#wade foster

[lowat-golden-tower]

more fanart of my oc’s. granted this particular flavor of shenanigans never happens in my personal fan session- this is from a different one where i happen to be using said oc’s

[lowat-golden-tower]

been meaning to upload this. art of another fan kid from my session, wade foster. poor guy’s about to get his shit wrecked.

[lindaseccaspina]

Meet Wade Foster at Ladies Who Lunch

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For the table to table fashion show at Ladies Who Lunch we will have Lanark County’s own Wade Foster on the fiddle to provide the music.

Born and raised in Perth, ON, Wade is known all over the Ottawa Valley and beyond as a multi-instrumentalist and singer. He is most recognized as a versatile…

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[dragoni]

Read the rest of Wade's post on finding and hiring, as well as, the discussion on HN

Defining Characteristics of a Top-Notch Remote Worker

Great remote workers have a few traits that make them successful:

Propensity towards action: This is the type of person that devoid of a task list given to them, they'll find something meaningful to do.

Able to prioritize: Often times, important tasks can be unclear when working remotely (especially at a startup). An individual who can focus on the right tasks and know to ignore others will do well.

Proficient written communicator: Most communication in a remote team happens via text—email, team chat, or one-on-one private messages. If someone struggles to write clearly and concisely, they'll struggle in a remote team. Equally as important is being able to show tact in written communication, too. It's all-to-easy to come off as curt via text. Liberal use of emoticons can go a long way.

Trustworthy: If you can't trust the person, then not being able to see them every day is going to cause you to lose sleep. Make sure you trust who you hire.

Local support system: If the only support system someone has is their work one, then being in a remote environment will likely make them go crazy. You need people who have outside support systems so they have people they can interact with on a daily/weekly basis.

[coreygwin]

Reality Makers 3: Wade Foster of Zapier

In this third episode of Reality Makers, I talk with Y Combinator alum Wade Foster, the incredibly inspiring CEO and co-founder of the quickly growing Zapier. Check out the highlights below!

Episode 3 Highlights

0:54 - Q: Who is Wade Foster? 1:40 - Q: What spurred your interest into entrepreneurship? 2:33 - "My first foray into entrepreneurship was through music." 4:31 - "At my first internship at 'Big Corp'...I did spreadsheets. I hated it. I'd spend 15-30 minutes doing actual work and my bosses loved it. I couldn't imagine doing this for 40 more years." 6:06 - "They didn't know anything about marketing either. I didn't know anything about marketing. So they couldn't call me out on stuff. I'd suggest all kinds of things! I learned a ton." 6:50 - "I finally decided that I really do want to own my own business. I want to do this for myself because it was so much fun being able to control your own destiny. I finally realized that I could turn entrepreneurship into something I can do." 8:50 - Q: Why did you decide to team with your co-founders? 9:30 - "Even if we weren't doing Zapier together. We'd still be friends. I think that's how some of the best co-founder relationships work--when there's something more that connects the two of you than just your startup." 10:24 - Q: How do you and your co-founders balance each other out? 11:15 - Q: Where did the idea for Zapier come from? 12:35 - "Customers were always asking for integrations with other products...Between the three of us we thought, 'Man there should be a product that exists that lets people do this stuff.'" 15:57 - "Even our beta customers paid us some amount of money to use the product." 16:20 - Q: Why $100? "$100 is significant. It's not chump change but not so much a business couldn't pay for it." 17:15 - Q: Why Y Combinator? Why do you think you were able to get in? 19:24 - "Whether they [partners] liked it or not, they would judge you based on the seriousness of the company. Three random guys from Missouri just didn't sound as serious as Silicon Valley, Y Combinator funded company." 22:16 - "10 times out of 10 we would go through YC again...It'd be hard to replicate that by yourself." 23:05 - Q: What's the most troubling experiences you've had? 25:42 - "It wasn't just the three of us deciding if this was the right move. There were also three fantastic women in our lives we had to convince this was the right move." 27:00 - Q: What are you guys most excited for in the coming future? 28:30 - Q: Any tools that you use that help Zapier achieve success? 32:00 - Q: What was the experience like hiring your first employee? 34:25 - Q: What advice would you give someone to get to where you're at today? "Just start doing something." 34:35 - "People spend too much time thinking about things that aren't really that important." 34:55 - "If you've got an idea for something, go find someone that would be a customer and go sell them that thing." 35:20 - "Day one, get customers." 36:20 - "5 years from today, Zapier will be bigger than it is today." 36:54 - "The goal is to keep building a customer we enjoy showing up to everyday."