techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

It’s clear that AngelList wants to help bring much of the transactional conversations and introductions that happen at the early stage of hiring and fundraising via word of mouth or in meetings online. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. The site is also a data goldmine. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. New York City.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. You can’t let every team hire as many team members as they want. A Sense of Purpose. Conviction.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

And we are just starting our first year in Seattle.”…” Of the Boulder companies there have been 41 companies that have gone through the Boulder program and there is some mortality…” “I guess it’s 5 or 6 that have failed. And then was hired by Stephen Spielberg for Minority Report. “It has worked out great. That is a personality type.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

Can upstart ecosystems in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, or Seattle churn out tomorrow’s billion dollar tech companies? When it comes to hiring, start-ups located outside of Silicon Valley have an initial advantage, because there’s a lot less competition for engineers. But there are some considerations….

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. View More in Seattle ›. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. Seattle Events ›. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? The strongest impact on improving this situation is Silicon Valley and Seattle companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and others are making enormous investments in building So Cal as a software town. Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. Big boy applications.

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Software Developers Software Development PHP Silicon Valley 22

adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? It follows that an "idea guy" who "just needs to hire a few engineers" probably isnt running a tech startup. The founders or at least the hiring manager should be doing the bulk of the hiring early on - including phone screens. Yeah me neither.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires. I have metCTOs who manage divisions that had 500 - 1000 engineers or more. The CTO does supervise a small team(typically 10-50 engineers, depending on the size of the company) thatfunctions as an incubator for high risk technology directions.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes. Try Google.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

You’ve got a great number of senior level talent in engineering, sales, marketing, etc. For example, the University of Waterloo is a top-ranked engineering school known for cutting edge research in quantum physics and nanotechnology. The Bay Area has powerhouses like Stanford and UC Berkeley for sourcing talent. Great senior talent.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Engineer, arranger, communicator, amateur photographer. On the other hand, this was new territory for the founders as well; they had zero experience making offers to new startup hires. As a founder, his salary was lower than any of those offered to the new hires; he also had substantially more equity. Michelle Wetzler.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It presents a unique opportunity to hire a candidate who represents our community’s values and brings a forward thinking mindset to addressing Austin’s civic challenges. The Board hires the CEO — or City Manager, in this case — who’s in charge of carrying out the day-to-day administrative operations for the entire organization.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Home About Contact Make It Happen: How to find a Programmer My weekly post on Seattle 2.0. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. If you’re fortunate enough to have money to hire a programmer, spend it wisely.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

I know that I need to shore up these weaknesses, and I know that I have challenges with hiring,” whatever it is. Could you go down to some obscure form of engineering software company or something of that nature? I know that I’m good at this and not good at that. John Jantsch: How niche can you get with that? Yeah, yeah.

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Silicon Valley SEO Startup Technical Review 33

konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 18, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO Before Founding Konamoxt, my last gig was the Chief Technology Officer for a local Seattle Startup. Startup CEO, I’m here to tell you, you can’t afford to hire a CTO. And maybe more importantly what do you think you get when you hire a CTO?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Amazon and Microsoft have large engineering offices in Vancouver and Toronto. The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Were helping the second-largest city in the United States become a veritable tech center," Google says on its website, in trying to attract employees for sales and engineering positions. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Google says.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Five years, several iterations and a stint at a Seattle business accelerator later, things are going smoothly and successfully. Hire and surround yourself with people who are hungry for the opportunity and super driven,” she advises. Five useful tools and an entrepreneur’s workspace.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

John Jantsch: I’m doing a couple episodes today and my last guest was a head of engineering at Moz. They were able to provide exceptional service at Starbucks because they hired exceptional people who weren’t just like there for a paycheck and they were either burned out or looking to do their next thing.

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China New York City New York Technical Review 64

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Twittering laughter fills the air at the new Techstars office on the edge of Chinatown in Boston, as dozens of young engineers, designers, and marketers gather to raise a glass to Katie Rae, a startup veteran with short, curly blond hair and unstoppable energy. The toast is an annual rite of passage for Boston’s startup scene.

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Technology Boston Cloud Silicon Valley 60

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Amazon and Microsoft have large engineering offices in Vancouver and Toronto. The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast.

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Silicon Valley Canada Entrepreneur Startup 48

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And so when that revenue tripled and suddenly I was like, Oh, I can hire people to help me, like this thing is gonna work. Now that's, it's a little bit misleading in the sense that the investment, I could write the software myself because I got a software engineering degree from mit. But I ended up hiring a lot of my friends.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. Thanks to Susan Smith, Velden Engineering ! #5- We had a billion-dollar project go haywire because of hiring processes.

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www.thenameinspector.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Ideally a name is relevant, positive, memorable, reasonably short, not too generic, not too similar to a competing name, associated with an available domain name, and distinctive enough to bring your web page to the top of search engine results. Hire The Name Inspector. Search engine names. Seattle Interest (14).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens. Welcome to the future.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. It’s fucking hard hiring right now.&#. Imagine your company hiring in the Valley.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

This is especially true for companies headquartered in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and New York. I’ve found that secondary/tertiary US cities work better than international locations, with the exception of software/hardware engineering locations. China and India work, but seem to be harder and more hit or miss.

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Silicon Valley Seattle Russia Denver 81

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

Artists have brilliant minds that accountants and engineers couldn’t even create an algorithm for. I am looking to hire someone and train them to run this business, doing many of the daily tasks that I do now. My sister is also an artist and studying to become an art therapist in Seattle, Washington. Getting visibility?

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Intellectual Property Chicago Social Media Design 158

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Lead Engineer 0.5 - 1. 5+ years Experience Engineer 0.33 - 0.66. Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. Below is an example of how some companies may approach distributing equity to employees. Title Range (%).

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market. Hipcamp (*) was founded in 2013 by Alyssa Ravasio as an engine to search across the dozens and dozens of State and National park websites for campsite availability.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Part 1 Posted 06.30.2009 in Blog One of the first things I did at Zoecity was to build a new engineering team based in Malaysia. Zoecity’s headquarters is in Seattle but we have a satellite office in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. Seattle and Kuala Lumpur has a 15-hour time difference. E-mail is instantaneous.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Professional networks are the starting point (and growth engine). Scaling a people-intensive business requires hiring and retaining exceptional talent. In 2011, “I was speaking at Mozcon in Seattle,” remembers Conversion.com ’s Stephen Pavlovich. Spoiler alert: It all comes down to people. The formula has worked for others.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

For example, a seed firmshould be able to give advice about how to approach VCs, which VCsobviously dont need to do; whereas VCs should be able to giveadvice about how to hire an "executive team," which is not an issuein the seed stage. You dont have to spend time on bureaucraticstuff, because you havent hired any bureaucrats yet.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. The deal went through, I bought the website, and eventually hired a team of writers.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Professional networks are the starting point (and growth engine). Scaling a people-intensive business requires hiring and retaining exceptional talent. In 2011, “I was speaking at Mozcon in Seattle,” remembers Conversion.com ’s Stephen Pavlovich. Spoiler alert: It all comes down to people. The formula has worked for others.

SEO 49

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Simulation applications After six months, we hypothesized that our most likely customers were scientists and engineers who used one of five applications: computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, computational chemistry and seismic data processing and reservoir simulation. Their interest was easy to understand.

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