CNN recently wrote an article on NYC startups and I laughed when Nosh Petigara from 10gen (MongoDb) said, “we don’t have trouble hiring engineers.” When you are a 10gen, Hunch, bit.ly — i.e. when you have a strong technical lead (your anchor) already and an interesting technical problem, good computer scientists want to work for… Continue reading
Date Archives April 2011
One Lesson From Each
The other week I spoke and mentored at The Lean Startup Machine in New York, which was a ton of fun for everyone involved. I had a young entrepreneur come up and ask me an interesting question: “What was the #1 lesson from each of the companies you have been involved with?” It is always… Continue reading