San Diego, CA. Remote. Klatu Networks (www.klatunetworks.com): A wireless sensor networking startup that focuses in biotech monitoring. We are a small, bootstrapped, profitable start up. We are very selective on our hiring so you will only be working with other great engineers.
The most important requirements is to be passionate about creating software and be able to quickly grasp new technologies. Other requirements include strong knowledge of Javacript, Java, experience with Ruby, SQL, Git. We filled our last position through a previous 'Who is hiring' post with great success and hoping to do it again.
Contact me directly if you are interested, email is in my profile.
I went through about 80K in savings. There was some extra stress on the marriage (wife, 2 kids, mortgage payments.) But I was working from home mostly except when pitching VC's. My wife was very supportive.
When the startup died, I moved into contracting. I was doing quite well contracting and then one of guys who was on our board of advisors needed some development work and that led to me having substantial equity in the company and still working from home.
So the start up was a total failure, but I learned a lot and it lead me to where I am today which is much better than where I started.
I think there is a viral angle. There were a group of friends at college, all CS majors and we competed on our grades. We all wanted to one up each other.
I can see the ability to have a score board of some kind where you can share your grades with friends. This could help spread the word a bit.
The thing I'm scared of is being Zynga and asking people to share every little thing and to congratulate others when they get good grades.
To help the app spread, I need to implement something social such as sharing grades, but I'm going to be careful as to not go too far.
Its a huge plus. We are in the process right now of hiring and that is one of the first things we ask about. Do you have any open source code we can view? This tells us several things about the person
1) They are interested in coding. This was done on their own time, away from work. This means they actually like to code.
2) A lot of work is done to learn a new language/technology. This often shows desire to learn and the ability to at least hack together something that is new to them. This is important because we will be asking them to come up to speed quickly in our code base.
3) You can look at the code and get a feel for how they code. We are a small team and each developer will have the ability to have a big impact (for good or bad). Getting an idea of how they think, how they solve problems is a huge plus.
I don't think you need to have a lot of code available. Pick your favorite project, or 'best' project and make it available. I see very little downside.
This is good to know. I am currently in the process of leaving my current job and looking for work in a different country(UK). I have been hacking away at a side project that will help fill a particular need but mainly because:
a) I wanted to expand my skill set and work on a language and environment that I don't get to explore in my current job.
b) I want to have something to show potential employers to let them know that I am passionate about development and more than just a 9-5 programmer.
The issue I currently have is that the code is ugly and there are lots of things that I feel I could refactor and clean up. I might always feel this way as I am sure I will never have anything "perfect". I am wanting to get it live within the next few weeks and I think that I will have to accept that I just need to get it live and then focus on improving it after I have had feed back from users etc.
This is important exercise. I was involved with startup that was ad based for revenue. On paper, you can make the numbers add up and everything looks good. Knowing what numbers you need to hit is important. The hard part is getting the 104,167 visitors. Saying 'all we need is 0.01% of facebook users and we are rich' is not addressing the situation.
How are you going to attract visitors?
That said, you've already made it this far which is a great firs step. Good luck.
San Diego, CA. Remote ok. Klatu Networks (www.klatunetworks.com): A wireless sensor networking startup that focuses in biotech monitoring. We are a small, bootstrapped, profitable start up. We are very selective on our hiring so you will only be working with other great engineers.
The most important requirements is to be passionate about creating software and be able to quickly grasp new technologies. Other requirements include strong knowledge of Javacript, experience with Ruby, Java, SQL, Git.
Contact me directly if you are interested, email is in my profile.
Are you looking for a full-time, yet remote employee or would you be amenable to someone doing this in addition to a full-time job? I have a child on the way and can't drop or switch my insurance at this stage, but this sounds interesting and lines up with my academic background far more than most of the work I do.
San Diego, CA. Remote ok.
Klatu Networks: A wireless sensor networking startup that focuses in biotech monitoring. We are a small, bootstrapped, profitable start up. We are very selective on our hiring so you will only be working with other great engineers.
The most important requirements is to be passionate about creating software and be able to quickly grasp new technologies. Other requirements include strong knowledge of Javacript, experience with Ruby, Java, SQL, Git.
Contact me directly if you are interested, email is in my profile.
www.klatunetworks.com is looking for paid intern in San Diego. local is best, but remote is also a possibility if the person is a good match. Looking for someone who can start soon, rather than waiting for the summer. Contact me directly if you are interested, cexline at klatunetworks dot com.
Not interested in raising any VC. I've been part of a startup dealing with VC's and had a second startup fail to get the required VC investment. In both experiences, it was not fun.
Its far better create a product and grow the business. I also like owning the whole business and calling the shots. I'll take a 50% chance at a moderate success over a 1% chance at a huge success.
You have to factor in other costs on top of the employee wage:Taxes, Insurance (liability/health,etc), Retirement/401k, Office Space (Rent & Utilities optional if running virtual)
I'm sure there are other costs some optional, some not. Depending on how lean you want to run you can have a very low overhead.
It also depends on what level of developer you are hiring.
The most important requirements is to be passionate about creating software and be able to quickly grasp new technologies. Other requirements include strong knowledge of Javacript, Java, experience with Ruby, SQL, Git. We filled our last position through a previous 'Who is hiring' post with great success and hoping to do it again.
Contact me directly if you are interested, email is in my profile.