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In WordPress Hosting Hell? Pantheon Now Supports WordPress

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You may noticed from prior posts that we’ve had a difficult time at Foundry Group managing our growing portfolio of WordPress sites. In our portfolio of startup companies, following is how websites usually get managed. Startup engineering teams are now tasked with managing a CMS system. The startup’s ops and engineering team.

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Feld.com Automagically Upgraded To HTTPS By Pantheon

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In this new era of state sponsored hacking and fully professionalized cybercrime, it is heartening to see engineers get seriously organized and tackle something on the scale of securing the entire web. Two years after the launch of Let’s Encrypt , this is fantastic progress. The drive to HTTPS the web did not happen by accident.

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More On Recruiting Programmers To Your Startup

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You want to showcase your best engineers in the process balanced with those who are good interviewers (which can be wildly different). Have an awesome engineering process that you are pros at and can showcase in the interview. Be careful who you pick to do the interviewing.

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Pantheon for Agencies

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For our portfolio companies, this requires diverting senior DevOps engineers to ensure things go right, which of course comes at the expense of delivering and operating their product and even then there are no guarantees. Our portfolio company Pantheon is fixing this.

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Dilbert on Cultural Fit

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But if you’re a “dude brew” startup, you may not even know why you don’t hire more technical women, and you might need help from NCWIT removing gender bias from its portfolio companies’ job ads. Gnip recently told NCWIT that they added three women to its engineering team.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

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Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. We’re engineers laying down foundational tech that others will build on top of. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.”

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

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Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. Some worked; some did not. The biggest Wall Street crash since the Great Depression (October, 1987) shocked us all.