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My new job at Rubicon Project

Allen Lew — Wed, 12 May 2010 01:58:18 +0000

If you haven’t heard the news yet, I am leaving my current job at the Los Angeles Urban League after a good three years with the company. At the league, I was at times a youth mentor, interview coach, webmaster, and then also found some time to do my regular job of fixing computers and providing technical support as a member of the IT department.

However, I recently received an amazing opportunity to join up with The Rubicon Project, an internet company with a “mission to automate the $65 billion global online advertising industry.” There I will be working alongside their Engineering Team doing Quality Assurance for the Project’s platform. It’s a great new opportunity to work with great new people, but it’s also bitter sweet to leave a place you have been working at for a little while. To all my coworkers at the League, good luck to all of you. And to all my new coworkers at Rubicon, I look forward to meeting all of you.

If you want to know more about the company, I’ve enclosed a Youtube video of the Rubicon Project’s HQ after the jump:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brbAtR3jn-4[/youtube]

“How we set up a non-profit by the seat of our pants”

Allen Lew — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:26:46 +0000

A few months ago, I wrote up a list of Startup guides where people like Evan Williams and Nick Denton gave a list of which web apps they were using to help their web companies. I also said they were good for a nonprofit, as well as a startup. Well, after scouring the web for a while, I found this guide to “setting up a non-profit by the seat of our pants”. As time goes, I’ll probably write of these myself soon. Stay tuned.

Startup Guides

Allen Lew — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:49:51 +0000

A few blog posts about some other software and Internet services that might be useful for starting up a company (or nonprofit).

Read and Write Web’s Software for Virtual Teams
Nick Denton’s (owner of Gawker and Lifehacker) Startup Kit
Evan Williams’s (founder of blogger.com) list of business web apps
Added: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Web 2.0: Top 25 Apps to Grow your Business

In summary, you’ll need these applications the most:

Email- Gmail is the most popular.
Calendar to keep track of time- Google Calendar couples with Gmail, both can be used with your domain
Project Management to keep track of what needs to be done- Basecamp and FogBugz
VoIP for cheap Internet phone calls. Skype is the most recommended, though Jajah and Gizmo Project seem to be gaining.
A blog- They’ve recommended Typepad and Blogger, but I still recommend WordPress (there’s also a hosted version)

Companies I’d like to Profile (but don’t exist)

Allen Lew — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:50:02 +0000

Companies I’d like to Profile (but don’t exist)-Great ideas for Internet companies to startup Related posts:“How we set up a non-profit by the seat of our pants” The “danger” of Online Surveys A nice list of non-profit web tools Related posts: