Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 21, 2014
The truth is you really don’t know how your teammates or your bosses will perform in good times and bad. You hire people who look good on paper. You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. Writing a book will be fun. After 6 months – you know.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 30, 2014
The reality is that as VCs we have limited allocations of where we can spend our time so we want to attach ourselves to projects in which we, too, can be passionate. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. Were they ambitious?
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Rob does it. On steroids.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 4, 2010
If you're teaching classes of 32 maybe even 37 students, it's difficult to know where students are. It might not be problems in geometry, it might be because students can't add fractions in algebra. So, we give basic instruction and then signal teachers on where to better focus their classroom time. Jake got a similar amount.
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.
InfoChachkie
JULY 14, 2011
9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. We’re always hiring great people. I think these personal traits are what reunited us; even more so than our vision for RingRevenue.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 28, 2011
So yes, I want to hire somebody with really high IQ and EQ but not somebody who is more knowledgeable at your specific skill set than you are. I learned that I wasn’t the strongest kid in class but wasn’t a wimp either. I’ll write that post one day – it is a very interesting story. Is it book smarts?
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