Yelp.com is a crowdsourced review platform focused on restaurants and local businesses. Originally created as an email-based recommendation service, Yelp re-launched in its modern form in 2005. At the time, its focus on user-created reviews and social interactions was fairly novel, and made it stand out from competitors such as Angie’s List and CitySearch. Since The post Yelp Early Days with Michael Stoppelman appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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Yelp Early Days with Michael Stoppelman

For startups that are still seeking product/market fit, pre-seed investments are critical to funding initial investments in the product and in the infrastructure needed to scale. Afore Capital is a pre-seed fund that invests in innovative companies across a wide variety of verticals. Afore focuses on startups with unique product insights and novel distribution approaches. The post Pre Seed Investing with Gaurav Afore appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Pre Seed Investing with Gaurav Afore

Large technology companies are a new type of industry. Their power and reach is resistant to a comparison of previous generations, such as big oil. Alex Kantrowitz is a journalist who has covered big technology for much of his career, and he currently runs Big Technology, a newsletter and podcast about the biggest technology companies The post Big Tech with Alex Kantrowitz appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Big Tech with Alex Kantrowitz

Happy holidays. I want to thank everyone who continues to support the show through your listenership. Since we are on holiday from regularly scheduled content, I am taking this opportunity to share with you something I have been working on personally for the last two years: a musical album. Some of you don’t know I The post Simulation (Album) appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Simulation (Album)

Originally published April 7, 2017 Engineers in Silicon Valley see a world of constant progress. Our work is creative and intellectually challenging. We are building the future and getting compensated quite well for it. But what if we are actually achieving far less than what is possible? What if, after so many years of high The post Complacency with Tyler Cowen (Repeat) appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Complacency with Tyler Cowen (Repeat)

Originally published August 28, 2019 Kent Beck is a legendary figure in the world of software engineering.  Kent was an early advocate of Test-Driven Development (TDD), and popularized the idea of writing unit tests before writing code that would satisfy those unit tests. A unit test isolates and tests a small piece of functionality within The post Facebook Engineering Process with Kent Beck (Repeat) appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Facebook Engineering Process with Kent Beck (Repeat)

Originally published May 14, 2018 The Kubernetes ecosystem consists of enterprises, vendors, open source projects, and individual engineers. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation was created to balance the interests of all the different groups within the cloud native community. CNCF has similarities to the Linux Foundation and the Apache Foundation. CNCF helps to guide open The post Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Chris Aniszczyk and Dan Kohn Holiday Repeat appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Chris Aniszczyk and Dan Kohn Holiday Repeat

DevOps practices are shared via community, and community manifests at conferences. Unfortunately, conferences are not possible right now due to COVID-19. The world has turned to virtual conferences. All Day DevOps is a 24 hour conference sharing learnings and software strategies around DevOps, starting November 12th. Derek Weeks and Mark Miller are organizers of the The post DevOps Community with Derek Weeks and Mark Miller appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

DevOps Community with Derek Weeks and Mark Miller

Staff engineer is a job title that suggests the engineer has deep expertise, and considerable experience. More and more companies are adopting a “staff engineer track” where an engineer can work to become a staff engineer. What is the role of staff engineer? Is it a management role or an individual contributor? What are the The post Staff Engineering with Will Larson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Staff Engineering with Will Larson

Developer tooling and infrastructure is a fruitful area for investing. A wide variety of technologies can have large investment outcomes based on the fact that there are lots of engineers and businesses are willing to pay for products that give those engineers a higher degree of leverage. Lee Edwards is a partner with Root Ventures. The post Developer Investing with Lee Edwards appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Developer Investing with Lee Edwards

Investing in enterprise software has become a competitive business. Lots of venture capital firms compete for the good deals at every stage. This level of competition has driven more capital into the early stages.  Ed Sim is a partner with Boldstart, an early stage enterprise investment firm. He joins the show to talk about modern The post Enterprise Investing with Ed Sim appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Enterprise Investing with Ed Sim

After working at VMware for 10 years, Jerry Chen developed an expertise in technology companies. Today, he works at Greylock, where he looks at deals in the infrastructure and developer tooling space. Jerry is an expert in go-to-market strategy and makes investments in technologies that have a good chance at becoming large and profitable businesses. The post Modern Venture with Jerry Chen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Modern Venture with Jerry Chen

As software permeates our lives, there are an increased number of situations where the legal system must be designed to account for that software. Whether the issues are open source licensing, cryptocurrencies, or worker classifications, software overlaps heavily with the law. Just as software is crafted by engineers, the legal structure around software is crafted The post Software and the Law with Mark Radcliffe appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Software and the Law with Mark Radcliffe

The US Army Cyber School is a training program which trains cyber soldiers and leaders to be adept in cyber military strategy and tactics. In order to teach these skills, the cyber school uses a system they call “courseware as code”, a workflow that allows updates to the curriculum in a reversion-friendly fashion similar to The post Gitlab Courseware as Code with Ben Allison appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Gitlab Courseware as Code with Ben Allison

Acquisitions are part of the technology industry. A successful corporation will often have an “exit”, either going public or becoming acquired. And with each of these corporations, there is a set of stories that narrate the company from beginning to end.  Acquired is a podcast that tells the stories of companies such as YouTube, Instagram, The post Acquired Podcasting with David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Acquired Podcasting with David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert

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