Do You Work With Recruiters to Hire?

June 3, 2013

Until this year, I never understood why companies would cough up 10-30% of a new hire’s first year salary to a recruiter. With LinkedIn searches and countless ways to promote jobs and find people on the internet, I did not see how the cost justifies having someone else do the searching for a business. As […]

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Outbound vs Inbound vs Referral Hiring

June 2, 2013

I’ve given a lot of thought this year to hiring. We continue to add to our team. We are very selective in our criteria, which means that finding good people becomes a numbers game – the more people that we can filter, the more successful the hiring process will be. It has been easier to […]

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Celebrating Startups at the Technical Edge

May 30, 2013

“Amazed at @elonmusk‘s ability to make some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs feel like 1st graders at #D11.” –Michael Lazerow “It’s probably because @elonmusk don’t follow the heard pouring his energy into the next lame picture sharing app 99% of VC’s chase.” –David Catalovski The startup world is ablaze yesterday and today with a […]

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Highlights from Mary Meeker’s Slidedeck

May 29, 2013

The new Mary Meeker slide deck came out today, as I’m sure reader’s of this blog have already seen. As I was studying Mary’s latest slides, I took notes on the insights I found most interesting: There is still a $20B internet and mobile ad revenue opportunity in the US (slide 5) Google and Yahoo have […]

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A Dirty Trick to Learn a Hiring Prospect’s Salary

May 28, 2013

From time-to-time I receive calls from employment verification firms seeking to validate previous employee’s positions with AccelerEyes. Typical questions include: Dates of employment Title or position of employee within the company Would you hire this employee again? Any other information you feel you should share? In addition to the above questions, last week one of […]

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Challenges Doing a PhD and a Startup

May 26, 2013

In 2007, my 3 co-founders and I started AccelerEyes. We were all PhD students in the same computer vision lab at Georgia Tech. The impetus for AccelerEyes grew out of a side project and was not directly related to our PhD research. The startup started small with little required time-commitment and slowly grew in importance over […]

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The Exciting Competition of Mobile Chipsets

May 25, 2013

While watching the Grizzlies vs Spurs game tonight, I was surprised to see the Qualcomm Snapdragon sponsorship and commercial (see below for the video). Also fun to see geeky chipsets get comsumer marketing. The competition of mobile chipsets is exciting and fierce. Many large companies are fighting it out to become the chipset leader for […]

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Give and Take of Website Data Collection

May 24, 2013

“If you make someone fill out a marketing form before you show them pricing, sorry, but you’re an idiot,” by @pfreet “Ditto requiring credit card for a free trial,” by @gtryan One of the decisions startups face at some point is where to draw the line in the give and take of website data collection. […]

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Startup Ideas that I Dropped During Grad School

May 23, 2013

Yesterday I posted about startup ideas that I dropped during my undergrad. Today, I’ll share ideas that I dropped in grad school, prior to running with AccelerEyes. Prior to AccelerEyes, I tried a number of startup ideas and ultimately left those behind: Dry Cleaning Point of Sale Software – one of my friends had a connection […]

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Startup Ideas that I Dropped During Undergrad

May 22, 2013

When evaluating various startup ideas, there are many filters to apply. It is a very selective process. The idea that is selected may likely become the next decade of your life, so the bar needs to be high. During my undergrad, I tried a number of startup ideas. Here are some of ideas I tried […]

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