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As most people who subscribe to this blog know, blist raised $6.5M from Frazier Technology Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures earlier this year. While raising money does tend to be picked up and reported on by journalists, it really is a non-event. What matters is what you do with the capital you’ve raised. After all, the [...]
Continue Reading →We had our first board meeting last week. One of the topics we covered was the status of the team. We have a great, small, core team at blist, but there’s no doubt we need to grow judiciously in a number of areas – engineering, marketing and product management for starters. One of our new [...]
Continue Reading →blist will be at the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering recruiting Fair this Tuesday, February 12. The event is from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the atrium of the Paul G. Allen center. If you’re a standout UW CSE student looking for a summer internship or a full-time software engineering role, be [...]
Continue Reading →Lots of folks have been sending us notes saying they want to get involved with blist in a big way. Maybe none of our open roles exactly describes you. Don’t let that deter you. Define your own role. The reality is, at a startup there’s no such thing as a perfectly defined role. We all [...]
Continue Reading →blist will launch in beta at DEMO next week. We’ve been working hard on fixing bugs, stabilizing the application, getting our production system up and running, etc. What’s sometimes overwhelming is how many features we already have on the product backlog. The main inhibitor to adding these features is simply engineering bandwidth. We’ve been interviewing [...]
Continue Reading →blist is hiring across all disciplines. I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you what you can expect when interviewing at blist. Assuming we’ve been introduced via email, I’ll usually first ask a software engineering candidate to complete a programming challenge that you can find on our website . If you’re not a programmer, [...]
Continue Reading →We’re looking to hire our first engineer focused on ops automation. This is primarily a software engineering role, although to be successful you’ll need to have roots in and a passion for systems administration. At blist systems engineers develop software that automates as much of operations as possible. The goals are fully lights out operation [...]
Continue Reading →As many of you know, we recently moved from Kirkland to the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle. I wanted to share some of the motivations behind the move. The simple answer is recruiting. This is where the top talent wants to work. We want to hire top talent, so it boosts our chances of hiring [...]
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