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Re: PyQuery over BeautifulSoup

Anil — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:42:46 -0000

Re: PyQuery over BeautifulSoup

Dori Stein — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:04:47 -0000

I suggest you read about how to compare and choose web scraping tools
http://www.fornova.net/blog/?p...

Re: Joining a Startup Out of College is Hard

Jacob Chadwick — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:13:18 -0000

It's hard to start you own company right out of college, when you have worked at a crappy job the past 5 years and finally are given this chance to work somewhere 'real'.

Re: Joining a Startup Out of College is Hard

Nav — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:38:29 -0000

I agree with Azeem. I would love to see a rotational program for undergrads (sophomores), 3 summers, 3 startups ... then eventually a full-time position based on performance. A number of my classmates (including myself) that were into technology ended up pursuing careers in Wallstreet. When the market imploded, we migrated back into technology/start-ups.

End of year bonuses have become past tense ... options in a Foursquare / Venmo / ? ..not so much.

Re: Joining a Startup Out of College is Hard

My Next — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:05:09 -0000

Would really like to see more people starting their own start up straight out of college before they end up bogged down in the work cycle. Guess this is the problem with forcing students into debt for their education =[

Re: Joining a Startup Out of College is Hard

Jonas Huckestein — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:58:44 -0000

Recently I got stuck in a so-called "career training" with some of the smartest college students at UC Berkeley. Topics ranged from when to best do internships in the ABC industries to what line spacing to use in a resume. It was atrocious. Startups were obviously not mentioned.

I wish college kids knew more about how awesome and fulfilling it can be to work in a startup or create their own! Way to go, Andreessen Horowitz :)

Re: Joining a Startup Out of College is Hard

durbin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:44:01 -0000

I didn't mean to stereotype finance people, I meant I don't want to work with anyone looking for "brand-name resume builders".

Re: Joining a Startup Out of College is Hard

azeem — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:26:57 -0000

Also, I know a great number of phenomenal companies that have been started and built by former ibankers/traders/consultants, as do you I imagine, but maybe you don't realize it. SecondMarket (Barry Silbert; used to work at my old firm!), PayPal (Peter Thiel was on Credit Suisse's bond trading desk), Amazon (Jeff Bezos was a VP @ DE Shaw), and so forth and so on. I'd love to work with these "types [of] people", personally!

Re: Joining a Startup Out of College is Hard

azeem — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:23:11 -0000

Sure I can, I've hired interns. Is it that different?

Also, who's "shoving"? I'm talking about startups that have a need; instead of recruiting on their own (which they are just terrible @ because they don't have the time), recruit through their investors.

If a 22 year old is looking to join my company for 4 months in a rotational program, and he/she can get good work done, this is the same as an internship in my mind. And if we like him/her enough, we'll just keep him/her if the fit is mutual. Really don't know that this is as big a deal as you might think.

Re: Joining a Startup Out of College is Hard

durbin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:21:14 -0000

The part of working at a startup that I enjoy most is not working with I-bank/management consulting type people. My favorite part of your blog post: "a rotational program between Sequoia’s portfolio companies". Hilarious.

Can you imagine Sequoia coming to Sergei and Larry, "Look, you guys have a great thing going here, but since you're one of our portfolio companies, we have this great Junior BD guy that we want to shove on you. He doesn't want to be hired by you because you are nobodies and when he name drops the company he's working for at a party no one will know who you are. You understand right? Oh, and by the way, he won't really be that invested in your startup because he'll be on a rotational program between a bunch of our startups."

Re: Joining a Startup Out of College is Hard

azeem — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:06:19 -0000

Michael, not exactly what I'm referring to. VCs advertise roles; do they hire you directly? Do their associates or whoever come to campus and recruit as "Sequoia" or "Kleiner Perkins", and hire you into the VC, or into a rotational program amongst their startups?

All this makes a huge difference, which is precisely why you haven't seen the effects I'm predicting.

Re: Joining a Startup Out of College is Hard

Michael — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:02:40 -0000

Ok, you realise this is nothing new? As long as I've been involved in enterprise / vc (5+ years) almost every VC I come across advertises roles in it's portfolio companies.

As yet it hasn't seemed to have had the effects you predict.

Re: Test #1

azeem — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:30:46 -0000

Much thanks! I'll make this more interesting than "Hello world!" and "Blog going live" shortly, heh.

Re: Test #1

EricFriedman — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:41:01 -0000

Congratulations on starting!

Re: Hello world!

azeem — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:11:37 -0000

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