My company suffers from a type of projected hubris.
We are a succesful startup that loves technologies and is run by people who love other new startups and businesses. The result is that we are often very willing to integrate new programs, ideas and technologies into our business: we use Twitter for internal communications, Google for our business apps, Vox for article sharing, Gliffy for presentation building, and until today ItzBig for resume review and resume sharing.
Why Until today? Today ItzBig shut down and is closing up shop because it ran out of money, and ran away with our money as it happens. ItzBig required an upfront deposit in order to use its services which it then drew on as it hunted for resumes — similar to how Yahoo operates it’s SEM program for many companies.
The chances of us getting our deposit back are probably a big fat zero. So where was the guy that is supposed to say “They’re a startup, we should probably find a more established firm”? Well, we don’t like hiring those people because they don’t fit with our model of pushing the envelope of technological advancement which we pursue strongly on our backend as well as our front end.
It goes back to that old Latin expression ‘caveat anter per nur,’ which roughly translated means, ‘not all startups make good business partners but don’t change your culture — just be careful’ … or something like that.
that looks like it actually means “warning before something something”
It was a joke — or a play on words. Wait for it….wait for it…
It takes a lot of guts to put a pun like that on your blog, nicely done.