person said something to the effect tha...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Choosing between jobs

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One question that occasionally comes up at the end of a Negotiation cycle is, "Ok, now I have all these offers, how do I choose?"...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

AirBnB's delightful offices

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I'd been a big fan of AirBnB ever since I met one of their founders at the Sunfire offices, but I had never visited the office, so when ...
Friday, December 09, 2011

Starting Up While Employed

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Someone recently asked me for advice on working on a startup while he was still employed at a large tech company. My first response was to p...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Product Endorsement: Wealthfront

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Andy Rachleff gave XiaoQin and I a presentation four weeks ago on their latest wealth management product, and just lifted the embargo on me ...
Monday, October 03, 2011

Scalability

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I've been helping various startups, and one of the things that's impressing me is how frequently these startups are launched on new ...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Execution Strategy and Business Strategy

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Rebecca Frankel shared on her Google Reader Feed this image: I think it's a great example of execution strategy. A frequently used ex...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Location Still Matters

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This year's been interesting as I got invited to several startups either to talk or to give advice. Usually, I try to mix it with anothe...
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