kylered

Patents are a necessary evil and a little bit addicting once you get your first taste. First to file simplifies a lot of the issues with prior art (ie the challenge of proving your idea was original), but I believe this system stifles small companies even further because of the costs associated with the patent system. We've made a decision to pursue key patents given how important some of these technologies are for our product, but I don't think that applies to most startups.

Here are some thoughts, cost overviews, and what to think about for a startup patent strategy: http://kylethered.tumblr.com/post/45273614239/good-rules-of-...

VividCortex, Inc. (remote, Charlottesville, VA)

About Us: Our products help our customers measure, analyze and understand system behavior at a very deep level. There are good tools in the application and network layers, but usable tools for servers and databases are practically nonexistent. We’re fixing that, focusing first on tools for MySQL.

DevOps Brainiac

Our backend systems and infrastructure are all written in Go (it’s awesome). We are ramping up to handle a jaw-dropping amount of incoming data. Data storage involves MySQL, Cassandra and other storage technologies in a fault-tolerant, distributed environment. We're looking for someone who can switch in and out of a couple of developer and sysops roles -- writing some server software, setting up some machines, whipping up some Chef recipes, and so on. We're a small team, so the real job description is "we need another backend/infrastructure engineer."

Front End Brainiac

The web app is backed by PHP and Symfony2, and fronted by a lot of JavaScript, using up-to-date technologies and frameworks. There's a lot of API interaction from JavaScript, and a complex user interface that's key for making our customers rave about the experience, not just the technology. We'd love to find someone who can hop back and forth between the PHP, D3, Angular, etc., and it's even better if they've got some design sensibilities and can help shape the product's features and functionality too. If you've got the latter skillset, then the PHP coding is optional.

Email us at jobs@vividcortex.com if interested.

https://vividcortex.com

I've used Excel Bloomberg plugins before and I can vouch for their power and frequent use in the financial industry.

Good luck guys. Good choices for your UI/UX.

This article sounds like a recap of Hertzberg's Two-Factor theory which is basically the application of Maslow's hierarchy of needs to the corporate world.

See: http://www.businessballs.com/herzbergmotivationdiagram.pdf See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_theory

VividCortex, Inc.

Charlottesville, VA (Remote, Fulltime)

We're building database administration tools delivered as a service. We're early-stage, pseudo-stealth, but with great momentum and access to the market, and we're well funded. It's a pretty unique company and market, and it's tackling a legitimate problem in the devops/sysadmin world. Our jobs:

Dev/ops: our backend systems and infrastructure are all written in Go (it’s awesome). We are ramping up to handle a jaw-dropping amount of incoming data. Data storage involves MySQL and other storage technologies in a fault-tolerant, distributed environment. We're looking for someone who can switch in and out of a couple of developer and sysops roles -- writing some server software, setting up some machines, whipping up some Chef recipes, and so on. We're a small team, so the real job description is "we need another backend/infrastructure engineer."

Frontend: the web app is backed by PHP and Symfony2, and fronted by a lot of JavaScript, using up-to-date technologies and frameworks. There's a lot of API interaction from JavaScript, and a complex user interface that's key for making our customers rave about the experience, not just the technology. We'd love to find someone who can hop back and forth between the PHP and the stuff that runs in the browser, and it's even better if they've got some design sensibilities and can help shape the product's features and functionality too. If you've got the latter skillset, then the PHP coding is optional.

Head of UX/UI: your impact would be immediate as we already have leading consumer web companies using our technology. Your impact would also be lasting because there really isn’t anything in this space, and, if you can lead the defining efforts of UX/UI for system administration, then you will have moved the industry forward. Ideally, you know Photoshop, have worked with front-end development teams and know a little bit about system administration. Additionally, we work with a lot of charts and graphs, and notification feeds. Other than that, we are open to a variety of experiences.

As an early-stage company, we offer the chance to end up owning a fair chunk of what we believe is likely to be a very valuable business.

Email jobs@vividcortex.com

VividCortex, Charlottesville, VA (global workforce) - Hiring Front End Developer (salary + options)

We are building a SaaS Platform for systems administration. We are initially focusing on MySQL administration, as we have years of experience building leading tools for the industry. Our beta clients are very well-known, leading tech firms that use MySQL. Our team has years of experience building web applications and with high performance MySQL management.

We are also building a killer UI that will be the primary value for our customers. You'll be focusing on making that UI a reality. Ideally, you have expertise in modern web application development including JavaScript frameworks, building responsive designs for mobile/desktop, API client development, MySQL, and the Symfony2 PHP framework. It wouldn't hurt to be a good sysadmin, good with The Cloud, have some other devopsy buzzwords thrown in too... you get the idea.

If interested, email stuff to jobs@vividcortex.com . We are fun! ;)

No, for a variety of reasons. Mainly we always wanted it as a lifestyle business, but also due to location factors and not wanting to put in that much time again.

I'd say about 15 to 20 hours a week for the first 9 months, then declining to about half that after 18 months.

I invested in a CrossFit gym three years ago with 2 partners and we've done about 40x our original investment in dividends over the last three years. It was a lot of work the first 18 months, but now it's a solid business with good recurring revenue and a staff that runs it very well.

The bigger problem is that our education system is failing us and not training a workforce that has value in today's society. We are clearly undergoing a structural change in society that is increasingly valuing those who create "robots," or automated solutions. When it comes to middle wage earners, we need to do a better job creating value from our education system.

I wrote a little more here on why being like a robot is better for startups: http://kylethered.tumblr.com/post/39054135068/implications-o...

and here on how bad our education system is from an economic perspective: http://kylethered.tumblr.com/post/37790176790/data-says-high...