Google Ventures Launches $10,000 Startup Referral Program For Employees. If you’re a Google employee and you know about a stealth startup that wants funding, you can pocket a cool $10,000. The Google Ventures team announced the new program at Google’s weekly all-hands “TGIF” meeting, earlier this afternoon. It’s pretty straightforward. If a Google employee knows about a startup that Google Ventures might be interested in, they fill out a form on an internal website. They state why they like the startup, and they need to be prepared to give a “warm introduction” to a key employee at the startup.
If Google Ventures invests, the employee that referred the startup gets the $10,000 in cash. It’s modeled on Google’s in house employee referral program, Google Ventures partners Bill Maris and David Krane tell me, although the payout is much higher for startup referrals. Within a few minutes after the meeting they’d received ten referrals, and most of the company is still unaware of the program. Kidding, kidding. After Critiquing Facebook, Google Researcher Paul Adams Joins It. Paul Adams, the Google user experience researcher who critiqued Facebook in a lengthy report over the summer, is leaving the search giant to join them.
His report is said to have accelerated the Groups product, which launched earlier this fall after Facebook went into “Lockdown” to finish it. Earlier today, he tweeted, “After ~4 years in the awesome Google UX team it’s time for a change + I’m excited to be joining Facebook in the New Year.” The move is a blow for Google as it undertakes a radical effort to counter Facebook’s growing influence across the web. In addition to a big social project led by Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz, the team the company acquired from Slide is also beginning to work on its own creation. Adams published a widely read report on the social network’s weaknesses five months ago, arguing that it didn’t do enough to help people manage the distinct social groups in their lives. “People have multiple facets of identity,” Adams wrote. Jobs, premier choix pour Google. En 2000, alors que le tout jeune moteur de recherche Google commençait à se frotter sérieusement à ses compétiteurs de l’époque, les investisseurs ont insisté auprès de Larry Page et Sergey Brin qu’il fallait à leur entreprise un PDG qui apporterait une « supervision adulte » à l’entreprise.
La version papier de Wired raconte cette aventure. John Doerr, « capital-risqueur », a arrangé des rendez-vous avec une demie-douzaine de CEO de la Silicon Valley, parmi lesquels des pointures comme Andy Grove (Intel), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), et d’autres. Seul hic : les deux co-fondateurs ne voulaient qu’une seule personne, Steve Jobs ! Ce dernier était revenu aux commandes d’Apple et était bien occupé à continuer le redressement de la société à la pomme. Doerr a donc réussi à persuader Page et Brin qu’il fallait oublier cette idée et leur a présenté Eric Schmidt, alors patron de Novell.
Il devint CEO de Google en 2001 (et rendra son tablier en avril à Larry Page). Source - Contenu anglais. Jean-Marc Tassetto (SFR) passe chez Google France. Après 13 années passées chez SFR, Jean-Marc Tassetto « Mr Marketing chez SFR » va rejoindre le géant de l'Internet Google France où il occupera le poste de directeur général d'ici trois ou quatre mois, selon le Blog de l'Express. « Sa nomination a été annoncée en comité de direction la semaine passée, puis à l'ensemble des salariés de Google France. ( ) Placé sous la direction de Carlo d'Asaro Biondo, vice-président Europe de Google, Jean-Marc Tassetto devra notamment se pencher sur le partage de la valeur entre les acteurs de l'Internet et les opérateurs de télécommunications qui veulent faire payer l'accès à leurs réseaux. » Il y a fort à parier que Jean-Marc Tassetto oeuvrera également pour imposer le système Android (OS mobile de Google) chez les opérateurs français.
Après tout, qui mieux que lui connaît parfaitement les demandes / besoins des opérateurs en matière de terminaux mobiles ? 15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid. A reader just asked us a question about Google interviews: "I have an interview - telephone - with an Engineering Recruiter at Google NY, for a Software Engineering position. Any tips, what should I expect, how should I prepare?
The good news is that Google is desperate for entrepreneurial talent. That's why the company keeps buying small startups. The bad news: Google prefers Ivy Leaguers. It cares about your GPA, even if you're in your 30s. Lucky for our reader, Seattle job coach Lewis Lin put together a list of 140 questions his clients have been asked by Google. We've selected the most challenging here. They are… Google 1999: All-Hands Meeting. What an amazing blast to the past. Google is a massive company today — burdened by corporate politics, layers of management, and countless legal battles — and it’s sometimes easy to forget its more humble beginnings just over a decade ago, when it wasn’t all that different from the startups we write about every day on TechCrunch.
But in the video above we get to jump back to December 1999 to witness a Google all-hands meeting led by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, when the startup had fewer than 60 employees. After some new employee introductions the meeting shifts to a birthday celebration — there’s silly string, singing, and an overwhelming sense that everyone there is just happy (or will be as soon as they get their cake). The video was recorded (and posted over a decade later) by Douglas Edwards, Google’s director of marketing and brand management from 1999 and 2005 who blogs about his time at the search giant at his site Xooglers.
Why Google needed Larry Page to take the helm. 8 Habits Of Highly Effective Google Managers. ++ From 20% of a Googler's time to Google Crisis Response. This is the latest post in our series profiling entrepreneurial Googlers working on products across the company and around the world. Speed in execution is important for any Google product team, but as we learned after the recent earthquakes in both Japan and New Zealand, it’s even more critical in crisis response. This post is an inside look at the efforts of our year-old Crisis Response team, and what they’re doing to make preparedness tools available to anyone at the click of a button. - Ed.
The Google Crisis Response Team came together in 2010 after a few engineers and I realized that we needed a scalable way to make disaster-related information immediately available and useful in a crisis. Until a little over a year ago, we responded to crises with scattered 20 percent time projects, but after the Haiti earthquake in January 2010 we saw the opportunity to create a full-time team that would make critical information more accessible during disaster situations.
Ten challenges facing Google’s new CEO Larry Page. Larry Page takes over Monday as chief executive of Google, one of the most successful tech companies of all time. As co-founder, Page has been instrumental in the company’s success from the very start. But the company must overcome a number of challenges in the years ahead, if it is to be all it can be. As he takes over from Eric Schmidt, Page has a lot of wind at his back. Google is one of the most impressive money-making machines in history with its strong search advertising business, which generated a lot of the company’s $8.44 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter. Google’s Android mobile operating system is going strong, and so is its YouTube property. But sharks have to keep swimming, and Silicon Valley companies have to keep moving, or they wind up being crushed, outwitted, or marginalized like Netscape, Silicon Graphics, or Sun Microsystems. 1) Deal with the growth of social networking giant Facebook. 2) Circumvent the obstacles that China is throwing in its path.