March 2012
3 posts
Bijan Sabet: Hiring from the community →
bijan:
Many startups in our portfolio hire their early team by focusing their recruiting efforts exclusively on their community.
In the early days, Twitter and Tumblr heavily favored hiring folks that were active and engaged users of their respective products.
It’s one of the best filters around as far…
Powerful Organizational Tool Behind A Vanilla UI
I have been trying out this new task list utility called Workflowy.
Wasn’t 100% sure what to do with it right away, but within a couple of minutes figured out how to access all the core features to make it usable.
As I kept using it, I fell in love with it more and more. So I’ve made the decision to jump ship on everything else I was using and just stick with this tool.
Problem I...
Holy Crap - Great Weekend for Tech Valley...
The buzz words I kept hearing over and over again this weekend were “energy”, “excitement”, and then from the team members there until late in the night “more caffeine”.
There were also a lot of people, like me, where it was our first time participating in a Tech Startup Weekend (#swtechvalley). We definitely did not know what to expect. There is a big...
