Thursday, December 13, 2012

Netsoft Completes 28th Placement at Ruckus Wireless

Founded in 2004, Ruckus  invented the market for smart access points, selling wireless solutions to both Service Providers and Enterprise Customers worldwide, including their Wireless Broadband Access and 3/4GO products. Ruckus went public in November 2012 and sports a market value over $1 billion.

Netsoft began working with Ruckus in 2005 when the company was just 25 people.

Netsoft has now placed seven VPs, Sr Directors and Directors, seven managers, and fourteen senior engineering and other professionals with Ruckus. Congratulations to Baleshwara Indharapu on his new position as Sr Escalation Engineer!

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Silicon Valley, New York, Tel Aviv: Top Places for Tech Startups

Silicon Valley remains the world’s top environment for startups, according to the Startup Genome 2012 "Startup Ecosystem Report," which uses an index based on data from more than 50,000 startups around the world that are using the Startup Genome’s Startup Compass, an automated analyst in the cloud that helps businesses make decisions through benchmarks and actionable recommendations. While nearly all high-growth technology startups have historically emerged from no more than three to four startup ecosystems—particularly Silicon Valley and Boston—the study suggests this trend appears to have reached its end.

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Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

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Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Friday, December 7, 2012

Now Hiring? Tips for Conducting Interviews

It's not always a candidate's fault when a job interview goes south.

Hiring managers can commit a litany of sins, such as interrupting interviews to answer phone calls, failing to take notes, acting bored or distracted, bad-mouthing their own companies, bullying applicants, or asking "gotcha" questions for no reason at all, say human-resources consultants. The cost of poor interviews ranges from bad hires to alienated job applicants. At worst, untrained hiring managers can open their employers to lawsuits by asking questions deemed illegal by federal nondiscrimination standards. Read Article


Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Netsoft Completes 27th Placement at Ruckus Wireless

Founded in 2004, Ruckus invented the market for smart access points, selling wireless solutions to both Service Providers and Enterprise Customers worldwide, including their Wireless Broadband Access and 3/4GO products. Ruckus filed their S-1 in preparation for their IPO in October, 2012.

Netsoft began working with Ruckus in 2005 when the company was just 25 people.

Netsoft has now placed seven VPs, Sr Directors and Directors, six managers, and fourteen senior engineering and other professionals with Ruckus. Congratulations to Warren Blackwell on his new position as Sr Mobile Applications Software Development Engineer!

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Prestigious People and the Power Words - Netsoft Career Center

It's All About Me

Three words can help job seekers ace the interview: "I," "me" and "my."

Job candidates who talk about themselves in the first person come across as more direct and are perceived as better hires, compared with candidates who use the third person. The latter group is perceived as avoidant and low-performing, according to a new study by Leadership IQ, a Washington leadership training and research firm. Read entire article here...

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Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Netsoft Completes 1st Placement at Accelera Mobile Broadband

Founded in 2012, Accelera Mobile Broadband develops, operationalizes and manages mobile broadband networks to enable operators of mobile broadband networks to cost effectively scale their networks, meet the challenges of exponential increases in mobile data demand and provide a superior customer experience. Accelera specializes in advanced wireless network management software and SON – self-optimizing networks. Congratulations to Jiwoong Lee on his new position as Wireless Software Architect.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Netsoft Completes 26th Placement at Ruckus Wireless

Founded in 2004, Ruckus invented the market for smart access points, selling wireless solutions to both Service Providers and Enterprise Customers worldwide, including their Wireless Broadband Access and 3/4GO products.

Netsoft began working with Ruckus in 2005 when the company was just 25 people.

Netsoft has now placed seven VPs, Sr Directors and Directors, six managers, and thirteen senior engineering and other professionals with Ruckus. Congratulations to Biju Nair on his new position as VP, Engineering Operations.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Monday, July 9, 2012

Netsoft Completes 25th Placement at Ruckus Wireless

Founded in 2004, Ruckus invented the market for smart access points, selling wireless solutions to both Service Providers and Enterprise Customers worldwide, including their Wireless Broadband Access and 3/4GO products.

Netsoft began working with Ruckus in 2005 when the company was just 25 people.

