The Next Web
MARCH 6, 2014
Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. You need to build trust between these teams. This makes people more aware of what their team members are up to and creates more harmony.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 26, 2020
…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Announcement: Square lets employees work from home permanently. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19. Why remote work will persist after the disease dies out.
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SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? However, when I told him that the level of engagement required from me and the fact that equity-only development was required, he seemed to be a bit offended.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. It’s a subjective topic.
Ben's Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Interestingly, one of the first things that you learn when you run an engineering organization is that a good Quality Assurance organization cannot build a high quality product, but it can tell you when the development team builds a low quality product. The Employee Lifecycle. Is your management team world-class in all phases?
OnlyOnce
MARCH 14, 2011
In Part Two, I’ll talk about some of the practices we’re using in our product management and development teams. If we drove revenue above costs, we got to take home a salary. When we were starting our deliverability business at Return Path, staying innovative was relatively easy.
Hearpreneur
MAY 26, 2015
A less-experienced employee with a strong attitude and desire to share in a company’s success will be much more beneficial than a stubborn, experienced employee who refuses to assimilate into a positive office culture. This generation wants an overlap of ‘work and play’ and looks for benefits outside of salary increases.
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