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For Those Recently Laid Off From Google, Leaving Your Job Doesn’t Mean Losing Your Identity.

Hunter Walker

While I understand the decisions to cut headcount and costs, hearing about these folks in particular made me sad. YouTube founder Chad Hurley was also very generous including me in stuff, which resulted in invites to parties, meetings, and meals above my pay grade.

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Best Job Boards for Recruiting Startup Engineers

David Teten

In a HBS Angels panel I spoke at last week, Chris Fralic of First Round Capital quoted Chad Dickerson of Etsy on this topic. Speaking at a First Round-organized event, Chad said Etsy requires 100% of their engineers to be active in the technical community: give talks, blog, etc.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

But just give people a taste, and then what I would challenge the community here to do is, these different things that you’re not an expert on or you’re not good at, go back and read what Mark has written about it. Pay me half what you think I want to earn and I’ll pay all my own moving costs.” Chad and Steve.

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How to Balance AI Magic with Human Expertise

Duct Tape Marketing

So you ask Chad GBT to do some sort of complex college math, they won't do it. LinkedIn on the Twitter x Jeffrey Coil, and yeah, what I would just recommend, if you're playing with this stuff by yourself, there's a lot of communities trying to figure out best ways to do it. AI can't do that. It can just not this. (05:41):

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26 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Chad Conley. Method) those things and stay away from them at all costs. Thanks to Chad Conley, Complete Roofing ! #23- Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. There’s nothing quite like stepping out of your door and onto beach sand. That’s a nice side benefit. 22-I stay in my zone of genius.

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

blog.expensify.com

But I’ve seen some recent comments that this post might have upset and offended the SMB community that we serve, and that I cannot abide. In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. same thing goes for the majority of the Java community).NET

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. It brings together students from both the undergraduate and graduate levels, across disciplines such as design, computer science and business.