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Job Searching with Social Media (UC Spring 2015)Thomas Armitage
This document provides tips and strategies for using social media to search for jobs more effectively. It notes that while social media has made applying for jobs easier, it has also made it harder to stand out from other applicants. The document then lists 20 tips for an effective social media job search, including developing an online professional brand, creating and sharing content regularly, attending online events and conferences, conducting informational interviews, customizing an LinkedIn profile, and broadly connecting with others in your industry on social media. It concludes by recommending continuing to study and set up a LinkedIn profile to connect with the author.
Hackathons involve forming teams of people to work on projects, with an emphasis on organizing communication around the process. The purpose is for participants to learn, grow their skills, and celebrate their work and accomplishments together. Key roles include project managers to organize the team and facilitate communication, as well as product managers to guide development work according to priorities. An agile development approach is commonly used, with an emphasis on early delivery of minimum viable products and accepting changing requirements. The informal, collaborative environment allows for learning through experiences like pair programming. Overall, hackathons aim to provide opportunities for learning, skill-building, and celebration among participants.
RailsConf 2019: What I learned my first year as a full-time programmerHilary Stohs-Krause
The document summarizes what the author learned in their first year as a full-time programmer. Some of the key lessons included that programmers are not necessarily the most important people on a tech team, and that qualities like collaboration, quality work, and avoiding "rockstar" behaviors are more important for success than being a highly skilled coder. The author advocates learning where one's strengths lie to best contribute, such as through documentation, code reviews, or testing. Asking for help from others and tracking one's own growth through blogging or public speaking are also recommended. Diversity, inclusion, and avoiding tokenism are important both for the team and for building products for diverse users.
This document discusses a task delegation platform called getdoido.com. It provides examples of tasks that can be delegated through the platform, including cleaning, car washing, and cooking. It also outlines the business model, which takes a 15% commission from each task budget. Key details include that the platform uses an intelligent matching algorithm to match those needing tasks done (delegators) with those able to complete the tasks (doers). It has experienced rapid growth since launching in June 2014 without any marketing spending.
Job Searching with Social Media (UC Spring 2015)Thomas Armitage
This document provides tips and strategies for using social media to search for jobs more effectively. It notes that while social media has made applying for jobs easier, it has also made it harder to stand out from other applicants. The document then lists 20 tips for an effective social media job search, including developing an online professional brand, creating and sharing content regularly, attending online events and conferences, conducting informational interviews, customizing an LinkedIn profile, and broadly connecting with others in your industry on social media. It concludes by recommending continuing to study and set up a LinkedIn profile to connect with the author.
Hackathons involve forming teams of people to work on projects, with an emphasis on organizing communication around the process. The purpose is for participants to learn, grow their skills, and celebrate their work and accomplishments together. Key roles include project managers to organize the team and facilitate communication, as well as product managers to guide development work according to priorities. An agile development approach is commonly used, with an emphasis on early delivery of minimum viable products and accepting changing requirements. The informal, collaborative environment allows for learning through experiences like pair programming. Overall, hackathons aim to provide opportunities for learning, skill-building, and celebration among participants.
RailsConf 2019: What I learned my first year as a full-time programmerHilary Stohs-Krause
The document summarizes what the author learned in their first year as a full-time programmer. Some of the key lessons included that programmers are not necessarily the most important people on a tech team, and that qualities like collaboration, quality work, and avoiding "rockstar" behaviors are more important for success than being a highly skilled coder. The author advocates learning where one's strengths lie to best contribute, such as through documentation, code reviews, or testing. Asking for help from others and tracking one's own growth through blogging or public speaking are also recommended. Diversity, inclusion, and avoiding tokenism are important both for the team and for building products for diverse users.
This document discusses a task delegation platform called getdoido.com. It provides examples of tasks that can be delegated through the platform, including cleaning, car washing, and cooking. It also outlines the business model, which takes a 15% commission from each task budget. Key details include that the platform uses an intelligent matching algorithm to match those needing tasks done (delegators) with those able to complete the tasks (doers). It has experienced rapid growth since launching in June 2014 without any marketing spending.
The document announces an upcoming symposium on growth hacking by Maarten van Kroonenburg. It will cover the growth hacking process, the difference between process and tactics, creating and prioritizing ideas, and provide examples of growth hack blogs and cases. Attendees can receive a free Dutch e-book by visiting theleandoctor.nl website.
