"Serious question: I know he's the Woz, but is there any other reason that we care about his opinion?"
No offense but I am almost certain, you will not be asking this question if Woz was praising Apple and dissing Microsoft.
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No offense but I am almost certain, you will not be asking this question if Woz was praising Apple and dissing Microsoft.
If you are targeting developers from US or Canada, you are going to have issues with passports and all other travel complications like shots (vaccines), visa's etc. Unless, if you do it in Hawaii you will not have any of the above issues.
Great idea nonetheless. Good luck with everything.
In fact, everything that is related to Scoble "personally" is public. You want his direct email, direct phone, cell phone etc, you have it.
Here is something I pulled out of Wikipedia regarding his relationship with Nancy Reagan. Might give some perspective on his letter to his son.
"During his presidency they were reported to frequently display their affection for one another; one press secretary said, "They never took each other for granted. They never stopped courting." He often called her "Mommy" she called him "Ronnie". He once wrote to her, "Whatever I treasure and enjoy ... all would be without meaning if I didn't have you." When he was in the hospital in 1981, she slept with one of his shirts to be comforted by his scent. In a letter to U.S. citizens written in 1994, Reagan wrote "I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.... I only wish there was some way I could spare Nancy from this painful experience," and in 1998, while Reagan was stricken by Alzheimer's, Nancy told Vanity Fair, "Our relationship is very special. We were very much in love and still are. When I say my life began with Ronnie, well, it's true. It did. I can't imagine life without him."
If I were you, I might change the title of your post to be more specific on the type of recruiters you are referring to.
Majority of Facebook users (35 - 45 yr old females and older) are not the crowd who like to install or capable of installing a new browser or even a new Firefox or Chrome toolbar without the help of GeekSquad or their nerdy nephew.
The other majority are tech users who are already on Firefox or Chrome and the last thing they want is another browser or let Facebook monitor all the websites they are visiting (although this is already happening in some levels)
Yes, if you are small startup, it is possible. But imagine companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, Cisco etc with over 1,000 positions per month. Add cost overrun. Add team members taking time out of their regular work to manage the temporary projects. And plus, this model will not work if the candidate is currently working elsewhere.
Great concept but not practical if you are large company.
1. It takes 3 - 4 steps to get to your list page (depending on where you are on FB) 2. It is buried deep inside Friends page 3. List is not used anywhere on FB except Friends page, making it very useless.
Google + on the other hand -
1. Takes 1 1/2 step to put your friends in a circle. The 1/2 is the drag and drop. 2. It is right smack in front of your face. 3. Notice there is no Friends or Followers page on G+? It is the Circle page. 4. Circle is used more than just for categorizing your friends. You can use it on your stream and it is displayed on the left side of your stream. On Facebook, Groups are displayed on the left of your newsfeed, which is one of the worst mistakes Facebook has done.
Summary - To add your friends to a 'Circle' on Facebook, you can either:
1. Create a list, which takes about 3 - 4 steps and hit a dead end street 2. Create a group, which takes about 5 - 7 steps.
And you wonder why people are going gaga over Circles (1 1/2 steps)
Solo Backend Developer = Remote Anywhere=OK
Backend Developer with a team = Remote within the city= Possible; Remote outside of city=Challenging; Remote International=Hell No;
Front End Developer = Alway prefer in-house; Remote (depending on how good they are) within or outside city=Possible; Remote International = Hell No
Front End Developer with a team = Almost alway prefer in-house; Remote (depending on how good they are) within or outside city=Challenging; Remote International=Hell No;
Run or hang up.
Yes, Larry and Sergey created something simple. But they had a vision what they want to do with it and the potential of what they were working on. Same thing with Zuckerberg. Yes, he created a simple networking site for Harvard and but he also had a vision. Most of them were recorded in his diary, i.e photo sharing etc.
If you create a small product without a vision, it will remain a small product and may not go anywhere. But a small product with a great vision have the potential to take you to the next level. Now a huge clunky product with an enormous vision? That is a recipe for disappointment.
Why? A lot of Q/A startups come and go and personally nobody cares if yet another new one shows up.
When you pay $250 an hour for a major consulting firm, you get $50 worth of consultant, and $200 worth of "Nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM/Accenture/CGI/Thoughtworks."
The assumption above is somewhat flawed. Here is why.
Most large companies have department budgets, project budgets etc and are usually sensible enough not a pay $250 for a huge team of developers etc. Most of the time, they hire a couple of devs at that rate. And usually when they bring in contractors, these contractors work with an existing team of in-house developers, project leads, PM's. Very rarely, they bring in a whole team of consultants/developers to run the whole show within the company. If they do that, the company better fire the whole IT or software department.
So it is ludicrous to think that when a project fails, the blame should go to the consultant or to the choice of the consulting co. and that is why people choose to use 'the big 4" to be safe. That assumption is flawed. Like i said, consultants usually work with a team of in-house devs, leads, PM's etc. So it wrong to think that your head is on the chopping block because of a small number of consultants working on the project or the consulting company that you choose to bring in. If the project fails, it is mostly due to mismanagement of the project by whoever is responsible. Not the small number of consultants or consulting company you choose to bring in.
That is one important factor that makes startups in Toronto and Vancouver very unattractive. Most Silicon Valley investor invest money in your startup based on the fact that you are going to be within an hour distance away. It is easier for them to manage, especially when they have multiple investments. And that is why Brian can't easily just take the funding and move to Vancouver or Toronto and set up shop.
And I haven't even started talking about the difference between Canada - SFO/Mountain View with regards to talent pool and networking.
The point is, in general and this applies to 'most' companies (although not all), if you want your startup to be successful, you move to Silicon Valley. The difference is absolutely unbelievable.
- Put it on a table. Include how many years you have been working on a specific skill. It will be helpful to list when was the last time you used that skill. So that is the first cut.
- After going through the skills section, we look at the Employment history and what you actually did with those skills that you listed. Then you get a telephone interview and possibly invitation to an in-person interview.
You are not going to get into the interview list if the HR person does not know what you are skilled at. Trust me, they are not going to use the interview as a discovery session. They don't have time for that, especially when there are other candidates who were clear in displaying their skill sets.
As far as spending $125k on domain names, he could have created at least 2 - 3 killer apps for that price, especially with his marketing influence.