Wanted: Consultants Who Care
Earlier today I got a call from an East Coast startup founder who is frustrated with their outsourcing experiences. They raised some Triple F cash and put it towards an offshore developer. That sucked so they put more of it towards two onshore developers. They aren’t sure if that is working so they are about [...]
Mastering Job Description Copy Is Hard Work
Writing a job description can seem like a simple enough task. You write a summary, list out responsibilities, add in a list of essential qualifications and skills, a blurb about the company, and details about how to apply for the job. So why is it that some jobs get tons of responses and others get [...]
The Price of An Aquisition To A User
Right now I’m reading my signed copy of Chris Anderson’s book ‘Free: The Future of A Radical Price’ which is fairly interesting. Having been in the startup space for a while I’ve tried to learn as much as possible about how startups monetize free websites. Interestingly, I had a conversation with a sales guy from [...]
No Brilliant Jerks!
Every company has something to say about their culture from an employer to candidate perspective. For some it is that they’ve got an environment full of smart peers, for others it is that they emphasize fun. Netflix took the time to sketch theirs. I love the part about no brilliant jerks. Great stuff that every [...]
Startup Metrics
At this weekend’s BarCamp I managed to miss my own discussion (it was part of the last flight of presentations that got cancelled due to time management issues that I will not go into, and both of Jared Goralnick’s presentations. The reason I missed one of his presentations was because it was a talk about [...]
Playing It Safe While Job Hunting
People often take for granted how interconnected people are these days. We share our daily routines with each other on Twitter, Facebook and through a myriad of other social media outlets. We also pick up the phone now and then too.
I’m constantly amazed at how many people bad mouth the people they work with, for [...]
Reasonable Disclosure on Resumes
Is this you or someone you know?
The number of resumes finding their way into my inbox has been climbing over the last few weeks. I haven’t decided whether this is a result of new found hope on the part of job seekers, the long tail of discussions about networking as part of the job search, [...]
Is News Corp The Anti-Social Media Company?
Check out this story from BBC:
‘Murdoch may block Google searches‘
“Mr Murdoch’s News Corp had previously said it would start charging online customers across all its websites.
He believes that search engines cannot legally use headlines and paragraphs of news stories as search results.”
This sounds remniscint to when Craigslist went out of their way to stop job [...]
Featured DC Area Web Developer & Web Designer Jobs
[If your team is hiring or you know one who is please make sure they share their jobs on Jobmatchbox.com too and I'll re-post them here too.]
Astrum Solar, Columbia, MD, Lead Developer / Senior LAMP Engineer
http://digg.com/u1FiWV
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, PHP Web Developer, Washington, DC.
http://digg.com/u1FeIZ
staffmagnet, Lead Web Developer (platform agnostic), Montgomery County, [...]
The Functional Startup Founder’s Dilemma
If you have ever attended one of our Social Matchbox events you know that the playing field in the DC Startup Commmunity is anything but equal. You’ve got people who are riding on seed and angel investments courtesy of friends and family who contributed during the FFF (the “Friends, Family and Fools” stage of fundraising). [...]
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