A practical, expert-reviewed guide to growing software engineering teams effectively, written by and for hiring managers, recruiters, interviewers, and candidates.

The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring: Align your team to avoid expensive hiring mistakes.

Business & Money

Osman, Osman (Ozzie)

Job Hunting & Careers

Holloway, Inc.

This guide is the most comprehensive resource of its kind available, with contribution and review from experienced founders, lawyers, and investors—including Brad Feld, José Ancer, Camille Ricketts, Leo Polovets, Clerky co-founders Darby Wong and Chris Field, Danielle Morrill, Joe Wallin (co-author of the Holloway book, Angel Investing: Start to Finish), and many more. It will help any founder raise the right way, with confidence. This print edition includes lifetime digital access to additional features and future updates at Holloway.com. 
Venture capital is a powerful tool for entrepreneurship—one that can help overcome some of the challenges of starting and scaling a new business. It’s notoriously easy for founders to take wrong turns in their path to financing a company—but many mistakes are avoidable with the right knowledge. Author Andy Sparks is a three-time founder whose goal is helping entrepreneurs avoid pain, costly mistakes, and fruitless research. Topics covered include:\nAssessing whether to raise 
Determining how much to raise and understanding how valuation and dilution are connected to how much you raise 
Choosing a financing structure 
Creating a target list of investors 
Designing and delivering your pitch and what to expect in investor meetings 
Everything a founder needs to know about term sheets (created with startup lawyers!), including sample term sheets\nThis book also includes appendices on networking and mentorship for founders, how venture capitalists make money (think returns, management fees, and carried interest), and a list of example pitch decks. 
Raising venture capital isn’t inevitable for every startup or every founder. The best founders go into the process of raising money with their eyes wide open to all the possibilities, including alternate ways to raise, and the options available to them, from financing structures to pitch designs to what terms to fight for. They can anticipate the next steps in the process before they begin, and ask themselves the important questions along the way. They know what will change between each round, and what to keep an eye out for when it comes to risks and pitfalls. They’ll know how those good relationships—with investors, other founders, their team, and their customers—are the most important part of building a successful company, and they know just how to find, foster, and sustain those relationships. 
Let the Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital be there for you, the trusted friend you can turn to again and again.

The Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital: The Comprehensive Fundraising Handbook for Startup Founders

Sparks, Andy

Finance

Learn how the best teams hire software engineers and fill other technical roles. Ask your employer if you can expense this book. The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring is a practical, expert-reviewed Guide to growing software engineering teams effectively, written by and for hiring managers, recruiters, interviewers, and candidates. We wrote this book to address the following problems: <ul><li>Hiring is rated as one of the biggest obstacles to growth by most CEOs.</li><li>Hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers all wrestle with how to source candidates, interview fairly and effectively, and ultimately motivate the right candidates to accept offers.</li><li>The process is costly and frustrating, and often stressful or unfair to candidates.</li></ul>Anyone who cares about building effective software teams will benefit from the experiences and knowledge in this book. Inside, you'll find know-how from some of the most insightful and experienced leaders and practitioners-senior engineers, recruiters, entrepreneurs, and hiring managers-who've built teams from early-stage startups to thousand-person engineering organizations.The lead author of this Guide, Ozzie Osman, previously led product engineering at Quora and teams at Google, and built (and sold) his own startup. Additional contributors include Aditya Agarwal, former CTO of Dropbox; Jennifer Kim, former head of diversity at Lever; veteran recruiters and startup founders Jose Guardado and Aline Lerner; and over a dozen others.Recruiting and hiring can be done well, in a way that has a positive impact on companies, employees, and every candidate. With the right foundations and practice, teams and candidates can approach a stressful and difficult process with knowledge and confidence.

The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring: Align Your Team to Avoid Expensive Hiring Mistakes

Human Resources

Angel investing can be fun, financially rewarding, and socially impactful. But it can also be a costly endeavor in terms of money, time, and missed opportunities. Through the successes, failures, and collective experience of the authors you'll learn how to increase your chances of success and your payout when your investment succeeds, and what to do if things go sideways. You'll learn how to evaluate deals like a lead investor, think through term sheets like a lawyer, and keep perspective through losses and triumphs. This book will also be of use to founders raising an angel round, who will be wise to learn how decisions are made on the other side of the table. No matter where you're starting from, this book will give you the context to become a savvier thinker, a better negotiator, and a positive member of the angel investing and startup communities.