Netsoft has now placed five Sr Directors and Directors, six managers, and eleven senior engineering and other professionals with Ruckus. Congratulations to Kevin Mobley on his new position as Lab Manager.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Friday, July 6, 2012

Netsoft Completes 24th Placement at Ruckus Wireless

Founded in 2004, Ruckus invented the market for smart access points, selling wireless solutions to both Service Providers and Enterprise Customers worldwide, including their Wireless Broadband Access and 3/4GO products.

Netsoft began working with Ruckus in 2005 when the company was just 25 people.

Netsoft has now placed five Sr Directors and Directors, six managers, and eleven senior engineering and other professionals with Ruckus. Congratulations to Amit Rele on his new position as Senior Product Manager, Carrier.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Netsoft Completes 23rd Placement at Ruckus Wireless

Founded in 2004, Ruckus invented the market for smart access points, selling wireless solutions to both Service Providers and Enterprise Customers worldwide, including their Wireless Broadband Access and 3/4GO products.

Netsoft began working with Ruckus in 2005 when the company was just 25 people.

Netsoft has now placed five Sr Directors and Directors, six managers, and eleven senior engineering and other professionals with Ruckus. Congratulations to Peter Egas on his new position as Services Program Manager.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Netsoft Completes 8th and 9th Placements at GoPro

GoPro is the world's leading activity image capturing company. GoPro produces the famous HERO® line of wearable and gear-mountable cameras and accessories, GoPro's products are sold through Best Buy and specialty retailers in over 40 countries.

Netsoft has now placed 9 professionals with GoPro: 2 engineering directors, a Sr. engineering program manager, a Sr. mechanical engineer, a Principal Optical Engineer, two Sr. Hardware Engineers, a Sr. Firmware engineer, and a Sr. RF Hardware Engineer with GoPro. Congratulations to Rick Bomber, Principal Optical Engineer, and Hong Zuo, Sr. Hardware Engineer.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Netsoft Completes 22nd Placement at Ruckus Wireless

Founded in 2004, Ruckus invented the market for smart access points, selling wireless solutions to both Service Providers and Enterprise Customers worldwide, including their Wireless Broadband Access and 3/4GO products.

Netsoft began working with Ruckus in 2005 when the company was just 25 people.

Netsoft has now placed five Sr Directors and Directors, six managers, and eleven senior engineering and other professionals with Ruckus. Congratulations to Yves Eteve on his new position as Wireless Services Gateway Integration Manager.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Thriving During Your First 90 Days - New Article in Netsoft Career Center

Congratulations!  Through a considerable investment of time, you have managed to land that perfect job with the ideal company and proper compensation. The ordeal is over.  Champagne and roses are much deserved.  Time to rest on your laurels? Only long enough to celebrate your victory.

Your first 90 days may prove to be the most crucial period at your new company. Read entire article here...

Visit the Netsoft Career Center to read this article and more career tips here...

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Why You Shouldn't Take a Counteroffer


Thinking about using a potential employer's job offer to get your current company to counter and pay you more money?

Stop right there.

Using another job offer as a bargaining chip may be tempting, but too often, it ends badly. If you want a raise, then negotiate it on your own merits--or prepare to move on.

Here's why: Read full story here...

Visit the Netsoft Career Center to read this article and more career tips here...

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Netsoft Completes 21st Placement at Ruckus Wireless

Founded in 2004, Ruckus invented the market for smart access points, selling wireless solutions to both Service Providers and Enterprise Customers worldwide, including their Wireless Broadband Access and 3/4GO products.

Netsoft began working with Ruckus in 2005 when the company was just 25 people.

Netsoft has now placed five Sr Directors and Directors, five managers, and eleven senior engineering and other professionals with Ruckus. Congratulations to Edwin Menor on his new position as Carrier Systems Engineer.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Netsoft Completes 9th Placement at RedSeal

RedSeal is the premier Security Analytics company in the world. It is profitable and growing!

Netsoft has now placed 9 professionals with RedSeal, including engineering, sales, product management, test/QA, and technical support. Congratulations to Mariano Ivaldi, Sr. Technical Support Engineer.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Netsoft Completes 7th Placement at GoPro

GoPro is the world's leading activity image capturing company. GoPro produces the famous HERO® line of wearable and gear-mountable cameras and accessories, GoPro's products are sold through Best Buy and specialty retailers in over 40 countries.

