Nerd Stalker

George Kassabgi discusses how to increase your interview level By George Kassabgi on May 28, 2017. Originally published on Startups.co - the world's largest startup platform, helping over 1 million startup companies. More from Startups. Having interviewed hundreds of people in positions ranging from developers to sales reps, there are some interesting patterns that emerge. LEVEL +0 There are a number of things that candidates focus on which are in the “cannot hurt” category. To be competitive as a candidate these won’t suffice. Dress for success? So cliché. Your mom probably told you to “dress for success” but she also reminded you to be yourself. Come to an interview as yourself, if you’re comfortable in ‘business casual clothes’, wear those, if you’re only comfortable in jeans and t-shirt, great. If your confidence in a sales situation is strongest when dressed in a suit, bring it. Be yourself. Follow-up letter? “That candidate sent a great f...

Image Courtesy of NASA New Horizons Gallery The image above looks like the next coming of the Dark Star? No, not really, just the heart of Pluto and its frozen. But, we are not here to talk about that but the story behind the story. This week's installment of Highline, HuffPost's new longform journalism project, shines the spotlight on Alice Bowman, Johns Hopkins' Advanced Physics Laboratory's first ever woman Mission Operations Manager or as she's known to her team, M.O.M.  HuffPost's Highline Executive Editor Rachel Morris goes behind the scenes with the woman responsible for flying the most advanced unmanned spacecraft in history across 3.26 billion miles to get humanity's first ever glimpse of Pluto, all from her desk at APL outside Baltimore. Being at the helm of such an ambitious operation, Bowman is proving that spaceflight is no longer a man's game. Here's a glimpse of the article(c/o Huffington Post's Katie Maguire).

We interview Tristan Harris CEO of Apture in San Francisco. Tristan is an incredibly bright guy, you talk to him for a bit and your eager to go try Apture out. They have created an incredibly easy to use web based editor for sites to add a rich multimedia type of experience. You do all this by highlighting or selecting areas of your site and Apture literally does the rest. Tristan compares the Apture process to painting a story in a much deeper enriching way. A great point he makes in the interview is the comparison of remembering Microsoft Encarta and what a rich "multimedia" like experience cdroms gave us back in the day, an experience we have been missing on the web. Tristan says that Apture is delivering this rich experience for the web now and I have to say that I agree with him.

Another quick video interview (2:30 mins) from the Mashable Monthly SF party, we speak with Baynote Sales Development rep Krystel Ariel. The Baynote Collective Intelligence Platform™ delivers on-demand recommendations and social search for websites. Businesses use Baynote to automatically display the best content and products to website visitors.

PART 1 PART 2 This two part interview took place at Microsoft in San Francisco Bay Area .Net users group meeting. Vertigo CEO Scott Stanfield gave yet another awesome demo of what his development company has done with Silverlight. We talk about the amazing Hard Rock deep zoom project, photo display application slide.show , video application video.show , the state of rich internet application development, advertising, and more. I keep a close eye on Vertigo as I believe they are on the front lines of innovative web development, I would suggest you do the same.

Despite initially butchering the name "Disqus" pronounced "discuss" co-founder/ceo Daniel Ha was kind enough to speak with the Nerd Stalker crew. Daniels tells us what Disqus is, what happened during a brief down time and where this company is going. I expect this "widget" to do quite well.

This demo is way better on a computer, but it's pretty impressive that it could be done on an iPhone as well. I was really impressed with the simplicity and amount of services that Add to Any works with. Add to Any Pat Diven II, Founder & CEO Add to Any’s "Share/Save" and "Subscribe" widgets help your website visitors share, save and subscribe to your content using any service. http://www.addtoany.com

Welcome to the first episode of what I'm calling Nerd Stalker, in this episode we are at The San Francisco New Tech meeting held at Mighty . We start the first interview with a really great guy/CEO of Triggit Zach Coelius. In the following posts we get 4 of the companies that night on tape. Sorry Mike (Seeqpod) you were pitching some VC or something when it was your turn, next time. Widget demos that night (6/11/08) were: Seeqpod Mike Muldoon, CTO SeeqPod helps people find, discover, play, and enjoy "Playable Search" with an array of easy-to-use tools to make playlists, share, embed, and purchase results. From video to audio, slideshows, and Adobe Flash, SeeqPod accesses the vast multitude of rich media files and applications that exist online. http://www.seeqpod.com Clearspring Mike Harkey, Director, Business Development Clearspring offers a media platform that provides widget distribution, analytics, monetization and advertising solutions. http://www.clearspring.com Gy...