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Re:Tech salary insights from 1.2M foreign worker visas on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @01:31PM (#8356632)
agreed -- there's no uniformity in how companies fill out these apps; for example, as I briefly mentioned in the post but didn't look far into, even the company name "Google" was typed in 3 or 4 ways
Re:Tech salary insights from 1.2M foreign worker visas on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @01:29PM (#8356618)
one piece which i tried to mention here is that salar.ly and LCA don't incorporate equity, incentive bonuses, and other pieces of compensation; this is just the base salary submitted in the application. for example ex-Google friend immediately felt like Google was too low, since a significant % of their comp is tied to incentive bonuses; and for startups, you'd have to consider the dollar value of equity
Re:Tech salary insights from 1.2M foreign worker visas on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @01:27PM (#8356604)
that's really interesting; there are so many caveats with the data that i almost thought it wasn't worth sharing, but we can let people draw conclusions themselves (and hopefully follow-up with other analyses, comments, etc)

if you don't mind, %-wise, how much more were you paid than your LCA? and do you think this is representative of others?

Re:Tech salary insights from 1.2M foreign worker visas on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @01:26PM (#8356585)
i agree, despite industry complaints about how "high" they are and how quickly they've risen; having been on multiple sides of this, i think the value that a good engineer adds is still not reflected in compensation, especially in smaller companies (eg, less than a few hundred people); it's part information asymmetry, part culture
Re:Tech salary insights from 1.2M foreign worker visas on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @01:24PM (#8356559)
agreed -- it varies significantly based on company culture, size
Re:ITunes Will Soon Be Obsolete on Thursday June 07, 2012 @01:57PM (#4080363)
interesting to me to see the parallels between music and books. seems that music has always been a bit ahead on the innovation curve for a variety of reasons and we're just getting to the itunes for books (eg, kindle), now...

Change Publishing. Join Hyperink (YC W11)

Posted by kevingao1 on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @03:14PM
from the now-hiring dept.

About UsWe’re a hacker-friendly team of ten with big plans to change how books are created and sold.Hyperink’s investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Lerer Ventures (the founders of HuffPo), SV Angel, and others. Our launch was featured in Forbes, BusinessWeek, and TechCrunch, among others.Here are some of the problems we're solving:1. Publishing for Developers: Our applications...

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Help us become the world's biggest ebook publisher. Hyperink (YC W11, A16z)

Posted by kevingao1 on Monday March 05, 2012 @04:55PM
from the now-hiring dept.

About UsWe’re a fast-moving hacker-friendly team with big plans to change how books are created and sold.Hyperink’s investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Lerer Ventures (the founders of HuffPo), SV Angel, and others. Our launch was featured in Forbes, BusinessWeek, and TechCrunch, among others.Here are some of the problems we're solving:1. Publishing for Developers: Our...

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Fullstack engineer? Join Hyperink’s core team (YC W11)

Posted by kevingao1 on Monday January 30, 2012 @01:23PM
from the now-hiring dept.

Who we are:A hacker-friendly team of 8 with big plans to grow and disrupt the publishing industry.Hyperink’s investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Lerer Ventures, and SV Angel.Publishing for Developers: Our applications and services include a collection of web APIs and interfaces to enable our team, self publishers, and developers publish more quickly.AI + NLP: We use AI, machine...

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Re:A "lifestyle" business with 30M uniques/month: the story of wikiHow on Saturday December 17, 2011 @09:40PM (#3365731)
amazing what wikiHow has done to tackle the problem of creating quality content at scale. go jack and team!!

Fullstack engineer? Join Hyperink’s core team (YC W11)

Posted by kevingao1 on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @04:34PM
from the now-hiring dept.

About UsWe're a hacker-friendly team of six with big plans to grow and disrupt the publishing industry.Hyperink’s investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Lerer Ventures, and SV Angel.Here are some problems we're working on -Publishing for Developers: Our applications and services include a collection of web APIs and interfaces to enable our team, self publishers, and developers...

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Hyperink (YC W11) just launched - help pick our next book

Posted by kevingao1 on Thursday October 27, 2011 @02:23PM
from the self-post dept.

Hi guys, we recently published a book with Mixergy about PG, and we got a ton of great feedback from this community. We've been working hard to fix all of the mentioned issues, in particular that it was unclear exactly what was in the book, the formatting issues on Kindle, and so forthWe'd like to make it up to you guys and let you decide what our next book will be - leave a comment with any...

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Re:Ask HN: Help us choose our next book on Thursday October 27, 2011 @02:16PM (#3164650)
Hi guys, we recently published a book with Mixergy about PG, and we got a ton of great feedback from this community. We've been working hard to fix all of the mentioned issues, in particular that it was unclear exactly what was in the book, the formatting issues on Kindle, and so forth

We'd like to make it up to you guys and let you decide what our next book will be - leave a comment with any topic(s) that you would love to read a book on, and we'll find a great author and publish the book that receives the most comments.

Also, we'll offer the whole book for free to download here when its published

You can reach us via email too: [email protected]

Thanks!

Re:Paul Graham: The Art of Funding a Startup on Monday October 10, 2011 @07:11PM (#3096296)
Also, thanks a ton for the feedback - we're updating the product description on Nook and Kindle so that it's clear that the content is from Andrew's interview.
Re:Paul Graham: The Art of Funding a Startup on Monday October 10, 2011 @07:00PM (#3096256)
All - just want to re-affirm Andrew's points and provide some more clarification - we're the publisher behind the eBook, and we did partnered with Andrew/Mixergy to do it.

In short, we work with domain/subject-matter experts to publish high-quality eBooks. Some we create ourselves, some we work with publishers who already have great content (eg, Mixergy).

Since we're a startup there's still a lot that we need to improve, but one thing we're doing is making the books more interactive, and for PG's book we'll be adding video clips from the interview. Unfortunately Kindle doesn't have an easy way to provide existing customers an update, but if you did buy the book, please email me ([email protected]) and I'll share it with you.

Also, if you have knowledge on any topic that people would pay to learn more about, and want to create a beautiful, high-quality eBook to share that knowledge, please reach out to me - we're actively recruiting authors. A big thing of ours is sharing a lot of the content for free, it's not purely altruistic since that's great for building loyalty and traffic too. Thanks!

Kevin, Founder of Hyperink

PS Right now hyperink.com has almost nothing on it, we'll be launching a marketplace for our eBooks and our authors in the next 2 weeks

YC-backed digital publisher looking for an early backend engineer

Posted by kevingao1 on Friday August 12, 2011 @09:06PM
from the now-hiring dept.

Hi, we're Hyperink and we're building a new kind of book publisher.We're a team of 5, and are looking for a backend engineer to join us.[Who are we?]We’re a team of 5 with diverse backgrounds (shopkick, Google, McKinsey, Microsoft, Simon & Schuster) and we’ve published our own ebooks in the past (one is making more than $100K/year). Our office is in SoMa, near South Park.We were in the...

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Re:Our 10 Step Engineering Hiring Process at Mixer Labs on Monday June 06, 2011 @05:33PM (#2626787)
great article, elad. i actually prefer working for a longer period of time together, like a week, pay for their time and have a specific goal/project in mind, to get a mutually better sense of what the day to day is like.
Re:Questions you’ll (probably) get asked at your YC interview on Saturday April 23, 2011 @11:43AM (#2476997)
another great quote along these line (who knows if rumor or not): "we never would've invented the ipod with a/b testing"

think there's a good balance between customer development/research and your own instinct/vision

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