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Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

The Next Web

If you’re going to the Demo Day in Silicon Valley, these are the startups you’ll be hearing from: Peerby : Peerby enables people to rent goods in their neighborhood and just won over 100,000 euros at the Green Challenge. Wercker : a continuous deployment solution for software developers, hosted in the cloud.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. Great piece!

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact theyd cause there to be more jobs for Americans, because the companies they started would hire more employees as they grew. The EB-5 visa is designed for foreign investors to get a green card if they are willing to bring capital to the US and create at least ten full-time jobs.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. The videos are Steve explaining the company's path forward to Next employees. Apple also hired away key engineers from Pixo, who I believe still work there. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Hire the absolute best and the brightest, true experts in their fields, who in turn can hire the smartest people possible to staff their departments. Insist on the incredibly high-IQ employees and hold them to incredibly high standards. I know of at least five former employees that went on to become startup founders.