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“When there is pain in America, we see more volume.” Crisis Text Line, Tech & Trump.

Hunter Walker

” HW: The tech infrastructure needs to be reliable—you’re dealing with very personal and often time-sensitive issues. First two hires were a CTO and Chief Data Scientist and they were out of DoSomething.org. So much of who we are today we owe to Chris Johnson, the founding CTO. He owned the product pipeline.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. of Elon’s ideas to come to fruition and let him fail on the rest. We hired outside experts.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

The rest have been companies with some early market validation. For example, in the case of one recent company that we’ve been working with for the last 7 months, we have sourced half of the new team members for the company, including their CTO, head of marketing, head of customer success, and a talented senior engineer.

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“Regardless of who is in the White House, we have work to do from the bottom up and from the outside in” – Five Questions With Jennifer Pahlka of Code for America

Hunter Walker

I had heard of Code for America but wasn’t exactly sure what they did or how they did it. Donate , come work at Code for America , work in government , or join your local Code for America Brigade ! One example comes from our first year of the Code for America fellowship program. And you can help.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Save the rest for later. Hire one from each. Then carry on with the rest.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

At the time, RIM was the dominant smartphone company and Livingston settled into a “process-heavy” job within the company, where he worked tirelessly all hours. “By At the end of my four-month term, they brought me on part-time to run a team that built out a system around the software I’d developed at night.”.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

The rest have been companies with some early market validation. For example, in the case of one recent company that we’ve been working with for the last 7 months, we have sourced half of the new team members for the company, including their CTO, head of marketing, head of customer success, and a talented senior engineer.