Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2013

During my senior year, I took “Startup Essentials for Software Engineering” (taught by Zach Nies of Rally Software) and I can confidently say it was the best class I ever took at CU. That’s why when NEXT decided to hold an event in Boulder, I jumped at the chance to help.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Killer Events – Think about what a wonderful benefit Austin gets by hosting SxSW every year. But why not start with a niche event in a topic that can attract 200 people. And they have a vested interest in this success. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

For example: If an advisor meets with the founding team monthly, is involved in recruiting talent for the business, and takes a few customer calls, then that advisor would be entitled to 1 percent of the company in the form of restricted stock or options, vesting over a two-year time frame. Upcoming Events. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Vest, young man. Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date. Imagine you’re a highly-trained software engineer.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. Embedded software engineer.

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