We hear it practically every day in the startup world. Building a great team is your single best chance of winning. Despite its importance, the science and the art of building great startup teams is still largely a mystery, even in 2015. The challenge is, building the perfect startup team is hard. Occasionally it can…
If you’re new to Colorado or have recently found yourself in and around the Colorado Technology Community, you’ve probably noticed something strange. We actually like one another. We’re friends with our competitors and we like to help strangers. We help out at every turn. Don’t believe me? Ask someone you want to meet for coffee…
The Death of Contingency Recruiting A Broken Business Model The majority of recruiters in Colorado and around the country have been working off of the contingency model. In this model, a recruiter works to find right the candidate for an open position and if that candidate gets hired, the company pays the recruiter a fee.…
We are often asked to help our friends in the community plan their next career move. Sometimes we can help them connect directly to a hiring manager- and sometimes the timing or skill sets are off target. One of the things that people find most valuable is our multi-step process to getting organized. Below you…
Moving to Colorado; An Incredible Success Story There are a few thousand people in Boulder this week for Boulder Startup Week. It’s a big week here and it’s one of our favorite weeks in town, where we get to show off one of Colorado’s coolest communities, with the highest per capita density of startups in…
We Have a Strict ‘No Assholes’ Policy, And You Should Too. As a boutique professional placement firm focused on startups, we need to make decisions daily (and often-times hourly) on where to spend our time and who to spend it with. In order to maintain the high ethical standards that we insist on internally, we…
A couple of weeks ago we started a series of posts about engagement. I promised to talk about how recruiters should engage with candidates and clients, how candidates should engage with recruiters and how clients should engage with recruiters. This week we are all about clients! Whee!! Throughout my recruiting career, I have found that client…
When we started Technical Integrity, we wanted to do things differently. I’m glad to say we’ve got a great foundation to turn the industry on it’s head- by building community and giving back; both literally and figuratively. We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished so far. Our business is ultimately to deliver at a high level…
As you know by now- a few weeks ago, darkness shrouded Aurora, Colorado when a delusional student walked into a movie theater with the sole intent of stealing peoples lives and their night out. Fear gripped the city and the nation with the possibility of copycat killers. People were asking why- and to this day,…
I think it was almost five years ago that I started attending a Meetup that everyone was talking about. “What was this Boulder Denver New Tech meeting?”, I’ve got to check it out, I thought. When I arrived, it was JAMMED with people. Standing room only, but everyone was welcoming and friendly- immediately someone said,…