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This is the last post in a series of three articles on Xobni’s launch. Check out the first episode on the ideas behind Xobni , and the second post about the journey to building the right product .
The Right Stuff: Building The Team
(Fortune Magazine) -- As president of Google, Larry Page has pushed his people to take risks that have led to hot new applications like Gmail and Google Maps. Lately he has been thinking far outside the walls of his company. Page sees a world of opportunity - in areas ranging from energy to safer cars.
Larry Page on how to change the world
Smart People should do Stupid Stuff
I was fortunate to attend Olin College of Engineering with some of the brightest minds in the country, and the bar of achievement was set high.
Articles, Weblog postings, and forum discussions about hiring practices and interview techniques tend to draw a lot of attention and spawn lengthy, passionate debates.
Can you Identify programmers in an Interview? Not definitely gre
Looking to Hire an Engineer? 3 Reasons to Forgo the Phone Screen
If Sergey Brin applied for an engineering position at Google today, would he pass the requisite phone screening? Don’t be so sure: While he might look good on paper, he’d probably have to brush up on his Python programming skills first.Noise goes up but the quality stays the same Hiring is always hard. The hardest thing to do at a company is the recruiting and hiring.
Why hiring is paradoxically harder in a downturn
Why Iteration is a Powerful Way to Build a Startup
Getting things right straight off the bat is no simple task.
John Osher , a serial entrepreneur who launched several successful companies (notoriously, Cap Toys with sales of $125 million per year and sold it to Hasbro Inc. in 1997 ), came up with an informal list of “16 Mistakes Start-Ups Make” – since expanded to 17 – where he put every blunder and error he made during his entrepreneurial career. Ever since, this list has been used in Harvard Business School case studies and in many business publications.
17 Mistakes start-ups make
Consumers and businesses are being more careful with their money now, but they are still buying software if it will save them time and/or money. If you have been laid off in the current recession, perhaps now is a good time to start that microISV you have been thinking about. But starting your own business can be a bit daunting if you haven’t done it before.
Running a microISV
Most Programming Interviews are a Waste of Time
Interviewing a candidate is so much fun because you get to passively assert your superiority and be professorial enough that you can justify those nine years you spent in graduate school studying compiler optimizations only to get a job maintaining a failure-prone database driven web app.How to Get the Most Out of Your Eccentric Programmer/Genius
I recently posted about a set of programmer personality traits that I’d noticed.I was all set to write an informative post about HashSets today, but I'm not going to. Instead, I'm going to finally start what will be a new on-going series here on this blog. The series will cover the things you *shouldn't* do if you hold some sort of managerial stake in a software project.