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Medical Research 2.0
I recently returned from the TED conference -- an annual conference that, as they describe it, "brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers…" The speakers at this conference both...
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Design+Startup: A Chat with Sahil Lavingia, Founder of Gumroad
As we gear up for the next Design+Startup with IDEO this week in New York (the event is sold out, but we will be letting about 20-30 people in off the waitlist tomorrow morning — so if design is your...
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Design+Startup: Eric Fisher, Social Design Strategist
Eric Fisher worked on product design at some of the most design-conscious companies in the world, including Apple and Facebook (where he created the social design guidelines - check it out here here )....
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Hack+Startup: Mike Nolet, Founder and CTO at AppNexus
At Hack+Startup Brooklyn Beta Edition, Mike Nolet, Co-Founder and CTO at AppNexus talks DevOps and how to overcome difficult processes at scale like deployment and infrastructure. Mike Nolet is the CTO...
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Hack+Startup with Facebook: Joe Carrafa of Etsy
Joe Carrafa (@joetastic), is a Senior Engineer Manager at Etsy where he leads the Marketplace Operations Team. Joe has been involved in the creation of many of the company’s internal tools and in this...
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Advice for Designers Who Want to be Founders: Eoghan McCabe, Founder and CEO...
Eoghan McCabe (@EoghanMcCabe) is the CEO of Intercom, a new kind of CRM and messaging platform. Before starting up, McCabe was a freelance designer and co-founder of a creative agency. In this...
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How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year
At First Round Capital, we spend a lot of time and resources supporting our technical leadership from across our 170+ companies. Click through to the First Round Capital Review to read more...
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Founders win by creating more moments of truth
The other day I was lucky enough to witness a moment of truth – the moment when an entrepreneur gets to face the market and see if they are right. The best founders relentlessly pursue these moments...
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“Value yourself and only stay at a company if they love you” Why this...
Morgan Knutson has been a designer, thinker, and doer for over a decade: first as a designer-activist for nonprofits, then as a creative at Google where he was responsible for the Google+ overhaul, and...
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How Stripe built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams
Stripe, the payments company that makes it simple to accept payments on the web has quietly been amassing one of the strongest engineering teams in Silicon Valley. In this First Round Capital CTO...
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Why firing brilliant assholes is required to build a great engineering culture
Joe Stump is the co-founder of attachments.me, Sprint.ly and SimpleGeo – and ex-Lead Architect at Digg. In this First Round CTO Summit Talk, Joe shares how to build a great engineering culture. He...
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Why Yammer believes the traditional engineering organizational structure is dead
Kris Gale, VP of Engineering at Yammer, argues the key to building fast at scale lies in small teams. He explores intricacies of organizational design in engineering and explains how making...
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What founders need to know about building management teams before it’s too late
Eric Vishria is the CEO and Co-Founder of RockMeIt (backed by First Round Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Accel Partners) and previously VP of Product at Hewlett Packard and VP of...
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How old magazines and Lamborghinis inform Flipboard’s design process and...
Before joining Flipboard, Didier Hilhorst co-founded and designed IntoNow, the “Shazam for TV”, and contributed at IDEO as an interaction designer. Now, Hilhorst is a part of the Product Design team at...
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The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer
Discuss on Hacker News In the fall of 2012, after reading about how Elaine Wherry set up a recruiter honeypot, we knew we had to invite her to our CTO Summit to tell us all the inside story - so here...
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Why Every Startup Should Pair Program
If there’s a company out there who knows “software development”, it’s Pivotal Labs. Edward Hieatt and his colleagues at Pivotal come from the agile school of development, and in their client work have...
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Keith Rabois on the role of a COO, how to hire and why transparency matters
Keith Rabois has helped build some of the most important companies in Silicon Valley including PayPal, LinkedIn and Square. In this session from First Round Capital CEO Summit 2013, Rabois shares what...
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Lessons Learned from Bill Gross' 35 IPOs/Exits and 40 Failures
Discuss on Hacker News As the founder of Idealab, Bill Gross has advised and helped fund more than 100 companies, been involved with 300 rounds of financing of more than $3.5 billion and 35 successful...
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Rands on how to make meetings suck less
Discuss on Hacker News Michael Lopp (aka Rands) is a director at Palantir, an author of a number of books on software engineering and management best practices, as well as an ex-manager of the Mac OSX...
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Founder of Pandora on lessons from near dot com bust to billion dollar IPO
Discuss on Hacker News In 1999, Tim Westergren, a long-time musician, started Savage Beast Technologies, with the mission of connecting artists with their audiences and helping people discover new...
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