‘How to hire’ is the new ‘how to conserve runway’
Thanks for reading Startups Weekly. Want the weekly digest in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. When COVID-19 first began to infect the world, my interviews with venture capitalists all somewhat fit into the same mold. Investors would tell m.....»»
MediaTek keen on enriching design talent pool
MediaTek has expanded its recruitment scale in Taiwan, looking to hire an additional over 2,000 design engineers to support its business expansion goals......»»
‘How to hire’ is the new ‘how to conserve runway’
Thanks for reading Startups Weekly. Want the weekly digest in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. When COVID-19 first began to infect the world, my interviews with venture capitalists all somewhat fit into the same mold. Investors would tell m.....»»
Walmart Seeks Crypto Expert To Oversee Digital Currency Push
Walmart is looking to hire a cryptocurrency expert to develop a blockchain strategy, joining a growing number of major corporations exploring the viability of digital currencies such as Bitcoin. From a report: The position will be responsible for "de.....»»
What happens when Wall Street falls out of love with your sector?
Either the neoinsurance companies' long-term models will come to fruition thanks to large cash balances providing runway to prove their point, or Wall Street is correct -- they were always overvalued. It’s been an awful week for publi.....»»
Dear Sophie: Can I hire an engineer whose green card is being sponsored by another company?
I want to extend an offer to an engineer who has been working in the U.S. on an H-1B. Her current employer is sponsoring her for an EB-2 green card. Can we take over her green card process? Sophie Alcorn Contributor.....»»
The architect behind Nvidia RTX DLSS and ray tracing now works at Intel
Intel isn't slowing down in the graphics department, and a recent key hire shows a bright future for the division......»»
Parched Mendocino, California, implores guests to save water
Tourists flock by the thousands to the coastal town of Mendocino for its Victorian homes and cliff trails, but visitors this summer are also finding public portable toilets and signs on picket fences pleading: "Severe drought. Please conserve water.".....»»
Extra Crunch roundup: Influencer marketing, China’s tech clampdown, drafting growth teams
Before you hire a marketing consultant who doesn't understand your products or commit to a CMO who has several years of experience — but none in your sector — consider influencer marketing. Before you hire a marketing consultant who doe.....»»
Why it makes good business sense to hire people with disabilities
Managers sometimes assume that hiring employees who live with disabilities will be more expensive. They worry that these employees will perform at a lower level, be absent more often, need expensive accommodations and will then quit......»»
How to hire and structure a growth team
I’m not here to sell you on why you need a growth team, but I will point out that product-led businesses with a growth team see dramatic results — double the median free-to-paid conversion rate. Sam Richard Contribut.....»»
Which person should you hire: A growth hacker or a digital marketer?
"Growth hacking is great to kickstart growth, test new opportunities and see what tactics work. Marketeers should be there to continue where the growth hackers left off." Ward van Gasteren embraces the “growth hacker” term, despite the.....»»
Monitoring shows protected areas safeguard bird populations
Federal and state mandates to conserve 30% of the nation's lands and waters by 2030 are intended to protect biodiversity. But do protected areas actually work?.....»»
Disciplines must be integrated to successfully conserve biodiversity
Innovation arises through the transfer of research results into practice......»»
Facebook Researchers Hope To Bring Together Two Foes: Encryption and Ads
Facebook is bulking up a team of artificial intelligence researchers, including a key hire from Microsoft, to study ways of analyzing encrypted data without decrypting it, the company confirmed to the Information. From the report: The research could.....»»
The MKT1 interview: Growth marketing in 2021, hiring versus outsourcing and more
Excerpts from our Twitter Spaces chat with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich on the growth marketing industry, when to hire a marketer and when a startup should consider outsourcing. Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich are the.....»»
The MKT1 interview: Growth marketing in 2021, hiring versus outsourcing, and more
Excerpts from our Twitter Spaces chat with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich on the growth marketing industry, when to hire a marketer and when a startup should consider outsourcing. Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich are the.....»»
"Disinformation for Hire" is Becoming a Booming Industry
Sunday the BBC reported YouTube influencers were offered money to spread vaccine misinformation. But according to the New York Times, that's just the tip of the iceberg. "The scheme appears to be part of a secretive industry that security analysts.....»»
JLL, Khosla lead Jones’ $12.5M Series A for real estate vendor compliance
The New York-based commercial real estate startup is curating a marketplace of pre-approved vendors for tenants and property managers to find and hire the people they need in a compliant way. Commercial real estate tenants and property ma.....»»
How pitch training can help startups get their story right
When you hire a marketing consultant, you don’t necessarily expect to wind up discussing your life’s purpose. Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him.....»»
Extra Crunch roundup: Think like a VC, CockroachDB EC-1, handle your stock options
Don't wait until it's too late to build your early-stage marketing team — but don't hire too hastily, either. Ants and camels are famously resilient, but when it was time to select a name for a startup that offers open-source, cloud-based.....»»