Exclusive: There are lots of great summer internships at Silicon Valley startups. But top engineering students often pass them up for the money and name recognition companies like Google can provide. So Kleiner Perkins has partnered with InternMatch to attract top-flight students to its portfolio companies.… Read More »
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As millions of Americans grapple with unemployment, many technology companies are actually desperate to hire new people. Folks with skills such as software and web development are in high demand nowadays, especially in Silicon Valley. And startups are going to great lengths to lure them in. Read More »
There’s a wave of hiring taking place in Silicon Valley, with tech companies adding staff by the hundreds or even thousands. That’s good for the technology sector, and it’s good news if you’re unemployed. But it could make life even harder for plenty of struggling startups. Read More »
Finding and retaining talent — true talent — is damn hard in a startup. Some bosses, whether consciously or subconsciously, want sycophantic workers. They would never tell you that, even with a few drinks in them at a bar, but their private, even… Read More »
Our weekly roundup of posts you might have missed, but shouldn’t. 1) The 1st and 2nd Gospels of Sequoia Capital. We posted on these last week, following a nod form TechCrunch (thank you). Gospel 1: Elements of Sustainable Companies. Gospel 2: Writing A Business Plan.… Read More »
Editor’s Note: Our friend Trevor Stafford, Editor of the Canadian entrepreneurs’ network, Red Canary, recently authored this fun bit of satire to demonstrate why so many startup ‘new hire’ interviews are unsuccessful — often it’s because self-obsessed founders treat such meetings… Read More »
I love this post, by founder-blogger Scott Converse about his experience trying to find the right CEO to run his company, ClickCaster. Helpful as his investors are to him, Scott writes, it turns out that with respect to this particular challenge, they didn’t… Read More »
McKinsey blasted us again yesterday, this time with its foreboding “Special Collection: Coping with a downturn.” Every day the signs of our coming recession grow clearer, so it’s time to start rationing and stockpiling — or diversifying, depending on your business type. Only you can make… Read More »
Google has paid notoriously low salaries, in exchange for stock options, to its rank and file long since before the stock was north of $600 a share. Well, today’s Question of the Day is about such employee compensation, from a would-be founder named Alex. Alex would… Read More »
We’ve followed the ups and downs at electric car company, Tesla Motors, over the last year. We got hyped like everyone as the startup’s celebrity line-up and fattening coffers was chronicled across the blogosphere. (It’s $140 million in funding with… Read More »
As a Founder or a CEO, your job is to build a company that creates sustained value for its employees, customers and stakeholders. Essential to this is defining and living by a set of core values. Why? Because core values breed competitive advantage and sustained… Read More »
Google, which has been battling Facebook for talent recently, is facing an attack from another source. VMWare, the server and PC virtualization company that went public this summer, is hiring all the engineers it can find. Ann Winblad, a general partner at venture capital firm… Read More »
