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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

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According to Toni Schneider, a Partner at True Ventures, and a Team-Lead at Automattic, boundaryless teams confer a real advantage; “You can hire great people wherever you find them: Once your company is untethered from one physical location, your pool of available job applicants becomes the entire world. And office rents?

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

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Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, California. tips@techcrunch.com. Gift Guide.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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TNW Profile: Credictive founder Ela Madej on being ‘a woman in tech’, Rainbows and Unicorns

The Next Web

Both my parents and my sister are software engineers … I actually have female co-founders in my companies – an amazing developer & manager Agata (also included in that Top 100 list) and Socha, an architect-turned-designer. My partners are making all that possible, it’s pure teamwork. This helps me relax.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers.

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Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M

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At the same time, Goodman says he wants Bright to go broader than its own website, possibly by partnering with other hiring products like Taleo and Jobvite. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, California. We respect your anonymity feel free to directly email us. tips@techcrunch.com. Contact TechCrunch. 2011 Holiday.

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How to Build a Startup Team

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Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr. Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.