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Actually, you do know (almost) without trying. Any person here that you would actually want to work with or start a company with would have told you that.

Has this approach ever worked for you or is this first time you've tried it? Not a positive or negative comment, although I assume "no". Just curious.

You!!! You guys!!! Clever. Let's have a drink and catch up.

I drink beers with people usually. Basically, I make a lot of high level friends / associates at every place I have worked or random meet ups and I do a lot of lunches or after work drinks to keep up with those people.

I usually spend at least one happy hour a week after work + one lunch a week with those types and then one or two lunches a week with current co workers and people closer to me that I consider super talent that I'd like to always stay in touch with.

I just drop random messages to folks saying "Hey it's been about year since we last chatted and it'd be awesome to learn about what you're working on and catch up in general. Do you have anytime for a lunch or pint after work in the next week or two?"

If you do stuff like that you'll get invited to other social gatherings and eventually you'll start meeting their friends and people they consider talented.

What I described above is actually work (I enjoy it though) and requires time and effort.

haha nice! Yeup! :-)

Umm it does if you know what the rates are to be there? Check back in 6 months and see how they do after their first round of churn?

BAM. +1

I haven't dug through their data or financials, but I work across the street from a wework and occasionally I go over and play some ping pong with friends. Their rent seems a little pricey, but it is ALWAYS packed with people in offices and at tables. I have multiple friends (3 or 4 different companies) that are all happily renting there. If other cities are anything like Portland I don't see how they are in trouble at all. Im actually glad wework has terms of service like this and gave them an 30 minute eviction notice.

TY. I hate all the paywall links I find on HN.

I care less about what fox news shows people vs what the jury gets to see in the courtroom. So the article has nothing to do with the legal side of things? Skewing police body camera footage for entertainment is definitely going to happen and that doesnt really bug me, but what does bug me is that somehow people think a jury would only see a 3 second clip without sound or any context in a court room.

You mean showing a couple seconds of a clip without any sound or context is how these cameras are going to be used?

There are.

I did this same exact thing for a short period, except I used our company admin (with her permission). I thought it would be neat to have a face for support via email and chat and if you called us you'd most likely be greeted by her as well.

It was hard to believe how many people wanted to chat, get a walk through of our product or have a call until they got handed off to a male in sales or support. So many no shows for meetings.

Technical Account Manager | www.Lytics.io |Portland, OR

Who we are:

Lytics is revolutionizing how marketers use data from all channels and customer interactions to build knowledge and guide customized experiences across web, mobile, email and social.

Who you are:

We're seeking a Technical Account Manager (TAM) who is passionate about the customer experience, data, and the future of marketing. This role bridges the gap between technical and non-technical and is frequently interacting with Development, Product, and Marketing groups, as well as the leadership from our largest clients. This position requires a product expert that can use their knowledge of a client’s data, vendors, and marketing objectives to help guide their technical and marketing teams through the implementation and continued use of Lytics’ products and services.

https://www.smartrecruiters.com/lytics/85689912-technical-ac...

ha! perfect. It's so interesting that I assume over all that was a negative comment from you, but so positive to me. My favorite leaders place bets like that! I'd rather believe in a leader and be a part of a team that all believe in the same idea so much that they accept that themselves or their comrades(Some with families!) jobs are on the line. But this means you have to be in a pretty transparent company.

If everyone doesn't work together, with a hard time constraint, to achieve the shared vision they believe in it seems really hard to do amazing things at any sort of market dominating speed.

I accept those bets happily.

Lytics (www.lytics.io) Portland, Oregon - Hiring all sorts: Solutions Consultants, Distributed Data engineers, Data Scientists. I'm looking specifically for a Solutions Consultant but if you're interested in another role please inquire as we would love to hear from you.

Lytics makes it possible for marketers to create comprehensive customer profiles across all touch points (mobile, social, web) and truly target their messages to increase results and improve customer experience. We are an early stage start-up in amazing Portland, Oregon.

The solution consultant role is a highly visible technical client facing role that partners with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and you will need to be great at communicating with the very technical to non technical spectrum. Solution consultants are experts in our solution and help our customers implement and use the technology. You will lead technical validations/proof of concepts, technical onboarding, solution design, and customer training/hand off.

You should have experience with:

- Javascript tagging and event collection implementation

- Web, mobile, email, and social data

- Advising customers about what types of data should be collected to support marketing and business use cases

- Helping onboard custom data collection, including csv, json files, export from dbs, upload to sftp/s3 or http api's.

- Helping customers set up other integrations or automated scripts to support marketing campaigns (eg: SendGrid, Mandrill, Mailgun, ExactTarget, Salesforce, Optimizely, etc.)

- Building repeatable processes and docs to help scale the onboarding and customer success teams

- Supporting the sales team, including sales calls, demos and solution design

- Providing ongoing product feedback and roadmap input as the voice of the customer to the Product/Engineering organization

Please reach out to jobs@lytics.io

Portland, Oregon - Urban Airship - We have a lot of jobs open but I am particularly looking for an Implementation Engineer. This role is a technical client facing role where development experience (especially mobile) will come in handy as well as an outstanding attitude toward customer experience. We're a small and growing team that work with Urban Airship's largest clients developing relationships with technical contacts to make sure they have success implementing any and all of our services. Here is a link to the job posting: http://www.jobscore.com/job_seeker/jobs/job_posting?job_id=d...

If you have any questions about the role please feel free to contact me at: davidw (at) urbanairship (dot) com

Dave

"that's what the 20s, for the smartest people, are actually about: watching people in power fuck up so you know what not to do when you're in charge. Eventually, you'll be in a position to do things properly. It might take a while."

I like this. That is exactly how I feel and it's great to read/hear about it outside of my head. :-)

MSM, I know it can be hard to see for many people but sometimes diving deeper into your box is the wrong approach. Your example is perfect. Someone went and took classes that were a "waste of time" and ended up 75% more efficient because they looked at something from a different view...even though they didn't become a chef. This is exactly how people need to be leading their companies.

All these comments about "no value" are hilarious. Honestly I dont think "serious programming" even matters. It's people learning, for example, that the 30 min daily process they do in excel can actually be a script that takes one second to run. The company is already seeing benefits to the culture and soon people will be thinking differently. That's a win.

"We're interested in optimizing Q&A around thought leaders and experts. Quora works well for finding the right answer to a question - we're interested in finding out a diversity of opinions." What you said there means everything to me and would have convinced me to spend more than 10 seconds on your site. What you said on your about page means nothing to me. "Askolo wants to create a space where knowledge is easily accessible. Users can use their Askolo accounts to find out more about others and to share their thoughts."

Ahh not as cool as I thought after reading this update:

Update: Sarah Taylor Sulick from the Smithsonian sez, "Unfortunately we have no plans to make 3D scans of our collection freely available for the public to print. The CNET story is a bit misleading on that point. Our 3-D team mentioned that we COULD go there theoretically, but as of right now it is not part of our plan. The reality is also that we have 137M objects in our collection and only 2 people working on this project. So we are no where near being able to scan everything and essentially never will be."