Tag: Startups
Episode 464: Rowland Savage on Getting Acquired
Rowland Savage, author of How to Stick the Landing: The M&A Handbook for Startups, discusses mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and why it’s so important for software engineering startups to know the details. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Savage about why a startup should always be thinking about being acquired, the ways to ensure that it […]
Episode 386: Spencer Dixon on Building Low Latency Applications with WebRTC
Spencer Dixon of Tuple discusses building a pair programming application using WebRTC. Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Spencer about what WebRTC is; its uses cases; resources for learning; its limitations; capturing video and audio from an OS; choosing a video codec; connecting clients by traversing NATs, challenges of working with WebRTC in a native application […]
Episode 373: Joel Spolsky on Startups: Growth, and Valuation
Joel Spolsky (“Joel on Software”), founder and CEO of Stack Overflow, discusses lessons of building successful software companies. Host Nate Black spoke with Joel about the venture funded “land grab” situations vs. “bootstrapping with profitability”. How do venture capitalists think and how can you make fundraising easier? What’s the strategy to keep as much ownership […]
SE-Radio Episode 258: Cody Voellinger on Recruiting Software Engineers
Robert Blumen talks with Cody Voellinger, the founder of a recruiting firm that specializes in filling software engineer roles for San Francisco-area startups, about how jobs are created and how companies and engineers get matched up. Their discussion covers the entire job search process, from job descriptions to salary negotiations. They look at the job […]
