Matt Mickiewicz

Personal Blog of a Young Internet Entrepreneur

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DeveloperAuction Raises $2.7M Seed Round

From idea to reality in less than 12 months.

Bloomberg - How Donuts Gave Rise to Site Where Employers Can Bid on Engineers

Fortune - Software developers put themselves up for auction

Fortune - Venture capital deals (also included in their eNewsletter)

Forbes - DeveloperAuction Raises $2.7M For Tech Hiring Service

Dow Jones - DeveloperAuction Brings In $2.7M to Replace Recruiters

VentureBeat - DeveloperAuction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think

AllThingsD - DeveloperAuction Raises $2.7M for Novel Talent Marketplace

TheNextWeb - DeveloperAuction closes $2.7M round led by NEA and Sierra, to help companies find top technical talent

TechCrunch - DeveloperAuction Raises $2.7M From NEA, Google Ventures To Change The Way Technical Talent Is Hired

Silicon Valley Business Journal - DeveloperAuction raises $2.7M funding

Vator News - DeveloperAuction raises $2.7M to make hiring easier

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2012: A Year in Travel

7 trips to San Francisco, 4 trips to Vegas, 3 trips to New York.

Plus: Chicago (TechWeek), Miami (SOBE Fest), Napa Valley, Indianapolis (Superbowl), Park City (Sundance), Montreal, Belize, Hawaii, Dublin (F.ounders), Rome, Capri, Ravello, Positano, Florence, Tuscany, Portofino, Lake Como and Venice. 

According to TripIt I’ve done 189,450km in 2012.

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Some Great Posts To Finish The Year Off On.

The Age of Excellence by Jason Calacanis

Programming Your Culture by Ben Horowitz

How A16Z Evaluates CEOs

How to Get Startup Ideas by Paul Graham. Choice quote: “When you have an idea for a startup, ask yourself: who wants this right now? Who wants this so much that they’ll use it even when it’s a crappy version one made by a two-person startup they’ve never heard of? If you can’t answer that, the idea is probably bad.” 

I’ve been sending Paul’s article to a lot of people recently who have been asking me for advice… too many people are building something that’s only 10% or 20% better than the status quo. That’s not good enough. See Peter Diamandis’s “10X Cheaper, 10X Faster, 1000X Better”.

And I assume everyone has read “The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs”.