Trevor Stafford

Stories

Hire IQ: 7 hiring tips for startups [Jul 06 2006]

It was the best of times...it was the burst of times [Jul 06 2006]

7 hiring tips for startups [Jul 06 2006]

Buzz on or buzz off about web 2.0 [Jul 07 2006]

Sales and the sales process [Jul 07 2006]

'Advisory' capital [Jul 09 2006]

Mr. What's next [Jul 10 2006]

Am I a hack? (what startups can learn from Red Canary) [Jul 15 2006]

Startup sales talent: the good, the bad, and the costly [Aug 27 2006]

"Shoeing the shoemakers" An interview with DevShop founder Craig Fitzpatrick [Sep 16 2006]

Birds of a frustrating feather: Songbird and Red Canary [Sep 18 2006]

A million shoes to fill: a profile of ChickAdvisor [Sep 25 2006]

Maple leaf startup: Cherry Chula [Oct 03 2006]

Smooth ex-operator [Oct 11 2006]

The entrepreneur-in-residence [Oct 30 2006]

Waterloo as technology ecosystem [Nov 09 2006]

Startup profile: QuickPlay Media [Nov 15 2006]

WhoTube? Whyspace? The startup story of gaming's billion dollar behemoth [Jan 22 2007]

Good on paper, gone in six months? [Feb 15 2007]

Career stall for technology workers: What it is, what to do about it. [Mar 15 2007]

Credit where credit's due [Mar 28 2007]

CEO-to-GO [Mar 29 2007]

Skipping class, winning big [Apr 10 2007]

10 interview horror stories [Apr 30 2007]

How much of a 'techie' are you? [May 09 2007]

Teching the plunge: Going from a large company to a small one [Jun 11 2007]

Geosign: Canada's quiet giant stubs its toe? [Jun 22 2007]

VIDEO: Microsoft Surface [Jul 11 2007]

Welcome to Red Canary [Jul 13 2007]

One Red Question - greatest tech challenge [Jul 20 2007]

One Red Question - Why won't tech professionals change cities? [Aug 01 2007]

One Red Question - What would it take for you to go green? [Aug 08 2007]

Canada's technology job market: hungry stomachs, empty larders [Sep 14 2007]

Don't plan your career? POLL [Oct 02 2007]

Top 20 Programming Languages of 2013 RESULTS [Oct 04 2007]

290,307 reasons why this is the best marketing I've ever seen from a Canadian technology company (VIDEO) [Oct 17 2007]

The best of Red Canary: Editor's Picks, 2007 [Dec 18 2007]

One Red Question: Should you get an award for ignoring your boss? [Feb 10 2008]

Red Canary's 'webpaper' 2008 [Feb 13 2008]

Agile as a management method and organizational philosophy [Feb 28 2008]

It's not you, it's me: A blind date guide to job descriptions that don't suck [Mar 10 2008]

One Red Question - Is your company lucky to have you or are you lucky to have them? [Mar 17 2008]

Crayon Physics demonstration (VIDEO) [Mar 20 2008]

R&D Compensation Survey Results Released [Apr 16 2008]

PROFILE: CiRBA -- The 9 year overnight success [May 13 2008]

Say what? Collected quotes from two+ years of canary duty [Jun 23 2008]

INTERACTIVE Rank Canada's top 20 'Web 2.0' companies [Jul 30 2008]

Work|Life Results 2008 QA [Oct 19 2008]

Top 10 programming languages of the future -- Revisited [Oct 27 2008]

Halloween Quiz! [Oct 30 2008]

One Red Question: Would you take a pay cut to keep your job? (POLL) [Dec 16 2008]

This tech CEO would clean toilets, would you? [Dec 18 2008]

Female Startup execs in the US make 10k less than male counterparts [Feb 20 2009]

Leadership, Group Performance and Bad Apples, what's your opinion? [Feb 22 2009]

Technology leaders among Waterloo Region's Top 40 Under 40 [Feb 26 2009]

Washington and NY are where the tech jobs are? The Valley is in a job rut? Dice.com's numbers say yes [Mar 12 2009]

Twitter me this: A Cdn Startup Twitter List [Mar 16 2009]

"How I got my (new) job through Twitter" [Mar 16 2009]

One Red Question: How close are you to doing 'what you were born to do' in terms of your career? [Mar 17 2009]

One Red Question: True or False, it's hard to tell a prospective 'A-player' employee from a 'B' or 'C' based only on their resume? [Mar 24 2009]