The document discusses how startups can achieve authentic growth by stacking the odds in their favor. It recommends identifying the must-have experience (MHX) that is essential for users, optimizing marketing at both the macro and micro level to improve delivery of the MHX, and using lifecycle management to enhance engagement, encourage sharing, and drive sales over time. The goal is to maximize the percentage of users that achieve the MHX through optimizing hooks, promises, and reducing friction points, while also improving loyalty, referrals, and sales.
Focusing on the right aggressive growth goals can dramatically increase your company's overall growth rate, moving your team from random ideation to creative problem solving. In these slides, Sean explains how to set and achieve high impact growth goals. You’ll learn how to determine the ideal target and time frame for each growth goal and how to rally your team around a proven growth hacking process for achieving the goals.
Z shell (zsh) provides many powerful features out of the box that can make the shell experience more efficient and productive compared to other shells like bash. Zsh includes advanced tab completion for commands like git, path expansion and replacement, right-hand prompts, spelling correction, powerful aliases, extended globbing, environment variable editing, and programmable file renaming. It also features intuitive history searching, syntax highlighting, and integration with the oh-my-zsh framework. Overall, zsh's extensive capabilities and customization options allow users to optimize their shell workflow.
Building a Company-Wide Growth Culture: SaaStr Annual 2016Sean Ellis
Growth is getting harder for SaaS business. Over the last 10 years, 3X more dollars chase the attention of every US Internet user and the channels for acquiring customers are in constant flux. The solution is a coordinated full company growth effort. These slides show how to drive broad participation and execute in a weekly cadence of testing and learning.
Asia Startup Ecosystem launched in the hopes of centralizing resources, programs, and events for Asian entrepreneurs. Upon finding limited opportunities in the region, the company launched Asia’s first Digital Startup Accelerator to accelerate 100 startups to market per year.The inaugural program launched on January 23-24, 2017 with a 2-day startup development program, followed by a virtual demo day for 10 selected companies. Demo judges and speakers included angel investors, global accelerator leaders, and press. More info at www.asiastartupecosystem.com
This document provides an overview of digital marketing tools that can help startups. It discusses website building tools like Balsamiq and Wix. It also covers tools for wireframing, stock images, SEO like Ahrefs and SEMrush, social media analytics, content marketing, email marketing like MailChimp, landing pages, and PR. The document emphasizes investing in content marketing and recommends tracking results to improve digital strategies over time.
Social Media 2014: Engaging and Building Relationships (PA Media Group) Resourceful Nonprofit
What will be the focus of 2014 in social media? How can you leverage images and video? What do audience demographics look like on different social media plaforms, and what do people want to see on each one?
Learn the latest statistics, trends, best practices, and content strategy for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Instagram, and more.
Come join 100+ founders in one place!
9:30am-10:00am- Registration Opening Remarks & Orientation
10:00am-12pm Power Hour Boot Camp
Starting, Ideation, Test 101
Pitch 101
Product Development 101
Customer Acquisition 101
Press & Marketing 101
Funding 101
12:00-1:00pm Lunch break Offsite
1:00-1:30 Pitch Off
1:30-3:00 Exponential Tech Power Hour BootCamp
Overview of the top 10 Exponential Tech
Leveraging Exponential Tech In Business
How to integrate exponential tech into your product
3:00-3:30 Mental Engineering & Entrepreneurship + Q/A
Middle East Startups is the home of the Middle East startup ecosystem hosting digital events, boot camps, accelerators and startup expos for the region. It is a subsidiary of Global Startup Ecosystem, which provides digital programs for startup ecosystems in Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Middle East, Europe, and Latin America.More information at http://middleeaststartups.com/
Creating an Open Source Office: Lessons from TwitterChris Aniszczyk
The document discusses lessons learned from creating an open source office at Twitter. It describes how Twitter has been built on open source software since the beginning. It also discusses several important open source projects Twitter has created and contributed to, such as Bootstrap, Mesos, Twemcache, and Parquet. Some key lessons highlighted include choosing licenses diligently, collaborating with the community from the start of projects, and ensuring projects have owners if contributors leave the company. The talk emphasizes that community building is important for open source projects and that developer advocates are valuable for growing contributions.
