stefanocutello
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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
I'd like to ask to all these complaining italians that are telling people to stay away from their home country: how many of you are still in Italy and what are you doing to change things?
I don't think that throwing shit (true or not) and scaring international talents from coming to Italy opening their own startup is a good way to help.
Disclaimer: I'm Italian, living and running my company in NL since 3 years.
Comment · 11 years ago
Technical Leader / Full Stack Product Developer
PastBook.com / Amsterdam (NL)
Full-time, Great Salary + Equity
Full Job Description: http://www.pastbook.com/txt/job-offers/#cto
PastBook is the easiest way to relive your memories, online and offline.
We’re looking for a smart person to join the team full-time that can take the lead on the technology/product side of the business and build a top-notch tech team around him/her. We’re based in Amsterdam, with a beautiful cozy office on the Herengracht canal - in the middle of the city. We were part of RockStart Accelerator in Amsterdam and we’ve built an extensive network of connections that you can use. We are making money and we are VC backed, this year we'll have to scale and grow globally. Our main market is the USA, where we’ll setup another office soon (HQ will stay in Amsterdam).
The role requires great 360° technical and communicational skills, leadership, autonomy and dedication. Being able to understand and play – by case – with the balance between startup/business needs (i.e. have something good enough out ASAP) and technical debt (i.e. re-work, re-factor) is key.
You’ll have to deal with:
- Apache + MySQL + Redis. Dedicated servers + AWS (EC2, S3 and more)
- PHP5, HTML5 (responsive design), CSS/JavaScript (Bootstrap, Less, Coffeescript, jQuery)
- Template systems: Twig, Handlebars, Smarty
- Silex, Slim, Grunt/Gulp, RESTful API, Vagrant, Puppet
- Git + svn
- MVC / OOP (frontend/backend)
- Interface design and UXP
- Site performance and trackings
Knowledge on (native) mobile application development (iOS and Android) is a plus.
Apply if you are:
- Native/Fluent English speaker (it is a must).
- Good in written and spoken communication, both technical and not.
- Focused to details. Data driven.
- Creative, confident, determined, self motivated and proactive.
- Able to manage time effectively and work under strict deadlines
- A lateral thinker and problem solver
- Passionated about technology and development
Apply at [email protected] (open to worldwide applications) Read more: http://www.pastbook.com/txt/job-offers/#cto
Comment · 12 years ago
Pay attention that some sales people will be good at selling themselves to you but not your product to the customers.
ABC: there's no way to know if he/she's a good sale person if not seeing it in action.
To know which kind of sale person is best for you - you have to try to do it yourself first: know your customers, know their problems and which are the values they see in your product (I assume you have done this before building the product).
Then start searching key people in the industry you're targeting and ask for help - get into that network and you'll find your person.
Avoid sales consultant. Avoid external sales company. It's too early for you. You need someone internal that will do more than just selling your product. You need someone that will listen to any comments, feedbacks, needs, feelings of your potential customers and will identify opportunities, product changes, propositions and values.
To get him/her on board pay attention to do not give out shares on day one. Setup an option pool with vesting and link i.e. salary with company performance (not personal one). I can give you some further tips on that if needed. I did that myself with a new biz dev guy.
All the best!
Comment · 12 years ago
We want to be "More than just printed books", allowing people to collect photos from relatives and friends in a private place, being able to turn them in a keepsake printed book within 1 click.
We've just updated the UI and added a new look&feel for the book template (code name 'magic-blur'). You can hand-pick photos for many social-network (we'll facilitate the import of multiple photos with a wizard within the next few iterations).
Any feedback is welcome. I'm the founder, you can reach out directly to me at stefano at pastbook dot com
Thanks
Comment · 12 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
If that's your main problem, don't start.
We offer salary + equity.
PastBook is on a mission to help people reliving their memories. We are VC backed - rebuilding the team from scratch and looking for engineer #1. We can sponsor VISA, but just after a trial period of few months. No remote.
More info here: http://www.pastbook.com/txt/job-offers/#cto
Interested? Write to [email protected]