Engineering Founders by The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)

37 - Testing venture-scale ideas, identifying your competitive edge & devtool trends w/ Lee Edwards @ Root Ventures

The show for engineering leaders making the leap to start their own company! We dive into the stories, pivotal moments and critical insights from former eng leaders turned founders, that helped them take those early leaps to launch their own company!

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37 - Testing venture-scale ideas, identifying your competitive edge & devtool trends w/ Lee Edwards @ Root Ventures

Thu, 18 Apr 2024
36 - Finding your wedge: enterprise go-to-market & product building strategy w/ Vidya Raman

Thu, 4 Apr 2024
35 - Scaling yourself ‘down’ as an engineering leader w/ James Everingham @ Lightspark

Thu, 21 Mar 2024
34 - Rapidly operating early-stage engineering at global scale, mapping eng workflows to personas & pivoting pricing / business models w/ Scott Woody

Thu, 29 Feb 2024
33 - Execution strategy, proof of concepts & intermediate value-creation steps at deep tech startups w/ Quinn Jacobson

Thu, 15 Feb 2024
32 - Cold outreach & strategically expanding your business model into services w/ Jon Perl & Scott Wilson @ QA Wolf

Thu, 25 Jan 2024
31 - Your eng background is your founder advantage w/ Jorge Torres @ MindsDB

Thu, 11 Jan 2024
30 - Finding opportunity in areas w/ poor implementation, shaping tech innovation into products & creating fast time to value w/ Gaurav Oberoi @ Lexion.ai

Thu, 21 Dec 2023
29 - Solving the right problems and competing on execution risk w/ Varun Mohan @ Codeium

Thu, 30 Nov 2023
28 - Capturing & synthesizing unbiased insights from users, your open source community & yourself w/ James Campbell @ Great Expectations

Thu, 2 Nov 2023
27 - Assessing emerging trends and why your product should go broad vs. narrow w/ Karan Talati @ First Resonance

Thu, 19 Oct 2023
26 - Open-source to commercial product, repeatable sales models + making your 1st marketing hire w/ Ramiro Berrelleza

Thu, 5 Oct 2023
25 - Overcoming product bias, embracing specificity, growing your user-base & developing extroverted qualities w/ Roni Dover

Fri, 22 Sep 2023
24 - Early-day founding & funding decisions, choosing ideas + using community tools to build a dev-tool company w/ Paul Dix

Mon, 28 Aug 2023
23 - Becoming a better strategic contributor & business leader w/ Jessica McKellar

Thu, 17 Aug 2023
22 - Company building in highly competitive industries w/ Rick Song @ Persona

Fri, 21 Jul 2023
21 - Lessons co-founding and operating an AI/ML company during massive market shifts w/ Jared Roesch

Thu, 22 Jun 2023
20 - Prioritizing & ignoring fires, mastering pivots, unexpected barriers to scale and scaling human-centric elements of your product w/ On Freund

Thu, 8 Jun 2023
19 - Identifying your internal champion & finding the right data/stories to sell into companies w/ Buchi Reddy Busi Reddy

Thu, 25 May 2023
18 - Gaining early-design partners, converting your first customers, identifying your ICP & default delegating w/ Mahima Chawla

Thu, 4 May 2023
17 - Lessons from building in public & re-discovering product-market fit w/ Charley Ho & Alexander Embiricos

Fri, 21 Apr 2023
16 - Company building with 3 co-founders, delineating roles & finding repeatable sales channels w/ Dylan Etkin, Don Brown & Michael Knighten @ Sleuth

Thu, 6 Apr 2023
15 - Navigating the new fundraising environment, idea-mazing, relationship pipelines, and overcoming pattern-matching bias w/ Lizzie Matusov

Thu, 16 Mar 2023
14 - Product primitives, pre/post PMF strategy & co-founder surveys w/ Arya Asemanfar

Thu, 2 Mar 2023
13 - Google form MVPs, Leveraging Maslow’s Hierarchy in product, & customer acquisition strategies w/ Tri Ahmad Irfan

Thu, 16 Feb 2023
12 - Pre-Seed Fundraising Strategy w/ Ihar Mahaniok

Fri, 27 Jan 2023
11 - Building a vertically integrated Saas business from day 1 w/ Sean Stavropoulos @ Boulevard

Fri, 6 Jan 2023
10 - Pitching & consumer-based go-to-market lessons from ComicCon w/ Chris Pruett @ Jam

Thu, 22 Dec 2022
9 - Developer experience & building a developer-first company w/ Sagar Batchu @ Speakeasy

Thu, 8 Dec 2022
8 - Top-down / Bottoms-up sales strategy, pricing, and enterprise product adoption w/ Abi Noda

Thu, 17 Nov 2022
7 - Clarity on product building, business strategy, and activating your network (if you’re anti-networking) w/ Adam Oliner

Fri, 4 Nov 2022
6 - Pre-seed fundraising, pitching investors & dealing with rejection w/ Aaron Erickson & Brian Guthrie

Thu, 7 Apr 2022
5 - Market validation, making demos work at all costs & designing impossible shapes w/ Bradley Rothenberg

Fri, 25 Mar 2022
4 - Co-founder trust & making major pivots w/ Daniela Miao & Khawaja Shams @ Momento

Thu, 3 Mar 2022
3 - Finding founder-fit, invalidating ideas & startup success factors with Michel Tricot

Thu, 17 Feb 2022
2 - AI/ML Start-up Trends with Anna Patterson

Tue, 1 Feb 2022
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