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Lesson 1: My experience as an early stage startup employee

23 April,2014 by Poornima in Change the Ratio, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, My Experience, My Startup, Product Development, Startups One Comment

This is the first lesson in the series: Why Should You Consider being an Early Stage Startup Employee. This mini-course is from our monthly event series: Femgineer Forum, which was sponsored by nousDECOR in April 2014. By Poornima Vijayashanker If you think that being at an early stage startup employee means that you just work 100 hour weeks,…

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Startup Journey From Engineer to Founder, Lesson 2: Invest in Infrastructure

08 April,2014 by Poornima in Engineering, Entrepreneurship, My Startup, Software Architecture, Software Development, Software Principles & Practice, Startups 0 Comments

By Poornima Vijayashanker A little over 4 years ago I decided to transition from being a founding engineer to a founder. I knew that I could build a product and recruit a team, I had learned those skills at my first startup, Mint.com. But I was really curious to know what it was like to…

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Making Progress with Remote Work

03 September,2013 by Poornima in My Startup, Product Development, Recruiting, Startups 6 Comments

This post on remote work was inspired by the Startup Edition prompt, “How do you build a team?” When I started BizeeBee, I had one word in mind, freedom. More specifically, I wanted the freedom to be able to work from anywhere, and still make progress. However, having never built or run a remote team…

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