Thursday, April 12, 2018

Blockchain Opportunities


blockchainjobz.com

Technical Project Manager @ Stellar

https://blockchainjobz.com/job/technical-project-manager-stellar

Stellar
San Francisco, CA
Apply on BlockchainJobz

Over 1 month ago
Full-time
Technical Project Manager @ Stellar Role Description As a Technical Project Manager at Stellar, you will be a key figure in the development and adoption of the Stellar network globally. We’re looking for someone hands-on, resourceful, and flawlessly organized to drive the initiatives of our growing, world class development team. You will coordinate and direct large-scale client integrations onto our network and will help lead our most strategic internal projects related to user engagement and adoption. Responsibilities Manage, plan, and direct development activities from launch to completion with overall responsibility for delivering high-quality deliverables on time and on budget Create and manage regular project and daily team meetings: Focus team on essential milestones and unlocking technical issues Steer multiple, competing priorities with suitable urgency to drive issues to completion Perform analysis, manage risk, and identify and drive necessary course corrections Capture and communicate meeting notes and actions and follow up on action items as needed Share project process frameworks, tools, and best practices that can be adopted throughout the organization Liaison productively with clients and be the point of contact for project-related needs Track and communicate project schedules and milestones Participate in technical discussions, ask probing questions, and work with the team to pull together scoping, schedules, and solutions to issues Implement continuous improvements to the engineering organization and the project management process Requirements 5+ years of experience managing software development projects, some of which took place in a startup or small company environment Track record of success and leadership demonstrated by a clear progression into roles of increasing responsibility Experience in Agile and Lean software delivery, Scrum experience preferred Excellent client-facing and customer service skills Ability to identify new business opportunities during client engagements Excellent time management, financial management, and leadership skills Proven ability to multi-task, work with tight deadlines, and prioritize tasks Excellent written and verbal communication skills Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment Curiosity about blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies a big plus About Stellar The Stellar network is an open payment platform that allows individuals, businesses, and institutions anywhere in the world to send money in any currency at a very low cost. Stellar’s goal is to transform financial systems by making money as easy to send as an email. The Stellar network is a peer-to-peer distributed global database, often referred to as blockchain technology. We have chosen to keep our code open-source in order to promote an inclusive software ecosystem that anyone can build upon and use

to apply -
https://jobs.lever.co/stellar/5307636d-ea38-4524-a2f6-243a50aad7c3
https://jobs.lever.co/stellar/5307636d-ea38-4524-a2f6-243a50aad7c3/apply


Hiring Crypto Developers:

Abra: https://www.abra.com/jobs/

IoTeX: https://iotex.io/careers

Aragon: http://wiki.aragon.one/jobs/

Decentraland: http://bit.ly/2L3ClKQ

Mobius: http://bit.ly/mobius_founding_engineer

Sponsors:

Join the ZCash Developer Community: https://www.zcashcommunity.com/

Decentraland: https://discordapp.com/invite/9EcuFgC

IoTeX: https://medium.com/iotex

Aragon: https://aragon.chat

Mobius: https://t.me/mobius_network

SFCDEVS Telegram: http://bit.ly/SFCDevs-telegram

SF Cryptocurrency Devs PREVIOUS EVENT VIDEOS:

Summa: Atomic, Cross-Chain Contracts (NEW!!): https://youtu.be/bSXUo6p1Xyk

The Technical Landscape of Aragon: https://youtu.be/jFjWjkhLPZ8

Scaling Bitcoin with Dr. Peter Rizun: https://youtu.be/CDh4AY2sFTg

A Hardcore workout with Bitcoin Core Dev Jeremy Rubin https://youtu.be/MJBhZg0ytiw


Meetups

SF Bitcoin Devs https://www.meetup.com/SF-Bitcoin-Devs/
Silicon Valley Bitcoin,

Stellar.org

Stellar.org San Francisco

Gregory Haardt's LinkedIn connection - STO of Stellar

Nicolas Barry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-barry/

Stellar
https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrentCompany=%5B%223877937%22%5D