Tech jobs up by 77,000 across US in '08. Illusion? [Apr 02 2009]

Does your recruiting page look like this? (VIDEO) [Apr 15 2009]

Add some creativity to your resume, but perhaps not this much [May 06 2009]

Ryma launches Product Management 'Communities of Practice' [May 11 2009]

A Twitter business card, good idea? (Poll) [May 21 2009]

Bird on a Wire: Tech and career tips from around the 'Net [May 27 2009]

One Red Question: How much email do you receive per day? What percentage do you 'process'? [May 28 2009]

Bird on a Wire: Tech and Career links from around the 'Net June 8-13th [Jun 09 2009]

One Red Question: You're starting your own company. How many of your co-workers would you take with you? [Jun 19 2009]

One Red Case Study: Pursuing an M&A while protecting IP [Jun 29 2009]

Bird on a Wire: Tech links from around the 'Net (June 29-July 05) [Jun 30 2009]

One Red Question: What's your favourite summer work perk? [Jul 06 2009]

One Red Question: Could you be a successful technology entrepreneur? [Jul 27 2009]

Bird on a Wire: Tech links from around the 'Net (July 29th - August 2) [Jul 29 2009]

Fill in the blank: My Job is ________ [Jul 31 2009]

Profile: Points International [Aug 13 2009]

One Red Question: How much of your yearly vacation time do you actually take? [Aug 17 2009]

Bird on a Wire: Tech Links from around the 'Net [Sep 14 2009]

One Red Poll: Do you live paycheque to paycheque? [Sep 16 2009]

Vive Nano wins "Clean 15" Canadian Cleantech Competition [Oct 01 2009]

A great online resume is more than just a resume (and I'll prove it) [Oct 05 2009]

Bird on a Wire: Tech links from around the 'web [Oct 21 2009]

Interview: Dan Martell [Oct 29 2009]

One Red Question: Would you hire someone with a poor credit score? [Nov 03 2009]

Interview: Elizabeth Roe Pfeifer. VP, Organizational Development, Research in Motion [Nov 04 2009]

Comments on above stories

Comments

"That’s priceless! I wish I’d had that one beforehand, I would have made it eleven stories and not ten." [Jul 03 2007 13:04]

"In case you don’t know what PHB means (I didn’t) it’s an acronym for Pointy-haired-boss. Here’s a link to the wikipedia entry for it: “Pointy Haired Boss”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_boss" [Jul 03 2007 13:07]

"Please add your logos here." [Jul 03 2007 23:22]

"One of the reactions I had (yeah, to my own question, I know) was “how much responsibility would I have in my new role, less or more?”. Should I have included a choice that had decision-making or responsibility as a factor?" [Aug 08 2007 18:05]

"In this case it would be a company that actually produces or distributes a green or environmentally-sensitive product. Good examples might be: Bullfrog PowerBallard Power SystemsZenon Environmetal Inc.(http://www.zenon.com)Envirotower (http://www.…" [Aug 09 2007 12:10]

"I agree with you Art. But I suspect that people who choose Bullfrog are already acutely conscious of the energy they consume. In a small way they are adding green energy offsets for consumers who only pay lip service to the idea of power conservati…" [Aug 14 2007 09:53]

"Agreed that both are markup tools, but I couldn't put a list like this together without them, and I couldn't come up with an umbrella term for everything. Future technologies? Yuck. If you wanted to get really picky you could point out that transac…" [Aug 30 2007 16:35]

"Hi Nick, I’ve added it for you." [Sep 05 2007 12:02]

"A) Don’t get me wrong, I love that video and I ‘am’ that code monkey. B) Steve Jobs also makes the 50-to-1 comment on page 12 of “In the Company of Giants”." [Sep 18 2007 15:25]

"This is what I understand based on conversations with hiring managers in both KW and Toronto: it doesn't matter what the incentives are, whether its salary or seniority, people simply won't pack up and move. I think Ethan's response is bang on&#823…" [Sep 21 2007 08:14]

"That doesn't seem to be true in terms of giving up a job to work for a ‘greentech' or ‘cleantech' company however. 33% of respondents (so far) would take a pay cut to take. I hear what you're saying though, and agree. In the profile of …" [Sep 21 2007 08:20]

"That’s a great answer Tim! I might run with the idea that every startup ‘must’ have one superstar developer." [Sep 21 2007 08:28]

