View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2016

This desperate need for employees often leads to an equally desperate, ad-hoc approach to recruiting without any relevant recruiting metrics being tracked. Founders furiously work their networks, post open positions on every reasonable-looking job board, and hope to quickly start hiring. Candidate-company fit: Interview-to-hire.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

Judy Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, having started seven tech companies since 1981. She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. When I started they had 18,000 employees and double that when I left."

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CTO Hire Startup Algorithm Leadership 118

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

If you're looking for a new podcast, the female startup club shares tips, tactics and strategies from the world's most successful female founders, entrepreneurs, and women in business to inspire you to, to action and get what you want out of your career. I knew what to do. Let's just crank through this. And then secondly was the text.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Joel is focused on the fact that in many environments, programmers are considered "just the hired help" akin to manual labor, and not treated properly. I would add, though, a further question: Do new employees write code on their first day? Completely necessary.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure. In the post-mortem of Kiko, Mahesh Piddshetti writes : Most entrepreneurs have lots of ideas.

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

But before that, actually, there was this a couple of years break where, when Udemy did not work in Turkey, I met this Silicon Valley entrepreneur who wanted to build online, like speed dating, a video-based speed dating application. ER : Do you know how big of a fraction of the California vaccine rollout you guys have been?

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