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Propensity Modeling: Using Data (and Expertise) to Predict Behavior

ConversionXL

Or even that an email recipient will unsubscribe. to be competent, optimizers need a basic understanding of statistics and propensity models. Regression is a good option because it’s very interpretable for non-technical audiences, which means it can be communicated easily. Or that a customer will churn.

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Lessons from Facebook on Recruiting Elite Engineers

David Teten

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. If you’re hiring for a full time position it can be very risky to hire after only using email/phone/Skype. Keep candidates engaged.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude. Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. What can change, however, is how they do the filtering.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Yesware – Email for Salespeople (backed by Foundry Group and Google). David Cancel – Founder of Performable and Compete ( blog , @Dcancel).

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. But what about Commodity? And having the session abstracted from the transport made debugging much harder.