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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. After 10 years of building K9, my knowledge and advice to founders were becoming dated. The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve

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Recruiting Should Be Your #1 Priority From Day 1

YoungUpstarts

by Felix Winstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative. As a startup co-founder with a growing team, here are the recruiting tips I’ve learnt over the last couple of years. Robert Metcalfe, co-founder and CEO of 3Com, says you need to think about it as “recruiting, not hiring”. Hiring = Sales. Be Specific.

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Reflections On 2013, What Walter Discovered About Starting A Business After Listening To Podcast Interviews, And Our Plans For 2014

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

We also … Read the rest of this entry » The post Reflections On 2013, What Walter Discovered About Starting A Business After Listening To Podcast Interviews, And Our Plans For 2014 appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. Yaro and Walter Everything Entrepreneurship Podcast founders advice new years 2014 starting a business'

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

Still there are some common signals / symptoms that I hear about from Founders/CxOs in companies that are the reason they are calling me. Founder Developer Gap and A, B, C Players By the way, this question is another example of issues around the Founder Developer Gap. The last 10% takes the other half. You need to dive in.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design.

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Please Repeat Yourself (PRY)

Eric Friedman

The principle of DRY (Don’t repeat yourself) in software engineering is about brevity, efficiency, and reducing repetition. I hear the advice time and again that founders should repeat the goals of a Company and what they and the team are working on – but not a great way of remembering it.