A new global study, ‘Mobility, Performance and Engagement’ sponsored by Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company,and executed by the Economist Intelligent Unit (EIU) has established a measurable link between ‘more mobile-first’ working environments, and an increase in employee engagement, proving that CIOs can drive increased business performance through well developed …
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M&A success: How Talent is Bought and Sold | First Round Review
Mike Brown‘s date stared at him in shock as he told her he’d have to cut their evening short after only 30 minutes. She must have assumed the rendezvous had gone terribly wrong, but that wasn’t it. Brown — a veteran of both Facebook and Twitter, where he built their …
Read More »Presentation: The Wealthfront Equity Plan: A Plan that Works for Employers & Employees | First Round Review
Andy Rachleff is President and CEO of Wealthfront, a software-based financial advisor. Prior to Wealthfront, Rachleff co-founded and was general partner of Benchmark Capital. He also teaches courses on technology entrepreneurship at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Follow him on Twitter @arachleff. The equity culture among young technology companies is …
Read More »VIDEO: 42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy | First Round Review
In his quarter century of working in Silicon Valley at such companies as Apple, @Home, and Google, CMC Alum Jonathan Rosenberg has had ample opportunity to watch successful people in action. He shares his observations on what makes great people tick and draw conclusions on how a liberal arts education …
Read More »From 64 to 1: The Countdown That Could Change the Way You Hire | First Round CTO Summit
Eric Feng made a lot happen at Hulu in just three years. As the first senior executive the company hired, he played a pivotal role in the development of Hulu.com, the desktop app, distribution and advertising. He served as spokesperson and even coded large part of the site’s front-end himself. And …
Read More »Speed as a Habit: All else being equal, the fastest company in any market will win | First Round Review | Upstart
This article is by Dave Girouard, CEO of personal finance startup Upstart, and former President of Google Enterprise Apps. He’s well known for building Google’s enterprise apps division into a $1B+ global business. Here he shares his tips for making speed fundamental to your company. I’ve long believed that speed is …
Read More »Why this Company Retains 95% of Its Employees? | First Round Review
The last 10 years of Joel Grossman’s life started with a seemingly casual introduction through a business school friend to Location Labs CEO Tasso Roumeliotis. “I was getting my MBA and looking for a Bay Area tech internship, but I wanted to work for a company with a business model …
Read More »Survey Report: Global Developer Hiring Landscape | Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow, the online forum on coding and programming released their Global Developer Hiring Landscape Survey & Report, where they asked over 56,000 coders in 173 countries to share who they are, where they work, what they build, what they look for in a job and their favourite technologies. 1. …
Read More »Contracting is the way of the future
According to research conducted by the Professional Representation Network, the UK’s top contractors earn three times the average UK wage. The average annual earnings of the top 100,000 contractors is around £80,000 per annum, compared to the national average income of £27,000. They are the highest paid contractors in the …
Read More »WHITE PAPER & INFOGRAPHICS: In the Minds of IT Professionals – Wants and needs from their employers |Kelly Services Research
As IT professionals shift their own professional preferences and priorities, they are constantly reshaping the labor market, and transforming the workplace as new arrangements and styles of work emerge. Take this overview from the most recent workforce preferences survey, and use it to your advantage. Download Report IT: Get On …
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