collaborativeconsumption

The MovementTIME names Collaborative Consumption as one of the “10 Ideas That Will Change The World”.Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping reinvented through network technologies on a scale and in ways never possible before. Watch the video.

keen-io

How I negotiated my startup compensation

Hi, I’m Michelle. I recently left my job as a technical consulting manager and joined my best friends and my fiancé, Kyle, at Keen.io (I wrote about that here). This is the story of how I negotiated my compensation.

The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and I'm getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding startup stock (equity) offers. More than one friend has suggested writing the advice down, so here it is.

statwing

Web-based statistical analysis software that speaks in plain english instead of arcane stats jargon.

optimizely

About Optimizely

Optimizely is an early-stage, well-funded startup based in San Francisco, California.

The company was founded by two former product managers from Google, Dan Siroker and Pete Koomen. Dan served as the Director of Analytics during the Obama 2008 presidential campaign. While there his team relied on the use of A/B and multivariate testing to maximize email sign-ups, volunteers, and donations to raise over $100 million in additional revenue for the campaign.

interviewstreet

Interviewstreet helps you to create customized programming tests (in any language) and evaluate candidates based on their programming skills before proceeding for an interview. We have built a codechecker which would evaluate an applicant’s code, checks against a set of test-cases letting you know how optimal his code is.

This acts as a time-saver for companies as you interact only with candidates who have cleared the benchmark.

silverback

Guerrilla usability testing software for designers and developers

  • Capture screen
  • Video the tester’s
  • Record the tester’s
  • Add chapter markers on-the-
  • Control recording with the
  • Export to Quicktime

 

docracy

What is Docracy?

Docracy is a social repository of contracts, legal agreements and other legal documents. Our mission is to make these documents freely available to the public. We also hope to make them easier to find, customize and execute. No more shady templates behind a paywall that you download hoping everything will be alright. Instead: reputable, transparent sources and social proof to help you find something as close as possible to the perfect document.

Also offers free document signing.

docusign

DocuSign is the global standard for electronic signature.Accessible anytime, anywhere, on any device, the DocuSign Global Network connects companies to their customers, partners, suppliers, and employees where they transact business in confidence. DocuSign helps customers decrease transaction cycle times, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction with the easiest, fastest, most secure global network for sending, signing, tracking, and storing documents in the cloud.

appdata

AppData is an independent application traffic tracking service of Inside Network, a division of WebMediaBrands, Inc. (NASDAQ: WEBM). Inside Network is the leading source for business information and market research on the Facebook platform and social gaming ecosystem. AppData is a tool for developers, investors, and analysts interested in tracking app traffic on the Facebook Platform and on mobile platforms. Inside Network is based in San Francisco, California.