Matt_Mickiewicz

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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
To be perfectly honest, 87% of candidates who go through the process and take a job, go with a company OTHER than the one that made the highest offer. In fact, many more interview requests get rejected for "not interested in the company/ind
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Weird. We have couple hundred seed stage companies on DevAuc, including many YC Alumns. Typical offers are $90-$110K. I've never seen a $60K offer. Series A and B companies are typically able to start paying more "market" rates of $120K-$16
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Interesting arbitrage...
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Half the time there is no client... They are just luring you in, and once they have your resume, it gets spammed out to as many employers as the have in their address book. Your resume gets used as "bait" in order for them to find new clien
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Yeah, the incentives are really screwed up. Firms like Riviera Partners in SanFran have different tiers of clients. Some pay 33% on base salary, others 25%... guess what interviews you'll be pushed into first? If you pass, you probably won'
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
"Thank you" - From, The Internet.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Agreed. Way too many people start a company these days because they want "Founder", "CTO" or "CEO" title... rather than because they see a real need and want to solve a real problem. The fact that anybody with Google or Stanford on their re
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
It was actually on the Ruby meetup list... I was surprised how many recruiters where monitoring that group, how quickly they responded to the fake message (within 5 minutes), and how little care, thought or attention they paid when asking p
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Congrats guys!
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Sounds like they are re-living the lessons learned by Kozmo (anybody remember them?). Free, local delivery is a tough business, and people will absue it without minimums. Kozmo learned that customers would order a pack of gum... expecting f
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Based on the thousands of offers from hundreds of start-ups that I've seen DeveloperAuction, that is definitely a little bit on the low end for a "late stage" startup (Series B+?) company, but you're not horribly far off. You could probably
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Only 5%? That's cheap... you should have taken the fee model from collection agencies, and taken 20%+.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Correct, engineers get a portion of the fee that we charge employers.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
It will definitely work in London... but probably not in Arkansas or Wyoming.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Yep, so there's pretty good access/liquidity in this market. I don't necessarily think that camera lens rentals is "biggest player wins" either, unlike crowdsourcing graphic design (you go to the site with the most designers) or selling web
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Since you where collecting sign-ups, it would be really interesting to see registrations by marketing channel and calculate a CPA for each. In terms of building the "seller" or in this case, the "lens renter" side of the market, I'd probabl
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Too many smart people spending a whole lot of time, effort & cash solving frivolous problems.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Yes.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Nice to see so many familiar names on the Tech 30 under 30 list, congrats to Dan Siroker from Optimizely, Anthony from Kaggle and Darian. (Disclosure: I was on the list last year).
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Great read, if you pick the right market, it's easy to become profitable very, very quickly. In our case, we picked "Developer Recruiting in SF" as our initial market after years of personal experience dealing with incompetent recruiters, e
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Sign-up forms must die... great article by Luke that i often refer to: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/signupforms/ There's also a video version of it somewhere else. This is why Optimizely.com is so great, you can test drive their pro
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Congrats to Jameson & team!
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
3673 companies in the US raised VC money in 2011: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/vc-investing-soars-22-perce... 997 of these where Internet companies.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Unfortunately, anyone with an email address and a phone number can call themselves a recruiter. And because $15 billion in fees is up for grabs every year in the USA, annoying/dirty/spammy tactics are the norm, rather than the exception. Y
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Updated that as well. We're rolling out a re-design soon.
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Your accomplishments & resume where super impressive, you've been featured in Forbes, Engadget and numerous other media publications. You've published awesome security papers, spoken at conferences, etc. You definitely pass every possib
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Recruiting for telecommuting positions in general is a lot easier... it's getting talented people to show up in your office in the SF Bay Area or NYC that's usually the bigger challenge and where the greatest supply-demand imbalance lies, a
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
We had a lot of LA Employers onboard, but no LA Developers. It's a lot easier to recruit local talent vs. convincing people to pack up and move -- especially if they own a house, have family/partners/friends or other strong ties to their cu
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by Matt_Mickiewicz 14y ago
Hit refresh on our homepage :) That acceptance criteria was used for the first auction, but we're opening it up now.

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