How to Land A Remote Job and Skills Needed to SucceedAdeniyi Adegboye
Remote work is no longer a trend. In this webinar, we discuss why remote work is taking over and how you can position yourself to land your first remote job.
Interact London - 21 Oct 2015 - Scaling StupidityCraig Sullivan
This document provides tips for scaling testing and innovation through stupid testing. It discusses the hype cycle of testing where stupid testing leads to questioning ROI and a faith crisis before smarter testing approaches emerge. It advocates starting with basic analytics health checks, understanding customer devices and traffic, doing research before testing, prioritizing high opportunity tests, and performing pre-flight checks to avoid broken tests. The document cautions against stopping tests at arbitrary confidence levels and recommends testing for longer to obtain more reliable results.
If you've interviewed for a content strategy role recently, you may have been asked for a portfolio. But CS deliverables don't always lend themselves to sharing--who wants to see an inventory spreadsheet? And what do you do when your work is all client-confidential? This event took place at the Seattle Content Strategy Meetup designed to help job seekers or consultants create engaging portfolios, presented by Masa Zokaei Edie.
SharePoint 2016 & Office 365: A Look Ahead To What's Coming - SPS VancouverRichard Harbridge
With SharePoint 2016 around the corner and Office 365 constantly releasing new functionality it can be hard to feel ready for what will come over the next few years. Where should we invest in learning? What other technologies should we understand? Why are some things changing?
Join Richard Harbridge as he explores Technology roadmaps and industry trends and how Microsoft and many customers are planning for the challenges ahead.
Latin America Startups launched in the hopes of centralizing resources, programs, and events for Latin American entrepreneurs. Upon finding limited opportunities for the region, the company launched the first Latin American Digital Accelerator to accelerate 100 startups to market per year. The inaugural program launched on December 5th with a 2-day startup development program, followed by a virtual demo day for 10 selected companies. Demo judges included angel investors, global accelerator leaders, and press. Apply now for the 2017 digital accelerator at http://latinamericastartups.com/our-programs/
eMetrics London - The AB Testing Hype CycleCraig Sullivan
The document discusses best practices for A/B testing, including:
1. Performing analytics health checks and modelling to understand user flows before testing.
2. Testing in areas informed by analytics rather than copying competitors, and accounting for device mix.
3. Doing user research like surveys, interviews and usability testing to inform testing.
4. Prioritizing high opportunity, low cost tests and creating a money model to estimate potential returns.
5. Conducting pre-flight checks to ensure tests are functioning properly across devices before launching.
Why analytics are useful, with links & resources (1)Simon Cocking
This document discusses how analytics can help businesses develop ideas. It explains that analytics provide user demographics, locations, devices used, and browsing behaviors. This information helps target ideal customers and improve advertising, social media, and campaign strategies. The document also includes a case study where analytics helped identify effective and ineffective ad types for an MMA site. It recommends resources for learning analytics, including free courses from Google Analytics Academy.
The document describes an accelerator program that aims to accelerate 100 startups per year through a digital 2-day program open to African businesses and freelancers. The program includes startup development, mentorship, and competitions with prizes for the top 3 startups, and all participants have access to the annual digital startup summit. Over 300 companies completed the program last year, with the top participating countries being Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya.
The document announces an upcoming symposium on growth hacking by Maarten van Kroonenburg. It will cover the growth hacking process, the difference between process and tactics, creating and prioritizing ideas, and provide examples of growth hack blogs and cases. Attendees can receive a free Dutch e-book by visiting theleandoctor.nl website.
The document discusses how startups can achieve authentic growth by stacking the odds in their favor. It recommends identifying the must-have experience (MHX) that is essential for users, optimizing marketing at both the macro and micro level to improve delivery of the MHX, and using lifecycle management to enhance engagement, encourage sharing, and drive sales over time. The goal is to maximize the percentage of users that achieve the MHX through optimizing hooks, promises, and reducing friction points, while also improving loyalty, referrals, and sales.
Focusing on the right aggressive growth goals can dramatically increase your company's overall growth rate, moving your team from random ideation to creative problem solving. In these slides, Sean explains how to set and achieve high impact growth goals. You’ll learn how to determine the ideal target and time frame for each growth goal and how to rally your team around a proven growth hacking process for achieving the goals.
