Fledgling B2B legal tech startup in SF in need of a full stack Python developer. Experience with complex asynchronous scraping is a plus (we're eschewing Scrapy in favor of rolling our own). Opportunities for machine learning work in the future.
Would consider a co-founder/first hire if local, interested, and the fit is right. Have an MVP and customers willing to pay good money at very high margins. We're solving a well-defined problem. This is a profit, not growth, oriented business. Currently trying to raise a proper seed round.
Looking for a full stack Python/JS developer. Most of the work is on our back end using celery/redis/postgre for high volumes of concurrent async tasks. We also have a django-REST API for serving up content on our website. Our front-end is built on the Mezzanine CMS with a theme hacked together using Bootstrap. DevOps experience is a bonus but not necessary. Opportunities for other work include ML, NLP, and mobile development.
Yeah I've had fake "employees" as well. When I read up on it, it seemed the general consensus was that you could ask LinkedIn to remove them but they didn't particularly care. Over time, you'll likely end up playing whack-a-mole with fake profiles.
I agree, but I think the problem you're highlighting is intrinsic to business models that emphasize growth over money making more than it's intrinsic to bubbles.
I agree with this article, to an extent, but I think it misses a very important and rarely discussed point about this strategy:
I don't think we need to characterize these companies as pump-and-dump schemes (although some are)-- we can give them the benefit of the doubt and say they're adopting a particular strategy of getting as big as possible by whatever means possible in order to increase acquisition value. This is an insanely risky strategy which wholly betrays whatever lip service founders and their investors have paid to "de-risking" the company in its early days.
Consider the elements of the gamble:
1) An acquirer exists
2) The acquirer has a reason for wanting to acquire the company
3) The acquirer has the money to do so
4) The deal will actually close without being scuttled during negotiations by one of the parties (or the startup's VC's)
5) 1-4 will happen before the next tech crash
6) As a founder, you will still have enough equity at the time of (5) for all of it to be financially worthwhile.
If any one of 1-5 goes wrong, you'll be left without a chair when the music stops.
I cannot really figure out what it is you offer/sell. Give to what or whom? Why? The centerpiece of your homepage is a screenshot telling me to give some unrecognizable web page about 'ad-bombing' a penny. Your pitch has to be intuitively understandable and in some kind of context.
Also, I get that you've jumped on the infinite scroll bandwagon but you have an INSANE amount of white space that you could be using to get the point across. I think you're mistaking cleanliness for conciseness.
Hire a good copywriter and a designer who is actually into good design, stat!
There are some things we've encountered that should have been relatively basic but turned out to be a nightmare. One is configuring a VM to have a public, static IP. I currently have a Windows VM running that somehow has no fewer than 3 different static IP's, depending on where you look. Yes, we followed the directions and had our dev ops guy give it a try.
Second, we deal with some third party vendors who require us to white list our IP's. We ended up having to config a VPN through Digital Ocean because even our dev ops guy and our IT guy together couldn't figure out how to route our traffic.
Back-end: nginx/postgre/redis/celery/django
Front-end: mezzanine/bootstrap/websockets
Fledgling B2B legal tech startup in SF in need of a full stack Python developer. Experience with complex asynchronous scraping is a plus (we're eschewing Scrapy in favor of rolling our own). Opportunities for machine learning work in the future.
Would consider a co-founder/first hire if local, interested, and the fit is right. Have an MVP and customers willing to pay good money at very high margins. We're solving a well-defined problem. This is a profit, not growth, oriented business. Currently trying to raise a proper seed round.
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