"Seven of the top 10 “languages” of 2001 are not near the top in 2007, and some are not even on the list, so I'm going to volunteer that non-stop learning is the key to a developer's employability. Choose a single language and you may co…" [Sep 21 2007 08:43]

"I agree Luis, how can you take a survey that tries to predict the future seriously? You can't. But you can infer from the list of 2001 that change happens quickly and that the evolution of web/coding technologies is not always linear. That has valu…" [Sep 25 2007 09:42]

"I think we should ask Rapidmind that question, since they are in the “parallel coding for multi-core” space." [Sep 25 2007 17:12]

"Hi Brandon. Clicking the featureplan link above should take you to a page where you can choose either a flash presentation or a downloadable podcast. http://www.featureplan.com/recordings/webinars/requiremen…" [Oct 02 2007 13:19]

"Go ahead and contact Mario at mario(at)laudi(dot)com Thanks for writing Igor." [Oct 17 2007 13:51]

"Yeah! That's my dream gift. I mean, peace on Earth above all things. But an iPhone….oh sweet, sweet technology. I'll also need an end to the monopoly that Canadian wireless carriers currently enjoy. That way I'll be able to afford to use one.…" [Dec 18 2007 12:43]

"I have a question or two for you Cadman. You started at Platespin as VP of Product Management as well as Marketing, was there a transition from a technology-focused Product Management strategy (building the product) to a market-focused one? Can y…" [Jan 28 2008 12:05]

"Refreshing interview Dave, thank you. Here’s a question, is the fact that your market spends so little on technology a help or a hindrance? Does it make it easier or harder to get in the door and show your product’s value?" [Jan 29 2008 15:31]

"You may be saying “what does it matter if recruiters like my resume, I've never had trouble finding a job”. If all you're looking for is a job, then that's fine. But if you're looking to work on the most challenging projects and with th…" [Feb 25 2008 15:41]

"My question is this: If Waterloo Region tends to recruit internally and via home-grown university talent, wouldn't that limit growth? I'm not talking about finding more developers, I'm suggesting that this model presents a finite number of experi…" [Feb 29 2008 16:29]

"I’ll try to come up with something more challenging for you Colin : ) Ideas are welcome." [Mar 04 2008 14:57]

"I couldn't agree with you more. What you're suggesting is another piece of the puzzle in terms of a holistic approach to hiring. HR (and/or hiring managers) could to take a few lessons from product management and marketing here: devise a strategy, …" [Mar 13 2008 13:42]

"There is a symmetry. But I certainly can't take credit for it : ) What I can do, however, is create a tag for articles that reference ‘innovation' in some way. You'll see it in the related ideas area of the right side of this page. Or just cl…" [Mar 13 2008 14:13]

"International tech news:International Herald TribuneProduct Reviews and information:Tom’s Hardware—can’t say enough good things about this siteBusiness and technology:Bnet.comStartup perspectives:Found |ReadOnStartups" [Apr 01 2008 09:55]

"Yes. But there weren't enough submissions to put the numbers forward. What I may do is put together a single page for contractors and avoid the problem of having to drill down. Hopefully we'll see a surge in submissions from both contractors and …" [Apr 17 2008 10:01]

"Here’s a link to more images of Idee’s beautiful office, courtesy of Ali Asaria’s flikr collection" [Apr 17 2008 10:29]

"Hi Jeff, yep, professional services is on the horizon, but it's easily the most difficult survey to put together, it's both broad (not in the 1950s Rat Pack slang sense) and deep. Up next is product management, then sales, then professional service…" [Apr 17 2008 10:42]

"Yep. It should be! Thanks for reminding me. It should be up-to-date now." [Apr 17 2008 14:12]

"The numbers are base salary only. Most of the branches of the survey have a question that asks whether or not you get a bonus, and what your bonus is as a percentage of your income." [Apr 19 2008 15:07]

"This will sound strange, but the most important lesson I've learned is that I don't know anything. I've been in advertising and marketing most of my career. I've noticed that the gap between what I truly know and what I ‘think' I know is a da…" [Apr 29 2008 14:01]

"Perfectly good question Clark. I can only assume that the layoffs weren't public knowledge. However, I doubt you could find many successful companies that haven't suffered from expansion/compression convulsions at some point in their evolution. I'…" [Jun 12 2008 16:30]

"Wow. I’m sure Alan stands humbly corrected. I know I do : )" [Jul 23 2008 16:44]