Z shell (zsh) provides many powerful features out of the box that can make the shell experience more efficient and productive compared to other shells like bash. Zsh includes advanced tab completion for commands like git, path expansion and replacement, right-hand prompts, spelling correction, powerful aliases, extended globbing, environment variable editing, and programmable file renaming. It also features intuitive history searching, syntax highlighting, and integration with the oh-my-zsh framework. Overall, zsh's extensive capabilities and customization options allow users to optimize their shell workflow.
Building a Company-Wide Growth Culture: SaaStr Annual 2016Sean Ellis
Growth is getting harder for SaaS business. Over the last 10 years, 3X more dollars chase the attention of every US Internet user and the channels for acquiring customers are in constant flux. The solution is a coordinated full company growth effort. These slides show how to drive broad participation and execute in a weekly cadence of testing and learning.
Asia Startup Ecosystem launched in the hopes of centralizing resources, programs, and events for Asian entrepreneurs. Upon finding limited opportunities in the region, the company launched Asia’s first Digital Startup Accelerator to accelerate 100 startups to market per year.The inaugural program launched on January 23-24, 2017 with a 2-day startup development program, followed by a virtual demo day for 10 selected companies. Demo judges and speakers included angel investors, global accelerator leaders, and press. More info at www.asiastartupecosystem.com
This document provides an overview of digital marketing tools that can help startups. It discusses website building tools like Balsamiq and Wix. It also covers tools for wireframing, stock images, SEO like Ahrefs and SEMrush, social media analytics, content marketing, email marketing like MailChimp, landing pages, and PR. The document emphasizes investing in content marketing and recommends tracking results to improve digital strategies over time.
Social Media 2014: Engaging and Building Relationships (PA Media Group) Resourceful Nonprofit
What will be the focus of 2014 in social media? How can you leverage images and video? What do audience demographics look like on different social media plaforms, and what do people want to see on each one?
Learn the latest statistics, trends, best practices, and content strategy for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Instagram, and more.
Come join 100+ founders in one place!
9:30am-10:00am- Registration Opening Remarks & Orientation
10:00am-12pm Power Hour Boot Camp
Starting, Ideation, Test 101
Pitch 101
Product Development 101
Customer Acquisition 101
Press & Marketing 101
Funding 101
12:00-1:00pm Lunch break Offsite
1:00-1:30 Pitch Off
1:30-3:00 Exponential Tech Power Hour BootCamp
Overview of the top 10 Exponential Tech
Leveraging Exponential Tech In Business
How to integrate exponential tech into your product
3:00-3:30 Mental Engineering & Entrepreneurship + Q/A
Middle East Startups is the home of the Middle East startup ecosystem hosting digital events, boot camps, accelerators and startup expos for the region. It is a subsidiary of Global Startup Ecosystem, which provides digital programs for startup ecosystems in Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Middle East, Europe, and Latin America.More information at http://middleeaststartups.com/
Creating an Open Source Office: Lessons from TwitterChris Aniszczyk
The document discusses lessons learned from creating an open source office at Twitter. It describes how Twitter has been built on open source software since the beginning. It also discusses several important open source projects Twitter has created and contributed to, such as Bootstrap, Mesos, Twemcache, and Parquet. Some key lessons highlighted include choosing licenses diligently, collaborating with the community from the start of projects, and ensuring projects have owners if contributors leave the company. The talk emphasizes that community building is important for open source projects and that developer advocates are valuable for growing contributions.
How to Land A Remote Job and Skills Needed to SucceedAdeniyi Adegboye
Remote work is no longer a trend. In this webinar, we discuss why remote work is taking over and how you can position yourself to land your first remote job.
Interact London - 21 Oct 2015 - Scaling StupidityCraig Sullivan
This document provides tips for scaling testing and innovation through stupid testing. It discusses the hype cycle of testing where stupid testing leads to questioning ROI and a faith crisis before smarter testing approaches emerge. It advocates starting with basic analytics health checks, understanding customer devices and traffic, doing research before testing, prioritizing high opportunity tests, and performing pre-flight checks to avoid broken tests. The document cautions against stopping tests at arbitrary confidence levels and recommends testing for longer to obtain more reliable results.
