Archive for May, 2007

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

DarkGreenPC is looking for an open source project leader

I’m announcing today at the Mesh 07 conference a small initiative that I am helping Zerofootprint co-ordinate.
DarkGreenPC is a non-profit, community organized open source project inspired by Seti@Home and Distributed.net where we are going enable people to optimize the power usage of their computers collectively and turn energy saving into a social activity.
I’m an advisor [...]

6 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Community, Standout Jobs by austin

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Speaking in Toronto this week

I’m in Toronto all week and will be speaking at the following events.
JCI Toronto Entrepreneurship talk: Tomorrow night be speaking about entrepreneurship and my experience starting companies at the Junior Chamber International’s Young Entrepreneurs association Toronto chapter. Tuesday May 29th, 6:30pm - JCI Toronto - Delta Chelsea Hotel. There is a $55 registration fee [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Conference, Personal by austin

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Standout Jobs is looking for Ruby Guru

While I was on vacation last week, my partners in Standout Jobs prepared a little video explaining the type of person we are hoping to have join our team as a founding employee.
I’m sorry I missed the filming because it looks like they had a great time.
If you know of anyone (include yourself as someone [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Standout Jobs, Talent Search by austin

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

You Need to Standout to Hire the Best - Announcing Standout Jobs

I’ve been spending a lot of my time on recruiting lately.  It’s long and hard work to find and assess how great people will fit within our culture. Even though it’s hard, I love to recruit. Creating great teams is part of what I love doing as an entrepreneur. 
At Akoha we hired 5 developers in the [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Akoha, Standout Jobs, Talent Search by austin