brianmwang
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Comment · 9 years ago
Eaze (http://eaze.com) | Multiple Positions | Full Time | San Francisco, CA
We're the fastest growing cannabis on-demand delivery company in the space and growth is only accelerating. With state laws increasingly legalizing marijuana and cultural attitudes rapidly shifting away from the old days of D.A.R.E. education, there is a major tectonic shift happening that the company is well positioned to leverage.
Hiring for:
- Senior Android Engineer - Senior iOS Engineer - Senior Back End Engineer - Senior DevOps Engineer - Data Analyst - Data Engineer - Data Scientist - Growth Engineer - Senior Product Engineer
More info can be found here: https://www.eaze.com/careers
Please email [email protected] with CV if interested.
Comment · 12 years ago
This advice also applies to business development, fundraising, and generally closing deals. It's easy to stew and agonize over an email draft for days and even easier for the recipient to ignore or blow past your key message once you've sent it. Just pick up the damn phone and close the deal.
Comment · 12 years ago
Spot on. Reaching out to your earliest users directly - and not via a canned email - is really effective for building trust and loyalty in a community. Communities are often a reflection of the founder him/herself and this sort of grassroots outreach goes a long way toward attracting others.
Comment · 13 years ago
New York, NY - Fitocracy (http://fitocracy.com)
Web Developer
We are looking for exceptional software developers to help us take Fitocracy to the next level. Our team is solving really tough problems all set behind an awesome user experience that needs to scale to millions of users. You must kick ass at Python, Django, and Javascript as well as be biased toward shipping code and product. Since we are a small team, you will work not only on product development but pretty much any other challenge we can throw your way.
We are offering a competitive salary and equity ownership. This is for a full time position in New York. And yes, we will help you relocate to the best city on Earth :)
What You'll Be Doing - Work closely with the rest of the Fitocracy team and deliver new features using Python, Django, and Javascript - Help manage the servers and services we use: AWS, Linux, MySQL, nginx, uwsgi, redis, git, and Celery - Communicate constantly with both the team and the Fitocracy community - Track user feedback and continuously iterate on it - Test, release, and maintain your code - Make sure the user experience is consistently awesome
We especially want to talk to you if... - You have any experience with machine learning - You're strong in statistical analysis and/or AB testing
About Us Fitocracy is a social network that empowers everyone to reach their next level of fitness. Nearly a million people use our web and mobile apps to track their progress, compete against their friends, and get real world results. We are building a world where fitness is possible for everyone. Enough of the useless crap that's polluting the market these days. We're setting out to change everything. We are an 8 person team based out of NYC that recently raised money from a variety of VCs and angels, including 500 Startups, Eniac Ventures, folks from Zynga/Google/Greylock. The founders, having gone through significant fitness transformations in their own personal lives, originally started Fitocracy in late 2010 as a way to marry their love of fitness with their years growing up playing classic role playing games like Final Fantasy and Everquest.
Contact Email me at [email protected]
Comment · 14 years ago
"...how much more it makes you tax your own body. When you're at the gym, you don't push yourself."
Says who? This seems like a false premise to me.
Comment · 14 years ago
This tip also worked for me. Snagged a 16GB long after I thought hope was lost. Thanks for sharing :)
Comment · 14 years ago
Hi, one of the cofounders behind Fitocracy here.
While much of the discussion here is focused on tracking activity, I want to mention that we at Fitocracy consider tracking secondary to the social experience the app and site provide. We believe that the key to long term success isn't about numbers on a screen but rather, making fitness a part of your identity and every day life through spending time with people and communities just like you. I highly recommend you check out the social aspects of the experience if you download the app :)
Comment · 14 years ago
Congratulations on the jump, Emile :)
Comment · 14 years ago
New York, NY - Fitocracy (http://fitocracy.com)
Web Developer
We are looking for exceptional software developers to help us take Fitocracy to the next level. Our team is solving really tough problems all set behind an awesome user experience that needs to scale to millions of users. You must kick ass at Python, Django, and Javascript as well as be biased toward shipping code and product. Since we are a small team, you will work not only on product development but pretty much any other challenge we can throw your way.
We are offering a competitive salary and equity ownership. This is for a full time position in New York. And yes, we will help you relocate to the best city on Earth :)
What You'll Be Doing
- Work closely with the rest of the Fitocracy team and deliver new features using Python, Django, and Javascript - Help manage the servers and services we use: AWS, Linux, MySQL, nginx, uwsgi, redis, git, and Celery - Communicate constantly with both the team and the Fitocracy community - Track user feedback and continuously iterate on it - Test, release, and maintain your code - Make sure the user experience is consistently awesome
About Us
Fitocracy is a social network that empowers everyone to reach their next level of fitness. Over half a million people use our web and mobile apps to track their progress, compete against their friends, and get real world results. We are building a world where fitness is possible for everyone. Enough of the useless crap that's polluting the market these days. We're setting out to change everything.
We are an 8 person team based out of NYC that recently raised money from a variety of VCs and angels, including 500 Startups and Eniac Ventures. The founders, having gone through significant fitness transformations in their own personal lives, originally started Fitocracy in late 2010 as a way to marry their love of fitness with their years growing up playing classic role playing games like Final Fantasy and Everquest.
Contact
Email me at [email protected]
Comment · 14 years ago
You may want to look into iDoneThis: https://idonethis.com/
Disclaimer: I'm friends with the founders.
Comment · 14 years ago
New York, NY - Fitocracy (http://fitocracy.com)
iOS Developer
Who We're Looking For
- Considerable experience building and shipping iOS apps.
- You are obsessed with delivering a great user experience.
- You work well with small, tight-knit teams.
- You prioritize strong communication above all else. A team that stays in sync is a team that gets shit done.
About Us
Fitocracy is a social network that empowers everyone to reach their next level of fitness. Nearly half a million people use our web and mobile apps to track their progress, compete against their friends, and get real world results. We turn life into the ultimate RPG where you are the hero that levels up, beats quests, and finds the best version of yourself.
We aim to connect you to a community that provide the motivation, information, and inspiration needed necessary to "re-wire" people's brains so they make sustainable, impactful changes in their lives.
We are a small, 6-person team based out of NYC that recently raised money from a variety of VCs and angels, including 500 Startups and Eniac Ventures. The founders, having gone through significant fitness transformations in their own personal lives, originally started Fitocracy in late 2010 as a way to marry their love of fitness with their years growing up playing classic role playing games like Final Fantasy and Everquest.
We put a lot of time into making sure our iPhone app was beautifully designed and fun to use. We've received thousands of rave reviews in 3 months and we aim to continue building the app into the best social fitness experience available. Download it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitocracy-fitness-social-netw...
Contact
Email me at [email protected]