12 Silicon Valley Tech Startup Job Search Tips

1. Indicate on Linkedin that you are an available candidate, a service offered by their premium plan
2. Consider having a portfolio, works and arts to show rather than just a resume
3. Previous startup experience is a huge plus. Startup founders and teams look for like minded people who can hustle and deal with the startup crunch
4. Check the job board for alumni offered by your university. 
5. Google and read information about the company on the internet. Any info on the internet is fair game in the interview process.
6. Prepare for phone screening interviews with recruiters. Sometimes these calls are scheduled quickly after resume submission when a position needs to be fulfilled.
7. Be ready for coding and technical interviews over the phone. Silicon Valley is tech savy even recruiters known how to ask a technical question or two.
8. Brush up on software and web based technical skills. Silicon valley is very software heavy except for Apple and a few other places.
9. If you are applying for an data analyst job, be prepared to be interviewed like a junior data scientist. Even the business roles can be technical in nature.
10. Use new job sites such as White Truffle, Hired, Muse ... in addition to traditional sites like Linkedin, job boards etc.
11. Take an advanced online course to brush up your skills or learn cutting edge technology such as self driving car on Udacity.
12. Research the technical stack used by the startup

Machine Learning Resources: Stanford Youtube Machine Learning by Andrew Ng

All of Stanford's machine learning course by Andrew Ng (not the coursera version) is posted on Youtube. Here's the course material site: http://cs229.stanford.edu/ and here's the video playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E&list=PLA89DCFA6ADACE599 This lecture series is a full-version academic course on Machine Learning that has and is Stanford University rigor. Its machine learning slides can be found here http://cs229.stanford.edu/materials.html

Hugo Barra Googler Xiaomi VP Joins Facebook VR - Startup News

Hugo Barra once a senior Googler, Xiaomi global VP will join Facebook VR and leads all Facebook VR efforts.

After spending years at Google and rumored to had been ousted due to personal and leadership differences with the Google founders, Hugo Barra had spent many years building Xiaomi under founder Leijun in China. Xiaomi has since then developed many hardware products, viral phone strategies and expanded to India.

Hugo will lead and shape the vision of Oculus VR at Facebook. He may not be as famous as Steve Jobs, but he essentially is one of the most experienced super tech product manager and leader in the Silicon Valley and the world. Facebook will need his experience scaling giant tech companies as well as dealing with China, a market that Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has been courting.

iOS prototyping design tool: prototyping notepad

Google UX UI prototyping design team and many silicon valley startups use paper prototyping tools such as this iOS screen real estate user flow notepad.

Machine Learning Stanford on Youtube Lecture 02 Notes

• Agenda: linear regression, gradient descent and normal equations
• Machine learning notations and conventions

Note this is not the coursera course. This is the long youtube version of the Stanford.

Seth Godin Marketing Wisdom quote on story telling

Seth Godin marketing class on skillshare bestselling author in business and marketing.  Growth hacking marketing tips and quotes by Seth Godin.

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Marketing and advertising were the same thing, but going forward that's not what marketing is. 

Marketing is the act of telling a story to people who want to hear it, making that story so vivid so true, that people who hear it tell other people.

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Monetize WordPress How to add adsense to free WordPress site

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How to add google adsense ad to free wordpress site, meaning a website that is not advanced hosted wordpress or custom domain. It used to easy: simply generate an ad unit in adsense, copy and paste the code to WordPress layout sidebar widget, text widget. It no longer works. You will have to subscribe to the $8 dollar premium plan to use WordAd. To monetize your WordPress site, you will now have to pay for a premium plan. Keep in mind you want to reach a small critical mass of audience on your blog before you can monetize your blog and only then does it make monetary sense to monetize your site.