Angel Investing: Start to Finish

Wallin, Joe

Baltaxe, Pete

This guide is the most comprehensive resource of its kind available, with contribution and review from experienced founders, lawyers, and investors-including Brad Feld, José Ancer, Camille Ricketts, Leo Polovets, Clerky co-founders Darby Wong and Chris Field, Danielle Morrill, Joe Wallin (co-author of the Holloway book, Angel Investing: Start to Finish), and many more. It will help any founder raise the right way, with confidence. Venture capital is a powerful tool for entrepreneurship-one that can help overcome some of the challenges of starting and scaling a new business. It's notoriously easy for founders to take wrong turns in their path to financing a company-but many mistakes are avoidable with the right knowledge. Author Andy Sparks is a three-time founder whose goal is helping entrepreneurs avoid pain, costly mistakes, and fruitless research. Topics covered include: <ul> <li>Assessing whether to raise</li> <li>Determining how much to raise and understanding how valuation and dilution are connected to how much you raise</li> <li>Choosing a financing structure</li> <li>Creating a target list of investors</li> <li>Designing and delivering your pitch and what to expect in investor meetings</li> <li>Everything a founder needs to know about term sheets (created with startup lawyers!), including sample term sheets</li> </ul> This book also includes appendices on networking and mentorship for founders, how venture capitalists make money (think returns, management fees, and carried interest), and a list of example pitch decks. Raising venture capital isn't inevitable for every startup or every founder. The best founders go into the process of raising money with their eyes wide open to all the possibilities, including alternate ways to raise, and the options available to them, from financing structures to pitch designs to what terms to fight for. They can anticipate the next steps in the process before they begin, and ask themselves the important questions along the way. They know what will change between each round, and what to keep an eye out for when it comes to risks and pitfalls. They'll know how that good relationships-with investors, other founders, their team, and their customers-is the most important part of building a successful company, and they know just how to find, foster, and sustain those relationships. Let the Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital be there for you, the trusted friend you can turn to again and again.

Written by a veteran recruiter for job-seekers who want to find their dream job—not just the next job. Book also includes online access to a database of questions and worksheets you can use. 
Why should only hiring managers and recruiters be in control of your job destiny? This book will empower you at every step of the hiring process, guiding you to understand your own skills and priorities, how to find the company that can give you what you want, and how to “flip the interview” to get real answers to your most important questions. No matter what field you’re in, whether you’re looking for your first gig or exploring options later in your career—it’s time you were in control. Figure out what you really want out of a job Research companies and narrow your list of prospects Craft a standout resume that’ll help you find fit in your next role Get what you need to know about who is involved in the hiring process Use the interview to uncover the truth about the role, team, and company Practice interview preparation tools and strategies 
This edition also includes full digital access, with lifetime access to online resources (see page vii): Worksheets to help you uncover your priorities, craft a better resume, create an interview plan, and more! A database of questions candidates can ask different interviewers that can be tailored to your priorities. 
This book was created by a highly experienced recruiter, hiring manager, and consultant, who was inspired by her years of experience seeing candidates let interviewers hold all the power. The lessons and activities will help you stand out from the moment a prospective manager reads your resume, ensure you make the most out of the interview process, and confidently prepare to step into your new role. What are you waiting for?

Ask Me This Instead: Flip the Interview to Land Your Dream Job

Haberkorn, Kendra

Better Venture: Improving Diversity, Innovation, and Profitability in Venture Capital and Startups

