YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2015

Search engine impersonators are bots that pretend to be crawling a website in an attempt to index it and find useful links. Most website owners are more than happy to have the search engine bots (googlebot and bingbot, to name a couple) browsing their website all day long. It is evidence to the agility of DDoS attackers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

For a well-funded seed company I have controversially recommended hiring a great office manager that doubles as an administrative assistant. This happens because many CEOs are passionate, market-driven people who are constantly trying to launch new products, win contracts, get press, hire staff and woo VCs. Hire a great CFO.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Hire more non-Partner staff. – Hire more Partners. For a VC fund to be actively engaged in a large number of investments, it needs to hire more Partners to sit on more boards. If you’re thinking of hiring a Partner, I suggest see How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Dr. Karrer graduated from Loyola Marymount University (Valedictorian), then attended USC as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2020

Thank you pages” for lead forms are often generic—and, by default, set to be indexed by search engines. Exclude office IP addresses using Google Analytics filters. Some solutions, like excluding your internal IP address, take just a couple minutes to implement. Ensure confirmation pages are set to “noindex.” How to fix it.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

per engineer.” Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. Those who do, often believe they can hire from the open market without the hassle of an acquisition. Very different.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

On the surface, the news that the use of search engine impersonator bots is down from 57% of all DDoS bot traffic in 2014 to a miniscule 0.9% In order to understand what botnet operators’ abandonment of search engine impersonator bots actually means for your website security, imagine being the owner of a cheese store.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

Though you could hire someone full time to sift through and analyze the pros and cons of each tool, it’s easier to learn from the experience of others and make a decision based on that. There are a lot of available configuration options, for example you can add multiple filters such as user IP address, localisation or cookie values.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Your best defense against slippage is making the right hires in the first place. Paisley is OK.)

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Work directly with engineers, no company involved. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. To start off you should focus on working with a company that offers you direct access to engineers and is willing to work as an extended branch for your team. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only!

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

How to Hire in Chicago – [link]. British Engineer Designs Own Heart Valve Implant, Saves Own Life – [link]. With increasing numbers of mobile apps, IP theft is becoming more common – [link]. Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design – [link]. Finding Cash for Your Start Up – Part 1 – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2012

Steve, the VP of Sales and Marketing previously ran their engineering department. Most of the sales force were previously design engineers. I can barely recall the other people I met, (my potential boss the VP of Marketing, interviews with various engineers, etc.) There was a long silence on the other end of the phone.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

While this doesn’t mean you need to put your hand up to run this aspect of the company you can at least advise the startup on appropriate new hires, or if they should be looking to implement something sooner rather than later. The earlier you back a startup the more important this is likely to be. But that doesn’t always have to be the case.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

India’s vast talent pool is of interest to many international businesses open to hiring remotely overseas. Known for its abundant engineering talent pool, India attracts outsourcing hubs and multinational R&D labs. A study claims that India's GDP grew by 5% between 2019 and 2020.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

They didn’t wait until their universities hired a director of this new program. So, instead of trying to wow the community with how smart your professors are or the IP you have in house, start position yourselves to ask questions, learn, and participate as peers in a changing world. break the silos!

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

It is incumbent on management to create and sustain an environment that leads to hiring, encourages quality work, rewards effort and accomplishment, treats workers fairly, pays an equitable wage, provides for basic welfare, respects families, supplies adequate work flexibility, and, importantly, celebrates the work itself. Thanks, guys!

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. IP Location Tools. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Check them out. But thatâ??s

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Promising men to let them ‘shop like men’, BRANDiD employs its Masculine Algorithmic Learning Engine (M.A.L.E.) A Latvian game development firm building a high-performance game engine in HTML5 for online games. A p2p service marketplace where people can hire locals to run small errands (e.g. assemble a garden shed).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition. A good rule of thumb is to raise money when you need to start hiring, but this really depends on the context of your startup. Patented Technology? Don’t raise just to get a salary or because you need to pay for servers.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

That’s how search engines know what your site is about. Hiring someone new? It’s our direct connection to the search engine giant itself, and it can give us a wealth of information about how Google is reading our website. That boiled down to keywords. With Penguin in place, you still need to have your keywords in your content.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I just signed an S-152 to approve the hiring of some external lawyers who want to join us to become judges. We want to enable people to buy & sell IP in the same way that buy & sell cars. Kappos: We’ve hired Dr. Stewart Tate, a tenured Georgia Tech econ professor. Kappos: Backlog of the board is up to 20,000 cases.

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Intellectual Property Detroit Technical Review Software Review 60

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

So it could be a sweeping turn, like a new product launch or, you know, refocusing your company, or it could be a minor turn like, uh, or a less sweeping turn like who you hire or who you fire or how you price your products. Steve McKee (08:08): I spoke to the roadway engineer who literally wrote the book on roadway turns and he educated me.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Hire an SEO team to link your site to authorities and improve your search engine rankings. If you own the IP on a particular technology or information product, then you can create licensing agreements for other businesses to sell your product for you. 2 License Your Product. 3 Mergers, Partnerships and Acquisitions.

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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. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Lots of business-y, idea-type people who say they’re looking for a co-founder are, in reality, looking for what is best described as an “engineering bitch.&# Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Are there greater opportunities for higher rankings in the search engines, or is the design of your website helping or hindering you? ( If a local employee has a vested interest in the company, they are arguably more inclined to assist with introductions than they are likely to hire a translator. Intellectual property.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

Well, if you have an option pool of only 6% and have many more execs to hire to build out your team you’re going to ask for more options to be created in the future. If you’re a solo founder and haven’t built out your team or engineers I’m likely to want 15+%. How much is in the option pool?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. I have a bachelor's in computer science and computer engineering. He was our IP attorney. When the pandemic hit, Irma and Jake turned their attention to another problem. Irma Olguin : I did.

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We have also recently handled a few “acquihires” (or “acqui-hires”) — which is a somewhat unique transaction, with a host of unusual issues. The appeal from the acquirer’s perspective is that – in one fell swoop – it acquires a team of engineers. The appeal from the startup’s perspective is a “soft landing.”.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 23, 2011

Not only are there key contractual issues that must be buttoned-down (like vesting and IP assignment ), but also there is a minefield of laws and regulations that must be complied with. Moreover, as Chris Dixon reminded me, it is also unlawful for companies to hire illegal immigrants. university.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Prospects and clients alike expect to be able to turn to a search engine and find the answer to any question or challenge they face. Do you believe that, as companies look to grow their teams, small business owners should all be hiring content-specific staff? Marketing Podcast with Pamela Wilson. Marketing Podcast with Pamela Wilson.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I love running experiments on my own, and I'm really excited about, I don't really like the term "bio-hacking," but there's a lot of fun and educational biology and chemistry experiments you can do at home like I did some polymer synthesis and some basic yeast genetic engineering. Before that, I was an electronics engineer.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. you can hire for those.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". From "Think and Grow Rich".

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