YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

After all, if you can entice an MVP from another company to enlist in your ranks, you’ll deprive the competition of a key asset while taking immediate advantage of your new hire’s previous training and experience. Best of all, this kind of hiring is perfectly legal, right? Well yes… except when it’s not.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements. For more, see the FAST document below: View this document on Scribd.

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Diego Basch

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

in psychology, was responsible for user interface and documentation. The design included features such as email, spreadsheet capabilities, document protection, and much more. The project was renamed to Opus, and was staffed mostly with new hires. Arthurs, who had a Ph.D. The scope for the project turned out to be too ambitious.

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David Teten

AUGUST 5, 2013

But they are also former software engineers and hackers, an experience that undoubtedly taught them skills in critical thinking and problem solving. Making savvy business decisions is not only about engineering, but also sales and marketing, business development, recruiting, and all the other functions of business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

The categories also correspond closely to standard US corporate compensation practices as documented in this book by Michael OMalley. 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. Briefly: Level 8 is for interns.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Learn how acquisitions can usher in new eras of growth and hiring, how to nurture existing cultures, how to merge different ways of thinking when the acquiring company doesn’t have tech roots, and how to deploy strategies for future success. You don’t need rockstar engineers. You need a rockstar engineering organization.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Nothing says more about your culture than who you hire, who you fire, and who you promote. For example, I hired three CFOs in six years. Like the time I hired an executive that didn’t reflect our values and had to explain in front of the entire company how I had made a mistake. The CEO has the most power to make these decisions.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

That way, startups only have one entity in the cap table, which simplifies documentation and structure. It’s clear that AngelList wants to help bring much of the transactional conversations and introductions that happen at the early stage of hiring and fundraising via word of mouth or in meetings online.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Fortunately, an effective workforce management system lets you easily source, track, and hire top talents in just a few clicks. It analyzes data and utilizes insights to help you make smarter hiring decisions. The lack of face-to-face interactions can limit how new hires integrate and adjust to your company. Onboarding.

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Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

But there’s one field that remains stubbornly unscientific: recruitment and hiring. The reality that hidden biases abound in the screening process is well documented, but few companies realize just how pervasive the problem can be. And can really bring down morale during a tough hiring process.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. it doesn't much matter who you hire in terms of risk. Scope and a quickly released 1.0

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

HOW TO GET HIRED AS A PRODUCT MANAGER The question I am constantly asked is, “ How do I get my foot in the door for a product manager job at a tech company? I learned that software engineers?—?or Further, get as much intel as possible on the product management culture of the the company and the hiring manager.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Converting older websites to responsive design causes headaches not because small screens are difficult, but because most HTML documents were written under an assumption about screen size. Folder icons represented groups of files; document icons had a dog-eared corner that’s still common long after it was no longer needed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

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. We owe a lot to this seminal document. But what about Commodity?

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. I went to the Columbia Engineering Career Fair in October 2009 and left with ~150 resumes. We hired three guys from that batch and paid them in iPhones. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

They also want to avoid hiring extra resources that increase the cost of the finished goods unless absolutely necessary. As I noted, almost all the documents cited here are available on the Web. Here is a collected list of documents I have either quoted from or consulted extensively. Appendix: Collected Sources.

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

This ties back into a topic I’ve spoken about previously: when it comes to your product should you build it, buy it or hire it out? While you don’t have to (and should not) hire out every aspect of your product, I cannot imagine handling every detail yourself (or within your team). These days I save 60-100 hours a month.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To avoid these pitfalls, ensure your project scope includes the following: Clearly defined documentation: Building out user stories and acceptance criteria will help your team understand the value your solution must deliver to users. If there’s an issue integrating the software, who will fix it?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? In the project, they upload multiple documents to be translated. Hire one from each.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Sure, it garners the "winning " reply above, but in reality I find the answers below by Cody Riddar that directs the asker to go hire an inexpensive prototype development team much more helpful than the "leading answer" that gives the "Quora rockstar engineer" point of view.

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