Lenhard, Johannes

Brodnock, Erika

Art For Money: Up Your Freelance Game and Get Paid What You’re Worth

Art for Money offers hard-won insights and practical tools any creative freelancer can apply to make a living and significantly grow their business. Direct and heartfelt, this slim book of under 100 pages is an instant classic that may be the most worthwhile book you buy this year. This print edition includes lifetime digital access, tools and spreadsheets, and future updates at Holloway.com."I reached out to Mike for help ...Then he sent over the book you're about to read. After that, my income tripled." -Angela Fink You might be a photographer, engineer, writer, designer, makeup artist, or any kind of freelance worker, contractor, or consultant. Or maybe you have a company job but dream of working on your own. Chances are you're interested in creating and a little unsure about billing, proposals, invoices, calendar management, how to set up an LLC-and if you can do it all yourself. Have you ever wished creatives like you had a coach, companion, or career center to turn to? In ten chapters, each topic is explained simply and with kindness, honesty, real examples, and no fluff.Michael Ardelean packs 13 years of creative and business experience into this book, distilling what he's learned about thriving financially as an artist: <ul><li>The benefits of freelancing and how to know if establishing a business is right for you</li><li>How to know what you're worth</li><li>How to price your work-and how not to under-charge or feel guilty about charging clients what you're worth</li><li>How to write a professional proposal</li><li>How to build fantastic client relationships-and what to do when relationships are difficult</li><li>How to invoice and get paid on time</li><li>How to network and grow your business</li></ul>Art for Money is approachable, actionable, and written for creatives by a creative who's seen it all. You've already figured out how to be great at what you do. If you're ready to become financially successful, too, the time you spend with this small book might be the best investment you've ever made in yourself. "I would've killed for a book like this a decade ago." -an Amazon reader

Arts & Photography

Ardelean, Michael

Business of Art

Art for Money offers hard-won insights and practical tools any creative freelancer can apply to make a living and significantly grow their business. Direct and heartfelt, this slim book of under 100 pages is an instant classic that may be the most worthwhile book you buy this year. This print edition includes lifetime digital access, tools and spreadsheets, and future updates at Holloway.com. 
“I reached out to Mike for help …Then he sent over the book you’re about to read. After that, my income tripled.” —Angela Fink\nYou might be a photographer, engineer, writer, designer, makeup artist, or any kind of freelance worker, contractor, or consultant. Or maybe you have a company job but dream of working on your own. Chances are you’re interested in creating and a little unsure about billing, proposals, invoices, calendar management, how to set up an LLC—and if you can do it all yourself. Have you ever wished creatives like you had a coach, companion, or career center to turn to? In ten chapters, each topic is explained simply and with kindness, honesty, real examples, and no fluff. 
Michael Ardelean packs 13 years of creative and business experience into this book, distilling what he’s learned about thriving financially as an artist: The benefits of freelancing and how to know if establishing a business is right for you How to know what you’re worth How to price your work—and how not to under-charge or feel guilty about charging clients what you’re worth How to write a professional proposal How to build fantastic client relationships—and what to do when relationships are difficult How to invoice and get paid on time How to network and grow your business 
Art for Money is approachable, actionable, and written for creatives by a creative who’s seen it all.\nYou’ve already figured out how to be great at what you do. If you’re ready to become financially successful, too, the time you spend with this small book might be the best investment you’ve ever made in yourself.\n“I would’ve killed for a book like this a decade ago.” —an Amazon reader

Have you ever felt frustrated, blocked, or unable to make progress on a creative pursuit? Or felt that your creative potential may not be realized in your work? 
This book was written to honor and support the emerging artist and creative. Driven by a desire to uncover the mystery of the creative process, writer Herbert Lui spent a decade researching and in conversation with practicing artists and creatives of all kinds. 
What emerged is this elegant collection of exercises, mental models, and true stories that help you develop your own creative process, from choosing material to sharing your work with the world. Creative Doing is often counterintuitive, prompting you to try one thing, and then its opposite, or pushing you to “sell out” as you experiment with creative purpose. 
The techniques apply to writers, painters, designers, musicians, digital creatives, producers, consultants, or anyone who wishes to develop a consistent creative habit. You might be… wanting to tap into your creativity to find new solutions in your full-time work exploring a creative hobby outside of your day job leaving or considering leaving a job to focus on new creative work.\nThe 75 practical techniques in this book support you as you learn to turn your vaguest impulses into true expression.

Creative Doing: 75 Practical Exercises to Unblock Your Creative Potential in Your Work, Hobby, or Next Career

Computers & Technology

Lui, Herbert

Programming

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The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring: Align your team to avoid expensive hiring mistakes.

The Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital: The Comprehensive Fundraising Handbook for Startup Founders

The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring: Align Your Team to Avoid Expensive Hiring Mistakes

Angel Investing: Start to Finish

The Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital: The Comprehensive Fundraising Handbook for Startup Founders

Ask Me This Instead: Flip the Interview to Land Your Dream Job

Better Venture: Improving Diversity, Innovation, and Profitability in Venture Capital and Startups

Art For Money: Up Your Freelance Game and Get Paid What You’re Worth

Art For Money: Up Your Freelance Game and Get Paid What You’re Worth

Creative Doing: 75 Practical Exercises to Unblock Your Creative Potential in Your Work, Hobby, or Next Career