This will test my recent efforts to make AVC a globally relevant blog.
Our portfolio company Covestor is looking for someone to head up their engineering organization in Central London.
Here is the blog post detailing the position.
I had the opportunity to visit with the entire Covestor team on Weds morning in London. It's a great bunch of people and a fantastic culture. If you are a fit for this position, I strongly encourage you to go meet them.
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Posted July 18, 2008
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Are you a developer who blogs actively (and comments on other blogs)? Do you love presenting at a conference as much as writing code? Have you meaningfully contributed to an open source project? Do you like meeting new people? Do you relish explaining how something works and why it's the coolest thing since sliced bread? Do you enjoy traveling around the country (the world)?
If you can answer yes to all of the above then we have a great opportunity for you at one of our portfolio companies. You will be responsible for connecting a fantastic team working on some extraordinary technology with developers around the world. The software will be open source and you will be in charge of facilitating the growth of a community.
We can't say (quite yet) which company it is, but the job will be based in New York. If you are interested please write to info@unionsquareventures.com and make sure to include some evidence for all the questions above.
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Posted June 25, 2008
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One of our portfolio companies, Covestor, is looking for a key senior level hire, responsible for all product management and development of the Covestor.com service.
Lead Product Manager
- 8+ years online product management experience
- Demonstrated success defining and launching web products
- Experience initiating and managing a product development process
- Web community/data rich web marketplace experience
- Management experience
- Passion and Drive
If this describes you and if you are happy to work between London and New York, then please get in touch directly with Covestor.
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Posted April 14, 2008
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Our portfolio company Adaptive Blue is looking for a great interaction designer to join their team.
Here are the specific skills they are looking for:
* 5+ years of experience: from system-wide interactive interfaces to the smallest of production graphics
* Ability to translate strategic, user-experience, and technical
project requirements into information architecture and schematics, and
then translate those into design
* An appreciation of usability, functionality, innovation, and elegant solutions, with a great sense of typography
* An interest in semantic technologies and the evolution of social networks
* Ability to translate strategic, user-experience and technical
project requirements into both information architecture and design
* Basic knowledge of CSS/XHTML/HTML, as well as how to work with
and improve upon the technical issues associated with cutting edge
interactive development
Here's their craigslist ad in case you fit the bill and want to learn more.
I can tell you this, the Adaptive Blue team is a lot of fun to work with and they are doing some pretty amazing things trying to make the semantic web a reality.
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Posted March 17, 2008
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I've been on the board of Alacra since 1999. It's a company that sells data and services delivered over the Internet to wall street and other large corporations.
They've been building some interesting consumer/SMB facing services and recently launched a very different kind of ad network - the premium content ad network - which I blogged about last month.
Now they are looking for a business development person to help build the network. It's a very interesting job for someone looking to invent a new kind of ad network in the world of stock blogging and financial media. Details are here.
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Posted February 20, 2008
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The auction of my brand new 1.1.2 firmware iPhone on this blog worked. I didn't set the rules particularly well, but you all got the gist of what needed to happen.
I know that Edgeio is now dead, but I still believe in the power of the blog to be a commerce platform. It's all about audience. If you have the right one, you can sell stuff. I sold the iPhone and four tickets to the Neil Young show yesterday. Pretty cool. I don't plan on turning AVC into eBay, but I like to use this blog to try stuff out from time to time and yesterday was a good day for selling stuff.
So here's the deal on the iPhone. It's going to flynch for $375 plus shipping. He bid $399 but that was after the midnight cutoff, so I am accepting the $375 offer. If flynch flakes out and doesn't come through then I'll go with the next best offer. I'd like flynch to send me an email today (email is on the left sidebar) and we can work out the details.
There was a higher bid from Gilbert. It involved making a $251 gift to the charity of his choice and reading his pitch. Gilbert, send me your pitch. I'll read it and if I like it, I'll give $251 to the charity of your choice.
But flynch is getting the iPhone. For his wife. For Christmas. I love turning lemons into lemonade.
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Posted December 11, 2007
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If you are a Neil Young fan, you probably know that he's playing three shows this week in NYC, wednesday night, thursday night, and saturday night. I have tickets to wednesday and thursday night and need to unload two tickets to thursday night. Here are the details:
Neil Young
Thursday, Dec 13th, 8pm
United Palace Theater, Orchestra Left Center
Row X, Seats 5 & 6
they are two seats in from the center aisle, near the back of the orchestra
here's the seating chart for United Palace
I paid $117.75 per ticket. I'll take any reasonable offer. Please send me an email if you are interested. My email address is linked to on the left sidebar of this blog.
UPDATE: I sold these tickets. Got face value. Thanks for all the interest.
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Posted December 10, 2007
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I can't unlock this phone and it's driving me crazy sitting in the box it came in.
I have to get rid of it. So it's for sale.
A brand new 1.1.2 firmware iPhone. The best offer I get by midnight monday, Dec 10th gets the phone. The minimum bid is $249, a $150 discount. Hopefully I'll do better.
Paypal payments only.
This is the last iPhone I buy directly from Apple. From now on, I am only buying unlocked iPhones.
Fuck Apple.
Long AAPL.
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Posted December 9, 2007
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If so, please give this job spec on the Twitter blog a read.
We need someone to talk to mobile and IM operators all over the world and manage those relationships.
Even if you aren't a mobile bus dev person, we'd love leads on good ones that you know.
The job is SF-based.
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Posted December 6, 2007
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Outside.in, a Union Square Ventures portfolio company, is growing rapidly and needs someone to focus on the scaling issues. Here's the job description.
Outside.in is looking for a system administrator to help us manage our growing collection of web and database servers. We are looking for someone with experience in load balancing and clustering web servers running Ruby on Rails and PHP. You'll be expected to identify possible bottlenecks and scalability issues before they happen, and work closely with developers to address the problems you find.
Outside.in is located in Brooklyn, NY. If you are interested send an email with your resume to jobs.outside.in.
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Posted September 20, 2007
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