Category Archives: Jobs

Startups, College, and Blue-Collar Ideas of Risk

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: May 15, 2012

At the start of this year I left my gig at Yahoo! (before the meltdown) to go off on my own. Most people who have taken “the plunge” (I’ve taken it once before) are met with a series of doubts and feelings of disbelief from family and close friends. ”But what will you do for money!? [...]

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Startups: Gold Diggers vs. Real Entrepreneurs

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: April 18, 2012

NYC Tech is exploding (or has exploded), and I’m constantly hearing about new startups and their ideas. What’s really strange is that, at least on the surface, a lot of these ideas don’t sound like great ones. So for you soon-to-be entrepreneurs out there, I want to make my case for building a real business [...]

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Re: How to Find Good Developers

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: December 14, 2010

A little less than a month ago I made a podcast with John about how recruiters can find good developers. A small part of the podcast talked about reaching out to developers, and how adding something personal (ie, mentioning one of their projects) can really get some attention. In the past few days, I’ve gotten [...]

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How to Find Good Developers

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: November 20, 2010

A comment on one of my favorite CodeFury posts, “How to Get a Job as a Programmer“, asks an interesting question. It was posted by Kyle Carter, the head of HR at Better Advertising. He posed the question, “how or where do I find good developers?” At the time that I’m writing this, the NYC [...]

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How To Get A Job As A Programmer

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: June 18, 2010

It seems that for the better part of my life, America’s economy has been in murky water. I was born into a Reagan economy (good), graduated to Bush Sr. (bad), did my time with Clinton (good), and started looking for jobs as a developer during Bush Jr.’s tenure (bad). And while I’ll abstain from the [...]

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