http://www.grid7.com/archives/93_faw-4-joe-kraus-of-excite.html Build something. BIGGER. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:06:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://www.grid7.com/archives/93_faw-4-joe-kraus-of-excite.html#comment-5953 Sat, 26 May 2007 23:06:54 +0000 http://www.grid7.com/archives/93_faw-4-joe-kraus-of-excite.html#comment-5953 [...] Kaufer esentially echoes Joe Kraus’ advice on hiring: “”Getting the right people - especially in that first dozen - is so much more important than getting the req filled. Unfortunately that slows down the hiring process a lot, which slows your growth a lot, which is how I circle back to say, ‘In the next company, I’d hope to have a recruiter on board within the first half a dozen people to help get the right next 12 people… [hiring the best] actually makes recruiting a little easier, because you come in, you meet the people, ‘Man, you’ve got a bunch of sharp people here.’” [...] […] Kaufer esentially echoes Joe Kraus’ advice on hiring: “”Getting the right people - especially in that first dozen - is so much more important than getting the req filled. Unfortunately that slows down the hiring process a lot, which slows your growth a lot, which is how I circle back to say, ‘In the next company, I’d hope to have a recruiter on board within the first half a dozen people to help get the right next 12 people… [hiring the best] actually makes recruiting a little easier, because you come in, you meet the people, ‘Man, you’ve got a bunch of sharp people here.’” […]

]]> http://www.grid7.com/archives/93_faw-4-joe-kraus-of-excite.html#comment-5717 Sat, 12 May 2007 03:32:21 +0000 http://www.grid7.com/archives/93_faw-4-joe-kraus-of-excite.html#comment-5717 [...] Marimba was another company that started based on a team and not an idea. Much like the Excite guys, on day one they had zero idea of what they wanted to do. It was four people that had left the Java development team of Sun in 1996 to go do something of their own. They went and secured office space before they had any idea of what they were going to build. [...] […] Marimba was another company that started based on a team and not an idea. Much like the Excite guys, on day one they had zero idea of what they wanted to do. It was four people that had left the Java development team of Sun in 1996 to go do something of their own. They went and secured office space before they had any idea of what they were going to build. […]

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