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Our company is trying a new experiment for helping people find jobs at good startups who we know and respect http://nextdigest.com/vip. The process is blind for the company side and we only introduce you to companies you are interested in. Would love to have you as a early beta user if you are interested.
Even if your code is terrible, it shows a lot about your character.
Vice versa applies too :)
I hope after this business people can see that learning to code is not impossible, and can actually be quite fun if you are serious about starting a tech company. It's always better to have an basic understanding of what you are trying to build as opposed to being scared and never trying to learn yourself.
Wondering if there might be an opportunity for you to use this as a tool for marketers to get a trending topic on twitter or for political candidates to sign people up for their support?
You could drive some serious awareness if you had 10,000+ people all tweet one message at the same time.
Also signing NDAs might turn people away. I would try to be as casual and organic with this as possible to start with.
Tried to bring together the best people we knew who have hired successfully in the past to share their tactical knowledge on the subject.
Can't wait to see the product live and in action, and change the face of the art world as we know it today.
We have case studies on founders hiring people from the classifieds site http://thestartupdigest.com/2010/09/08/hiring-startup-case-s... but if anyone has feedback on the "feedback section" would be great to hear from you.
All the records of who said what, linked appropriately are there. Makes for a good public depository of everything.
Feels like being a real reporter on a real case collecting all of the facts about the story!
But I wonder if the job is for Seqouia the VC firm or an internal portfolio company?
So being called that is definitely a compliment :)
We would chat everyday on IM and he would ask me product feedback, design, new ideas, etc for UpDown. We both independently moved out to the bay area and just started working on random ideas together.
It was cool because we got to work together long in advance from being co-founders and we were also friends beforehand. Personally I think its always a upside to knowing how the other person works and being in a productive environment with your potential co-founder in advance.
You should change your "we take the "buy a card" off your to do list"
to > "we take the "buy a (birthday, holiday, etc) card" off your to do list"
Then you don't need the top text either. I would also include some pictures in the step 1-3 as well.
It's the first time LA's ever had a real sense of community and I felt the vibe changing for the better.
The blog post is a profile of the Los Angeles startup scene, who you should meet, and what you should do there if you are thinking of moving or visiting the city.
"And without those occasional but huge exits, the entire ecosystem can fail. Venture firms need big returns to raise new funds. Without venture money a lot of the innovation in Silicon Valley would end.
So in effect, the argument goes, the angel investors are like a quickly growing cancer. Without radically invasive surgery, Silicon Valley will eventually flatline."
Will definitley expand further upon this in the future and address the questions you have on email.
Also there is the argument of how do you get your facebook/twitter DM notifications? Mostly through email. Even all of these social services ask for an email when you sign up and send emails to drive you back to the site.
Facebook is now one of the largest senders of email in the world..
The blog post is a profile of the Philippines and who you should meet, and what you should do there if you are thinking of moving or visiting the country.