One of the few things we're working on... Especially excited about this as it enables asynchronous transactions (think off network transactions enabled by mobile gateways) and as a way to achieve a good degree of anonymity.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6381614361215143936/
Lightning on Stellar: Technical Spec and Roadmap

Constellation Labs

Constellation Labs


https://constellationlabs.io/

white paper
https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/Whitepaper/blob/master/constellation_whitepaper_v0.1.pdf

An unbounded blockchain with microservices
https://medium.com/constellationlabs

The super knowledgeable Blockchain Brad presses the team on their credentials and backgrounds before going into technical detail and a competitor differentiation.
https://medium.com/constellationlabs/february-constellation-reviews-and-interviews-49d8cee9ae3d




Wednesday, April 4, 2018

DLT VC and Startups


DLT VC

State of Blockchain Report
134 blockchain startups with ICO

The total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $150B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $5,000), Walmart and Pfizer have completed successful blockchain pilots in food safety and medicine tracking, and initial coin offerings (ICOs) have exploded in popularity, closing on $2B+ in funding in 2017 alone

Fintech startup? Apply for ALPHA 2018
list of VCs

Alumni Ventures Group AVG Blockchain Fund
Join the Blockchain Fund Community
https://www.avgfunds.com/blockchain/blockchain-landing/
This is the smartest, simplest way for individuals to invest alongside top blockchain investors.
Join the Blockchain Fund Community

OVO Fund
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ovo-fund#section-overview
OVO Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in seed investments in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Palo Alto, California, United States
Founders
Charles Davis, Eric Chen
Micro VC, Venture Capital
Early Stage Venture, Seed
info@ovofund.com
(650)887-4628

OVO Fund is a seed stage venture capital firm that provides funding and support to startups at the earliest stages. We partner with exceptional teams with real technology looking to build transformative yet capital efficient businesses. OVO Fund leverages an extensive network of industry veterans, developed throughout our careers, to provide focused value-added capital to our entrepreneurs.

doublenovagroup.com

DLT Startups

San Francisco Blockchains Startup Jobs
24,394 of the world's best startups are hiring on AngelList


Blockchains Startups
$4.6M
AVERAGE VALUATION



https://angel.co/ripple-labs/jobs/281373-sr-or-principle-software-engineer-java

AI/ML

SafeGraph
Auren Hoffman
https://angel.co/safegraph/jobs



SABR
https://angel.co/sabr-io
Palantir for the blockchain
Ed Zimmerman
VC/LAW


Culture&

https://angel.co/culture-6
Behavioral Research+Ideation Salon combining research & tech with data sciences & people
Products:
(A) A digital experimentation platform using behavioral science-based methods for anyone to test easy, fun and relatable experiments.
(B) The data from these experiments feed into an interactive database with behavioral insights.

What does the product do?
These help companies understand people better and thus develop better product, HR or marketing/ branding strategies.

Current product competition:
- Slow-growth style 'agencies'
- Narrowly focused startups
- Academic circles with highly intellectual and beneficial, yet inaccessible theories to test in market
Ajantha Suriyanarayanan
Founder @Culture& • Worked at @Deloitte Consulting, @General Electric • Studied at @University of Illinois, Chicago, @University of Madras



Aikon
Betsabe Betsabe@aikon.com 415-533-4055
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/aikon#section-overview
https://www.aikon.com/
https://www.aikon.com/ORE-whitepaper.html

AIKON (pronounced “icon”) solves these problems by introducing an API rights protocol called Open Rights Exchange (ORE), which offloads the burden of API access control, API validation, and API payments to a shared infrastructure built on blockchain technology - the ORE network.

The ORE protocol is the underpinning technology for AIKON's end-to-end API marketplace that makes it easy for API providers to sell their APIs and for API consumers to discover, buy, and use them.



Angel Investors

Hermann Eul of Sand Hill Angels and Wade Luders of Band of Angels.https://foundersfloor.com/pitch-night-sand-hill-band-of-angels/?utm_source=meetup&utm_campaign=SVTECH