Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Here’s how the guide is promoted on Twitter: The informative, conversational tone and fun imagery are the same as the post on the Visme website: And the same vibe as the video embedded in the guide: Visme maintains consistency throughout the customer journey. Think about your playbook from the perspective of a new hire.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

making technical recruiting suck less. Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. I ran technical recruiting at TrialPay for a year before going off to start my own agency. As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude. Jun 21, 2013.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Operate on due diligence from this point: Identify your potential key crew members — background checks, personal references, past business review are all vital. Hiring a Tech Advisor with high coding abilities can also be an option if you have a software team for revision and assessment.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. WordPress - we spent quite a bit of time talking about how you could do a lot with WordPress to provide simple forms of lots of functionality. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 29, 2018

EVP Head of Global Cities for @ Mastercard and Former CTO of NYC and CIO of SF. Founder of Darren Bates LLC A boutique consulting firm that helps private and public organizations diversify their workforce by outreaching, hiring, retaining, and promoting qualified individuals with disabilities.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. Otherwise, Ive not seen much. *

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

Are there particular technologies or platforms involved? Have they used the technologies that are involved in your project? You are looking for someone who cares about the look, but you are hiring the development firm for it''s development skills not its graphic design skills. What are the review periods?

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

You don’t need to collect the full set (tech, industry, product, customer, etc). If the founding team is non-technical and you can’t figure out whether you are being screwed by your developers or whether your potential new CTO is amazing, a tech advisor can help by joining you in interviews and reviewing commits.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. It also allows team members to search through conversations by keyword or topic. Each day, users go to Product Hunt to view a simple, clean list of handpicked tech products.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. It depends on the business, people, technologies, etc. Each situation is just a bit different.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. So those are things to think about.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

In my last post, I mentioned that you should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition. When we hired the head of worldwide sales for Opsware, using this screen proved to be quite valuable. We interviewed over 20 candidates for the position before hiring the aforementioned Mark Cranney. Stay in your place.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The Review. The Review. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. First Round Capital. Plusstartup. Product and Engineering.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. When it comes time to grow your team, Jeff Jordan and Eric pointed out three hiring mistakes to avoid.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Initially the conversation initiated by the founder focused around the need to have somebody with deep domain knowledge. You do a startup and decide you want somebody to step in and run the company so you can focus on technical excellence. or; “I don’t have enough money to hire my team yet. Is it book smarts?

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills. However, valuing the intangibles of time saving, expertise, network, etc.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

9 Tech Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets to Success | Entrepreneur – [link]. Misfit Entrepreneurs | Dan Pallotta-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Hire slow, fire fast” is not only overused–it’s also complete b t.” Obama CTO Harper Reed on Keeping Sane in a High-Pressure Environment – [link].

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Also, far too many lives of my former classmates, friends, and family members have been disrupted, and their educations and careers interrupted, due to sexual violence. hour interactive and engaging conversation. Get to know them and work with them over a period of time before fully committing. This is a 1.5-hour

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. Broadly speaking, this action plan is going to be broken up into three sections: the testing plan, the execution plan, and the review section. The business model. or even be a U.S.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer. Rockstar v.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Make sure you’ve done the due diligence on all of these areas of your business. Pretend that you are the investor.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We hired three guys from that batch and paid them in iPhones. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. It builds trust and earns buy-in from the people you hire. When you’re hiring folks, don’t promise equity upfront. Tiny, contracting market. You’ll be the only startup there. Win-win-win.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

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? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developers have worn the crown for the last 30 or more years in the technology industry - rightly. But in the world following Jonathan Ive, designers are finally getting their due. It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

I believe the single best report released from Bazaarvoice to describe this network effect with hard data is The Conversation Index, Vol. Their success is about execution in sales, services, and feature parity … and then eventually superiority (again, due to that single platform to rapidly evolve on advantage).

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