At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide is bootstrapping startups, including helping them interview and hire. We currently have clients looking for skilled engineers to build their development teams. This is an excellent opportunity to learn Extreme Programming by working side-by-side with Pivotal's talented and experienced developers while at the same time getting in on the ground floor of a small and dynamic product team.

Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring. General technical requirements include serious web development experience, and a significant subset of Ruby, Rails, CSS, JavaScript, or MySQL.

Here are short descriptions of Togetherville and Honk, San Francisco-based clients of Pivotal Labs currently looking for developers. The full job postings follow.

Togetherville is an early-stage, funded startup at the crossroads of learning, technology and society. Starting with our highly-respected and successful Funders and Advisors, we are building a team that is excited about getting a ground-floor startup experience and is capable of consistently meeting and exceeding the high expectations of success we have set for ourselves. We are extremely passionate about what we’re doing and just as passionately looking for focused and fun people to join our team. We are not hung up how many years of experience you have. We’d rather start with your potential and what you can do and then go from there!

Honk.com is a new online automotive website that will make car shopping fun and social. We will enable consumers to experience a new way to explore new cars. We have partnered with a top social website to deliver this new way of car shopping and are funded by one of the largest media companies in the world. Our small team is made up of an experienced group of humble, efficient, and hyper-passionate individuals who are veterans of the automotive industry and social media space. We are proud of our ego-less culture, one that promotes team thinking, not individual accolades. If you're interested in helping prove that social media and car buying go hand in hand, social networks serve a bigger purpose than keeping up with one's day, and a small team can outdo the work of an army - then we may have a seat waiting for you.

If you are interested or for more information please contact the company directly. This is an exclusive service provided to our clients, no external companies or recruiters please.

Full job postings follow.

Thanks to all who came out for the Startup Crawl last Friday night. It was a great crowd and by all accounts a great event all around. We had many challengers on the PivotPong table, but none could defeat Rob Mee. Despite his perfect 19-0 record, Rob has pledged $10 per victory for charity, so your duels were not in vain.

We truly enjoyed hosting the RubyConfers and everyone else who participated and we look forward to seeing you again as clients, partners, Pivots, and speakers at future events.

Please see my previous post regarding Movember for context.

Pivotal Labs CEO Rob Mee has announced that he will match the highest qualifying donation for coloring my mustache. In return, he gets to pick the color of half the 'stache.

The largest donation to me or to the Pivots-West team before midnight tonight (PST) earns the right to color HALF of my mustache. Rob will match that donation for the right to color the other half. Don't fret, he's been researching clashing color schemes.

You will still receive a whole autographed photo of your very own, and now your very welcome donation to men's health will be twice as large!

At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide is bootstrapping startups, including helping them interview and hire. We currently have clients looking for skilled engineers to build their development teams. This is an excellent opportunity to learn Extreme Programming by working side-by-side with Pivotal's talented and experienced developers while at the same time getting in on the ground floor of a small and dynamic product team.

Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring. General technical requirements include serious web development experience, and a significant subset of Ruby, Rails, CSS, JavaScript, or MySQL.

Here are short descriptions of Togetherville and Honk, San Francisco-based clients of Pivotal Labs currently looking for developers. The full job postings follow.

Togetherville is an early-stage, funded startup at the crossroads of learning, technology and society. Starting with our highly-respected and successful Funders and Advisors, we are building a team that is excited about getting a ground-floor startup experience and is capable of consistently meeting and exceeding the high expectations of success we have set for ourselves. We are extremely passionate about what we’re doing and just as passionately looking for focused and fun people to join our team. We are not hung up how many years of experience you have. We’d rather start with your potential and what you can do and then go from there!

Honk.com is a new online automotive website that will make car shopping fun and social. We will enable consumers to experience a new way to explore new cars. We have partnered with a top social website to deliver this new way of car shopping and are funded by one of the largest media companies in the world. Our small team is made up of an experienced group of humble, efficient, and hyper-passionate individuals who are veterans of the automotive industry and social media space. We are proud of our ego-less culture, one that promotes team thinking, not individual accolades. If you're interested in helping prove that social media and car buying go hand in hand, social networks serve a bigger purpose than keeping up with one's day, and a small team can outdo the work of an army - then we may have a seat waiting for you.

If you are interested or for more information please contact the company directly. This is an exclusive service provided to our clients, no external companies or recruiters please.

Full job postings follow.

RubyConf is in town and the holiday season is almost upon us. It is a perfect time to open our doors and welcome the Rails and XP community to our San Francisco headquarters. From 6:30 until 9-ish on Wednesday, November 18th, we will have catered snacks and beverages and a convival gathering of the extended Pivotal Labs family and our friends. RSVP by purchasing a free ticket from the Eventbrite posting, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Movember is in full swing and Pivotal teams have already raised over $2K for dude cancer research! To push that number higher, hopefully much higher, I am auctioning off the color of my mustache. Take a look at this fuzzy lip warmer and consider it in pink or green or blue. Which would you choose?

Well, the individual with the highest new contribution to me or to the Pivots-West team between now and 11:59 p.m. PST on Wednesday, November 17th, gets to name the color. I will color my 'stache by 9 a.m. Friday morning, November 20th, and I will wear it thusly colored for the rest of the month. In addition picking my exact hue-miliation, you will also receive an authentic autographed photo of me and my mustache, sporting your color of choice.

Thanks to everyone who has already donated and to all those yet to donate, please consider even $10 for this worthy cause. To date, Movember has raised $47 million globally, making it the world’s largest charity event for men.

Hackfest for the Light and Women 2.0 are putting on a Startup Sandbox in November at Microsoft. They especially encourage socially responsible software ideas and companies to attend -- bring your whole team or just an idea and ask for whatever help you need.

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Come spend a whirlwind 56 hrs with like-minded entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, dreamers, and work on any of the following --

• Make a working prototype
• Create an investor presentation
• Come with your company and get feedback
• Come with an idea to make a mock up
• Practice and learn new skills

The event starts at 6pm Friday Nov 20, and goes until Sunday evening, Nov 22.

Location: Microsoft, 835 Market Street (Westfield Center), Suite #700

Register now, and get the early bird price of just $79 for the whole weekend — http://startupsandbox.eventbee.com. Use the Hackfest for the Light discount code 'affiliate01' and get an additional $10 off.

Women 2.0 is a powerhouse organization, dedicated to creating more women entrepreneurs. Thanks to their great connections, there will be investors, lawyers, and high-profile speakers who want to give you great advice for free!

If you can’t make the SF event, check out Startup Weekend in Palo Alto event the very same weekend — http://bayarea.startupweekend.com