Netsoft has now placed 7 professionals with GoPro: 2 engineering directors, a Sr. engineering program manager, a Sr. mechanical engineer, a Sr. Hardware Engineer, a Sr. Firmware engineer, and a Sr. RF Hardware Engineer with GoPro. Congratulations to Eddy Khan, Sr. RF Hardware Engineer.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Ruckus Wireless Wins Wi-Fi Contract with City of San Jose and Industry Reports Reveal Blazing Growth


Recent Advances in Wi-Fi Technology Make Possible the City’s Vision of Building the Country’s Highest Speed Public Wi-Fi Network
SUNNYVALE, CA, and SAN JOSE, CA, March 12, 2012Ruckus Wireless™ (Ruckus), and its integration partner SmartWave Technologies, today announced that they have been selected by the City of San José to supply advanced Wi-Fi products and services for a new high-capacity, high-performance public Wi-Fi network initiative.
The new outdoor Wi-Fi network, initially being deployed in dozens of downtown locations, will cover San José’s business district, allowing the city to offer free high-speed Wi-Fi services. The new high-speed network will be capable of supporting tens of thousands of simultaneous users and hundreds of terabytes of aggregate traffic.

READ FULL PRESS RELEASE

New Industry Reports Reveal Blazing Growth and Share Leadership for Ruckus Wireless in Both Enterprise and Carrier Markets

New Gartner Report Shows Ruckus as the Fastest Growing in Enterprise WLANs, New Dell’Oro Report Reveals Ruckus as 2011 Market Share Leader in Carrier Wi-Fi Shipments

SUNNYVALE, CA, 12 March 2012Ruckus Wireless™ (Ruckus) today announced that it has again been recognized as the fastest growing Wi-Fi supplier within the worldwide market for enterprise wireless according to a new Gartner report. In addition, the company has garnered the top market share spot in the carrier Wi-Fi space, according to a new industry study from Dell’Oro.
In the fourth quarter of 2011, Ruckus achieved the highest year-over-year revenue growth of all wireless LAN suppliers worldwide, growing over 134 percent, according to Gartner’s newly published Market Share: Enterprise WLAN Equipment, Worldwide, 4Q11 report. With respect to Q4, 2011 vendor revenue and unit shipments of WLAN coordinated access points, Ruckus saw 181 and 289 percent growth respectively over the same period in 2010 – increasing its sequential quarterly market share from 3.7 to 4.9 percent worldwide.

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Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Netsoft Completes 6th Placement at GoPro

GoPro is the world's leading activity image capturing company. GoPro produces the famous HERO® line of wearable and gear-mountable cameras and accessories, GoPro's products are sold through Best Buy and specialty retailers in over 40 countries.

Netsoft has now placed 6 professionals with GoPro: 2 engineering directors, a Sr. engineering program manager, a Sr. mechanical engineer, a Sr. Hardware Engineer and a Sr. firmware engineer with GoPro. Congratulations to Wing Poon, Sr. Hardware Engineer.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Netsoft Completes Placements at MapR Technologies, Arxan & Retained Search for HPCC Systems

Netsoft completes 4th placement at MapR Technologies
AVP of Sales West, Solutions Engineer for the North East and Director of Sales in NYC and Atlanta


Netsoft places the VP Asia Pac for Arxan

Netsoft completes first search, Director of Sales, for a new player into the big data space
HPCC Systems.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

5 Things I Look for in a Great Job Interview


Here is what separates a good candidate from a great one.
By Matthew Swyers

In my career I have reviewed thousands of resumes and conducted hundreds of employment interviews for both The Trademark Company and other businesses for which I have worked. In doing so, I got to see the good, the bad, and the downright ugly in terms of resumes, interviewing skills, and the like. For other CEOs looking to hire, here's what I think makes a great candidate stand out from the good ones. Read story here...

Visit the Netsoft Career Center to read this article and more career tips here...

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Job Hunting Tips: Eight Things You Should Never Say in a Job Interview

Hiring for Attitude (McGraw-Hill/Available now) is a book intended for recruiters, but in its pages author Mark Murphy reveals the game within the game that applicants need to understand to make the best possible impression in an interview. Managers often seek subtle but telling uses of language to detect trouble signs; certain answers to questions may be seen as demonstrating lack of ability to handle change, challenges, team chemistry or corporate culture. In other words, being talented isn’t enough when hirers are determined to distinguish candidates who know how to work well within the organization. Murphy is founder and CEO of Leadership IQ, a training and management consulting firm. Read story here..

Visit the Netsoft Career Center to read this article and more career tips here...

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.