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OCTOBER 25, 2009
For example, a recent phone call I had with a young entrepreneur straight out of one of the most prestigious engineering schools in America he asked, “I have an offer for $400,000 in seed money but the VC wants me to agree now to bring in a new CEO.&# This company is doing its SEED round and they already want to bring someone new in.
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APRIL 5, 2010
He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).
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FEBRUARY 7, 2011
In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer. After Meebo launched, his friends helped him get the word out and soon they were getting coverage as far a China and India.
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JULY 13, 2013
You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point. Engineering vs. non-engineering. [00:10:32]
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OCTOBER 15, 2009
I hired a senior exec from the building materials industry (we were a document collaboration company for the engineering & construction industry) who was also ex McKinsey. We had 6 developers, 1 head of product management, 1 QA in India and me. The expectations of our company having raised $16.5 million were enormous.
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JANUARY 31, 2010
I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction. We set up a development center in India and I had to be there for three weeks to tour all of the prospective cities. And at the 11th hour they pulled out.
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JULY 5, 2010
This is sometimes done in a cheaper part of your country but is more often done in a developing country rich with technical talent and smart people such as the Ukraine, China, India, Bulgaria and the like. But where I make exceptions I expect the VP Engineering and the Chief Architect to all be located in the home office.
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