Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. When we interview managers, one of our standard questions is “How do you think about code quality?” Besides unit testing, engineers also perform manual developer end-to-end testing.

Part-Time VPE 99

Part-Time VPE Software Review Engineer Technical Review 99

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. You'll be responsible for the successful management of the sales organization in order to meet the objectives of the Company.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres.

CTO Hire 308

CTO Hire Management Technical Review Part-Time VPE 308

Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. We asked Sylvain to share his secret tips with us.

Part-Time VPE 48

Part-Time VPE Engineer Retention API 48

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 21, 2013

I’ve probably been thinking about this topic a lot lately because I’ve been recently meeting with the other founder at a few of my portfolio companies. For example, at one of my portfolio companies, the other founder looked after administration, finance, operations, product and engineering. And then a VP of finance.

Cofounder 45

Cofounder Founder Part-Time VPE Portfolio 45

firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Product and Engineering. Management and Company Building. -->. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Plusstartup.

CTO Hire 52

CTO Hire Engineer Software Review Part-Time VPE 52