top-tier

Twistlock, a well-funded and VC-backed company, seeks a small number of top-tier, full-stack software engineers to join the team.

We're building a top-tier data team that will answer fundamental economic questions like how can you predict when a company will need money based on public data?

We work with top-tier shows like This American Life, The Moth, and 99% Invisible, host the highly successful podcast network Radiotopia, and our own XM radio station.

Pure Android, extensive features, top-tier differentiated design at prices below industry leaders Apple and Samsung are intended to tease consumers to look at the line up and consider a direct relationship with Motorola.

There've been multiple occasions where a larger publisher bought a studio, only to find that the top-tier talent leave to found their own studio and the publisher is left with successful (but short-lived) licenses but no talent pool to build new golden eggs.

Put another way, if the goal of participation in Y Combinator is for companies to build enough traction to become top-tier candidates for an institutional fundraise, what is the outcome that participants in the Fellowship should hope to achieve?

Going between mid-tier and top-tier status can make a huge difference in your rate of upgrades for the next year, mileage earning rate and in AA's case at Platinum you earn 0 international upgrades but at ExPlat you earn 8 one-way international upgrade certificates good for an upgrade from any economy fare to any business, or any business fare to first free of charge.

Pretty much only those who come out of it as "top-tier" get any benefit, and no amount of "spin" will cushion the news of anything lesser.

I agree that archive.org is the "correct" place for this content, but I think YouTube is a more practical location for now (and also the place where I think the content is more likely to be discovered by regular people: many people think of searching YouTube when looking for video content of all types, and YouTube has a top-tier indexing and search engine to help them find the right stuff).

Their board member (one of our closest/best mentors) recommended they go back, but make the first slide in their pitch deck "We're moving to San Francisco." They got five term sheets in the first two days, ended up raising from a top-tier firm.

There are circumstances where (usually) companies will get legal advice from a top-tier firm, and that advice will be "we are not certain if this is legal or not", because there are no cases where this has been tested.

Top-tier employers requires deep knowledge of algorithms and math rather than concrete technologies (in case of average employers it's quite opposite).