HNLondon - #HNLondon, May 2014
Tuesday 20 May 2014, 19:30 - 20:30
Cowper Street, London, Reino Unido
We are super excited to welcome Brian Leonard, co-founder and Chief Architect at Task Rabbit as a speaker at out next event. Brian will give a talk titled Startup Engineering, which is based on a guest lecture he gave at Stanford. He will cover tools and engineering approaches used at Task Rabbit and examine some of the product / engineering trade offs they encountered. We will also do a Q&A session with Gil Dibner of DFJ Esprit. In Gil's words, "I want people to submit their toughest, least pleasant, VC questions (anonymously), and I will do my best to answer in real time". This is your chance to find out everything you wanted to know about how Venture Capital works what are some pitfalls you should be aware of etc. If you want to submit a question in advance please email Jack Gavigan at [masked] . Videos from past events are online at http://vimeo.com/hnlondon We have 20 free tickets to give away for the Decoded Fashion Hackathon this weekend. THE PRIZE: A trip to San Francisco in October paid by AllSaints to meet with leaders in Silicon Valley, breakfast with AllSaints CEO and the chance to have the brand pilot the developed concept globally. www.FashionHackathon.com HOW CAN YOU JOIN: The first 20 HNLondon members can sign up to participate for free using the code HNLONDONVIP, if you don't make the first 20 there is a still an opportunity to sign up with 50% off using the same code. HNLondon is generously supported by Stripe is the best way to accept card payments on websites and in mobile apps. Stripe's APIs are flexible enough to support almost any payment experience; behind the scenes, Stripe takes care of the heavy lifting, from security to daily deposits to your bank account. Stripe powers payments for thousands of businesses of every size—from start-ups to blue chip companies including Shopify, Foursquare, Mixpanel, Heroku, Reddit, Lyft and Squarespace. Stripe's investors include PayPal co-founders Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and Elon Musk, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. Take a look at more of our users at stripe.com/gallery and get started at stripe.com. Secret Sales: When you finish a feature, can you release it with confidence right away, or do you have to wait days or weeks to find out what users think? Secretsales uses continuous delivery to get super-rapid feedback on all the features we build for our busy, successful online shopping site. In addition, we are a team of generalising specialists, ready at the drop of a hat to refine an algorithm, write a tricky integration test, tune a SQL query, or discuss feature nuances with a product manager. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment and lightning talks to share cool ideas whether work-related or not. Write to our CTO Squirrel at [masked] to find out more about jobs at Secretsales.
Publicado por: Miquel Camps