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Top Tips for Building an Engineering Team

The Startup Magazine

No engineering firm can succeed without the right team in place. Engineering is all about working together and collaborating, so it is vital that you take your time with recruitment to find people that will be a good fit, mesh with one another and help to take your firm to new heights. Identify Roles & Needs.

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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. One of the lessons we’ve learned in building HiHello is to recognize and filter out fake / scam engineering candidates from our recruiting pipeline. Along the way, I’ve learned and am learning a LOT.

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Los Angeles CTO / VP Engineering Job Searches

SoCal CTO

As the organizer of the LA CTO Forum , I get lots of inquiries by job seekers and people looking for CTO / VP Engineering talent. VCs / Investors Another common inquiry is, “Should I get introduced to VCs or other Investors who might need help in their portfolio companies?” If you have other thoughts on this topic, please comment.

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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. And she has not only been instrumental to Shippo, but also an extremely valuable resource to other engineering leaders in the Version One family. Functional quality.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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Spotlight on Engineering Team Building: Lessons learned from Algolia

Cracking the Code

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec.

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Shopify Guide — Here’s How to Become an Expert

ReadWriteStart

A Strong Portfolio of Your Previous Work After getting accepted in the Shopify Experts Marketplace, you will have a page to list your portfolio items, experiences, locations, and rates. Therefore, you should have your site on WIX, Weebly, or WordPress to build your portfolio.

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