If you've interviewed for a content strategy role recently, you may have been asked for a portfolio. But CS deliverables don't always lend themselves to sharing--who wants to see an inventory spreadsheet? And what do you do when your work is all client-confidential? This event took place at the Seattle Content Strategy Meetup designed to help job seekers or consultants create engaging portfolios, presented by Masa Zokaei Edie.
SharePoint 2016 & Office 365: A Look Ahead To What's Coming - SPS VancouverRichard Harbridge
With SharePoint 2016 around the corner and Office 365 constantly releasing new functionality it can be hard to feel ready for what will come over the next few years. Where should we invest in learning? What other technologies should we understand? Why are some things changing?
Join Richard Harbridge as he explores Technology roadmaps and industry trends and how Microsoft and many customers are planning for the challenges ahead.
Latin America Startups launched in the hopes of centralizing resources, programs, and events for Latin American entrepreneurs. Upon finding limited opportunities for the region, the company launched the first Latin American Digital Accelerator to accelerate 100 startups to market per year. The inaugural program launched on December 5th with a 2-day startup development program, followed by a virtual demo day for 10 selected companies. Demo judges included angel investors, global accelerator leaders, and press. Apply now for the 2017 digital accelerator at http://latinamericastartups.com/our-programs/
eMetrics London - The AB Testing Hype CycleCraig Sullivan
The document discusses best practices for A/B testing, including:
1. Performing analytics health checks and modelling to understand user flows before testing.
2. Testing in areas informed by analytics rather than copying competitors, and accounting for device mix.
3. Doing user research like surveys, interviews and usability testing to inform testing.
4. Prioritizing high opportunity, low cost tests and creating a money model to estimate potential returns.
5. Conducting pre-flight checks to ensure tests are functioning properly across devices before launching.
Why analytics are useful, with links & resources (1)Simon Cocking
This document discusses how analytics can help businesses develop ideas. It explains that analytics provide user demographics, locations, devices used, and browsing behaviors. This information helps target ideal customers and improve advertising, social media, and campaign strategies. The document also includes a case study where analytics helped identify effective and ineffective ad types for an MMA site. It recommends resources for learning analytics, including free courses from Google Analytics Academy.
The document describes an accelerator program that aims to accelerate 100 startups per year through a digital 2-day program open to African businesses and freelancers. The program includes startup development, mentorship, and competitions with prizes for the top 3 startups, and all participants have access to the annual digital startup summit. Over 300 companies completed the program last year, with the top participating countries being Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya.
Online resources and apps to enhance engagement in accounting1murcha
This was my presentation at the 2018 Comview Conference in Victoria Australia. It shares some of the online resources, tools and apps that can be used to engage students in accounting. Some of the resources are directly targeted at the new Study Design for VCE Accounting which will be implemented in 2019.
This document provides an overview of search and social media optimization. It discusses how SEO has changed with algorithm updates prioritizing content, links and local search. It recommends developing a keyword plan using tools like Google Keyword Planner, Google Trends and competitors' websites. The document also covers setting up Google AdWords accounts and campaigns, including keyword match types and writing effective ads. It concludes by recommending books, blogs and Twitter accounts to follow for additional information.
Establishing a Collaboration Roadmap - SPFestSeattleDrew Madelung
The document discusses establishing a collaboration roadmap. It defines a roadmap as a plan focused on driving business value through partnership between business and IT. The roadmap encompasses needs, goals and strategy for collaboration solutions. The document provides examples of roadmapping approaches, including conducting workshops to understand challenges and opportunities, establishing timelines, and reviewing the roadmap regularly with stakeholders. The key is for the roadmap to improve processes, mitigate risks, and increase user adoption of collaboration tools.
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Similar to My #1 startup - Basics for beginners (20)
13. 1. Friends & Colleagues
2. Start on your own - Dropbox
3. Groups/Meetings (www.meetup.com)
4. Facebook groups
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/munichstartups/
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/MunichStartupJobs/
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/176418992531665/
• https://www.facebook.com/LeanStartupMachineMunich
5. Websites
• https://www.cofounderslab.com/
• http://www.xn--mitgrnder-u9a.com/
• Ask google :)
6. Post a flyer at your University
7. Go for meetings to accelerators like Wayra
18. Something to read…
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
The $100 Startup - Chris Guillebeau
Free - Chris Anderson
The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
that’s enough….