How Do I Quickly Hire People For My Funded Startup
I often hear from founders of startups that have received substantial investor funding, but who are confounded by the challenge of making their business plan scale with respect to growing their team. They have a ton of money and a great product, but people are not simply hopping on board when they post their job [...]
Startup Hours
Washington area engineers are generally no different from those in other places, but if you put many them next to the people who left their hometowns to be in Silicon Valley like Max Levchin I bet you would find a subtle difference: intense determination and tenacity. There is something to be said about people with [...]
A Startup Should Not Be A House of Cards
Successful startup founders push the envelope, but some just push their luck and the good will of others to the breaking point. Don’t build your startup like a house of cards hoping that someday some way it will all suddenly change because odds are you are going to cause yourself and everyone else major headaches [...]
The Hard Line Between Hacker and Serious Founder
This past week we hosted the first Social Matchbox Startup Garage Series event in Tysons Corner. The event was inspired by our first events held back in 2007 and 2008 where there was a very loose standard applied to determine who was allowed to present. The open mic format we use for the Startup Garage [...]
Is Your Web App Exposing Users To Unecessary Risks?
All too often when I am talking to programmers working on projects, I hear them talk about testing like it is a burden. The idea that web application development is an iterative process is a really good way of looking at application development and saying that what you are doing is a work in progress [...]
Keep Your Eye On The Ball
This morning I had a conversation with an active participant in the startup community here in the Washington area. We talked about life, places, startups, and eventually even the startup community. About ten percent of the time we spent involved talking about building startup products. At some point this hit me and we discussed focusing [...]
Social Matchbox Open Mic & Speed Dating For Geeks Returns to Tysons Corner
The event brings together members of the DC Startup community including startup founders, developers, marketers, designers, investors, and others who work for or aspire to work for startups. This is one event where it is safe to tell people you are looking for sweat equity and a great opportunity to get in on a [...]
