hiring

What Now? Hiring.

Peter Levine, GP, Andreessen Horowitz in Voices on January 19 at 5:40 pm PT

Hiring takes planning and time, and the process is often ad hoc or simply nonexistent. Don’t make hiring a batting average.

As Weak Q4 Earnings Loom, Yahoo Freezes Hiring and Also Contemplates Layoffs

Kara Swisher in News on January 19 at 5:10 am PT

More not-good news from Silicon Valley’s troubled giant.

Liveblogging the New Yahoo CEO Call: You Might Want to Refrain From Cussing, Scott!

Kara Swisher in News on January 4 at 7:01 am PT

Mind your P’s and Q’s and Y’s too!

LinkedIn: Have a Creative, Dynamic, Problem-Solving New Year

Lauren Goode in Social on December 14, 2011 at 8:15 am PT

Ah, corporate buzzwords. They’re enough to kill the forward-looking momentum in any strategic, synergistic meeting. And yet they’re used all the time in LinkedIn profiles.

What Now? Firing a Key Executive: Possible Outcomes.

Peter Levine, GP, Andreessen Horowitz in Voices on December 9, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT

I was fired from my first job as a programmer after college, and I’ve agonized over terminations ever since.

What Now? Firing a Key Executive.

Peter Levine, GP, Andreessen Horowitz in Voices on December 7, 2011 at 10:45 am PT

You’re the CEO of a tech start-up and you’ve recently hired an engineering VP, but now you realize you’ve made a big mistake. What should you do?

“Great” is Tough To Pick Out of the “Good” Crowd

Bryan Roberts, Partner, Venrock in Voices on December 1, 2011 at 10:46 am PT

One of the oldest adages in start-ups, for entrepreneurs and VCs alike, is that “the key to success is the quality of the people.” My experience supports this notion unequivocally.

Google, Amazon Hiring for “The Cloud”

Damian Ghigliotty, Reporter, FINS in News on October 14, 2011 at 10:53 am PT

Five years ago, when Adam Selipsky started marketing Amazon’s Web-based storage, computing and database services, now commonly known as “the cloud,” a lot of executives would ask him, “What does this have to do with selling books?”

Management Quality Assurance

Ben Horowitz, Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz in Voices on October 5, 2011 at 1:45 pm PT

We can all agree that people are paramount, yet nobody in tech seems to be on the same page with what the people organization — Human Resources — should look like.