David Teten
JANUARY 7, 2015
I made a lot of mistakes at Bridgewater, and this was by design. I agree, which is why early this year I hired a coach who interviewed all of my coworkers to determine my areas where I could improve. A successful organization designs, documents, and manages to a culture optimized for their particular situation.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. We then spoke about startups.
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YoungUpstarts
JUNE 15, 2015
The wrong first hire could kill a company, so apply the Mark Zuckerberg test: “Would I be comfortable reporting to this person if the roles were reversed? They also love hiring creative minds, so they ask potential employees about their hobbies at the interview stage. Lecture 17: How To Design Hardware Products.
David Teten
JANUARY 28, 2019
Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship. Density – Yale’s campus is dense by design. Its residential colleges are designed to cross-fertilize students and faculty from different disciplines.
Up and Running
MARCH 6, 2015
For example, Arizona currently ranks 2nd in the US for eating disorders among youths, and Middletown, Connecticut just cut funding for the student arrests prevention program. What better way to help children prepare than to introduce them to programming, engineering, and design from an early age? See Also What Is a SWOT Analysis?
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 12, 2018
So now here in CT people will search for we buy houses in connecticut. I named my fledgling commercial image company, Fenix Fotography, after the mythological bird because the Great Recession pretty much turned my previous career as a museum exhibition designer to ashes. Thanks to Tim Kerin, Casa Dare to Dream ! #10-
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. How do you know which designer/developer to choose? No phone system.
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