katpas

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by katpas 10y ago
I wrote the post, as some people have picked up in the comments, the one year is a reference to the minimum time I wanted to spend working for someone at a start-up. I used the word build as when you're an early employee that's th
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by katpas 10y ago
Find a company that you want to work for and then go on the site and read through the company blog. Hopefully those posts will be authored by someone and not just the 'company'. Then find that person on social media (twitter/
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by katpas 10y ago
Developers will see value in a product if they use it or see it being used and realise it could improve their work. Less about 'perception' of value. More, is this something that will help me enough that it's worth the time o
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by katpas 10y ago
What are you trying to teach them? I went through a coding school called Founders & Coders, one of our one week projects was to make a stack overflow clone. We really enjoyed it.
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by katpas 10y ago
A16z have just released a podcast on this exactly > https://overcast.fm/+BlzEI52II
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by katpas 10y ago
The best thing I've ever read on coming up with a sales commission structure is this article by Lars Dalgaard > http://a16z.com/2015/07/23/sales-compensation-beware-you-get...
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by katpas 11y ago
Interesting, can you give an example?
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by katpas 11y ago
"The problem for some people who haven't found it useful is most recruiters only target the young developers who look like they will be easy placements." This would explain why I seem to get more add requests/inmails tha
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by katpas 11y ago
I hate using it. I’m a Junior Dev and I get about 10x the amount of recruiter and random adds than I did at my last job finding start-up dealflow for an investment platform. The issue is they built a revenue model that rewards quantity over
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How I got my first startup job(medium.com)
2 points by katpas 11y ago|0 comments
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by katpas 11y ago
Thanks! Black Swan by Taleb has been recommended to me before, will make it my next read.
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Start-up Book List(medium.com)
2 points by katpas 11y ago|2 comments