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I enjoyed this post from James…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

I enjoyed this post from James Governor about how Amazon AWS is fighting the "must hire young" movement in tech. This made me think about the WordPress workforce in ten years or so. Since we can expect an increase in older…

Introducing a new way to find high quality WordPress jobs

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2017

PlanetPost Status Team Blog

The Post Status Job Board is a great place to find and list quality WordPress jobs. Whether you're recruiting excellent candidates or are seeking your next job opportunity, it's the place for you.

Automattic has hired a renowned designer in newly created role

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Design

John Maeda is a well-known designer, who most recently hails from the extremely reputable VC firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Wired has a pretty good summation on his background and qualifications. At Automattic, he's filling a role they advertised…

JavaScript for WP course update and enrollment details

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2016

Business

If you have been interested in the JavaScript for WP course, administered by Zac Gordon, then now is the time to sign up. The course has been under development for several months, and is now available for registration. The course…

Growing a lifestyle business without losing the lifestyle

Nate Wright

May 26, 2016

BusinessPlanet

Balancing a lifestyle business -- and trying to grow it -- can be tricky, when you're not willing to give up your lifestyle for that growth. There are ways to grow your business without giving up the lifestyle you began it all for, right?

Follow-up on Server Pilot

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2016

BusinessHosting

I talked to Justin Samuel, the CEO of Server Pilot, on the phone today, to do a bit of follow-up after my last post. I'm still intrigued by Server Pilot, which I see as unique in our space right now,…

Alex Turnbull at Groove shares some…

February 26, 2016

Alex Turnbull at Groove shares some tips on hiring that he's learned while scaling his team. Quite applicable to remote teams or hybrid remote teams in the WordPress space.

The team at Yoast is looking…

February 17, 2016

The team at Yoast is looking to add to their WordPress core contributions, and have three projects specifically they would love help on. They are also interested in hiring a full time developer contributor for core work, if you think…

I don’t often do hiring news,…

February 4, 2016

I don't often do hiring news, but I may as well do a second while I'm at it. Aaron Jorbin has joined Happytables as CTO after a time at Condé Nast. Aaron's hiring is one of a couple of managerial…

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2015

DraftHosting

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, and founder and CEO of Automattic. In this interview, we talk about their new WordPress.com editor, and more.

Client feature section, woot woot! WebDevStudios…

November 25, 2015

Client feature section, woot woot! WebDevStudios built a hiring site for Uber. This is a nice marketing example of WordPress, for a huge brand. 10up Client and overall neat organization StoryCorp got featured on Google's homepage for their Thanksgiving Listen campaign. I can't…

Million dollar products

Brian Krogsgard

August 27, 2015

BusinessDesign

Kyle Neath isn't a fan of Unicorn culture in tech-land. He would like to see more people aim to create what he qualifies as family businesses, and aim for smaller (more niche) customer bases, provide better service, build companies that…

Freelance WordPress writers, and other tips for promoting products

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2015

A recent post on WPKube goes fairly in-depth on how to promote new WordPress products. Overall, it's a pretty thorough guide, even if I don't think every aspect of the guide is the best route. What I found interesting was…

Hiring techniques

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2015

Mario Peshev has a super thorough post on his blog that outlines a number of techniques for outsourcing and hiring remote talent. He discusses pros and cons of hiring industry experts, building up junior developers, and teaching interns. He also…

What the WordPress community can learn from Drupal

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2015

John Eckman has done a second annual post on what the WordPress community can learn from Drupal. It's quite good, and quite thorough. Here's his tl;dr version, but the whole post is certainly worthwhile: What can the WordPress community learn…

The growing pains of company blogging

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

Gregory Ciotti has some really good advice for getting through the growing pains on your company blog over on Help Scout. Blogging for a corporate entity is damn hard. Most organizations have a hard time with it, if they even try.…

I enjoyed this post from James…

Introducing a new way to find high quality WordPress jobs

Automattic has hired a renowned designer in newly created role

JavaScript for WP course update and enrollment details

Growing a lifestyle business without losing the lifestyle

Follow-up on Server Pilot

Alex Turnbull at Groove shares some…

The team at Yoast is looking…

I don’t often do hiring news,…

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Client feature section, woot woot! WebDevStudios…

Million dollar products

Freelance WordPress writers, and other tips for promoting products

Hiring techniques

What the WordPress community can learn from Drupal

The growing pains of company blogging

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