Getting Settled

It's been a few a weeks since my last post and A LOT has happened in a short time. I've attended several networking events. We rented office space and, most importantly, we've successfully placed a handful of candidates.

Last week I went to the Velocity 2011 conference in Santa Clara because I saw that a few of our clients like Quantcast, Amazon and Akamai were going to be there. The noteworthy thing about the conference was that several large companies like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Amazon and Salesforce were all there exhibiting for the sole purpose of recruiting for new employees. This was a very engineer/developer focused show so that was who they were trying to attract, but what's noteworthy is that each of these companies spent 10K+ to exhibit at this show. The market in the Bay is very competitive for good talent.

As for the administrative stuff, we've rented an office space in Berkeley, CA, right next to UC Berkeley, about 20 min from San Francisco. The office is set up with High Speed Internet and it's conveniently across the street from a BART station to make access to SF very easy. Having an office is great and I really appreciate the additional focus I'm able to dedicate to my work by being here. Yesterday the AC Lion name plate was put up outside our door, making us official!