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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. We have weekly executive reviews of those OKRs to track how we are progressing against intermediate milestones relative to the ultimate monthly goal. Or the Harvard of Brazil?

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How can startups engage with Google?

VC Cafe

I believe I am qualified to talk about this as I spent ~6 years at Google in strategic partnerships (commerce), as head of Campus London (Google’s first physical startup hub), Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe (now called Google for Startups) and eventually general partner for Google Ventures.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

Since we had no money to afford a professional translation service, I took advantage of the fact that Israel is very much a country of immigrants and asked for help from my relatives from Brazil and Argentina to do our Portuguese and Spanish localizations (thank you Luciana and Jaco!). These, too, were highly effective. Isn’t that fun?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson? I run a.NET development team and before this gig I spent 4 years running a web app written in.Net. March 26, 2011 at 1:15 am.

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