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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

Founded by interaction designer Brad Damphousse and software engineer Andrew Ballester, GoFundMe was first conceptualized back in 2008 when both were driven by personal tragedies that led to want to use their talents for good. The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. I ran technical recruiting at TrialPay for a year before going off to start my own agency. The results.