Farewell, App Academy. Hello, Airbnb. (Part II)

(Note: this is the second part of this story. You can read the first part here.) Despite the rejection from 23AndMe, I kept pushing. I applied to the all the big hiring websites.Hired rejected me from their platform. I got no bites anywhere on AngelList or LinkedIn—not even cold e-mails from recruiters. Nothing from WhiteTruffle or SmartHires. Not a breath of interest anywhere. [...]

September 23rd, 2016|Categories: Techy Talky|

How Startup Options (and Ownership) Works

One of the things that struck me most during our recent pieces on startup employee option plans is how things that impact the value of those options aren’t well understood, even if communicated or known at the onset. Many people reported feelings of a sort of “sticker shock” (or reverse!) on leaving their first startup. Meanwhile, founders genuinely [...]

September 23rd, 2016|Categories: Venture Corner|

The Airbnb engineer who got a $250,000 starting-pay package shares his tips on negotiating job offers

Haseeb Qureshi is an Airbnb engineer who drew a lot of attention last spring for his blog post explaining how he negotiated a $250,000 starting-pay package from an original $120,000 offer. He’s been continually documenting his advice and tips for how others can do the same and just published a lengthy, detailed post on how to [...]

September 23rd, 2016|Categories: Global News|

Spin nano-systems result in new type of quantum bits

The rapid progress that has been sweeping the field of crystal growth and related device technology is opening doors. Perhaps nowhere is the effect of this evolution being felt more than in the development of ultra-small structures whose material properties can be controlled on the nanoscale. The reason for this development: because solid-state nano-structures possess unique [...]

September 23rd, 2016|Categories: Techy Talky|
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