YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

He mentioned that Gillette started faltering in 1998 when its leadership became distracted by non-core projects in the book. Not Time Telling, Genius of AND, Core Ideology and Preserve the Core/Stimulate Progress are related to the six concepts highlighted above.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

Usually, we hire people with a skillset that enables them to scale with us. One way to cultivate an upbeat workplace is to strive to hire only “A” players, people who want to be the best at their jobs and take pride in making positive contributions. Coach them up. But anyone can be or become an A player. Show appreciation.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

You can encourage employees to develop a continuous-improvement mindset, but it’s also possible to find people with that mindset in the hiring process. Target lifelong learners in recruiting efforts. Employees who don’t make an effort to continuously learn and improve will ultimately find themselves at another company.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. It is a lot easier to have someone else recruit and hire a CEO.". Judy Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, having started seven tech companies since 1981.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

This is finally happening because the boom of 1998-01 means that many funds are reaching the maturity of their 10-year funds [strangely, 10-year funds usually last about 13 years!]. You don’t have to hire as many sales people because much can be sold online. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.]

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2019

We never discriminate in our hiring decisions and we make a concerted effort to bring unique individuals with varied backgrounds and perspectives into the fold. I came to the United States in 1998 as a Turkish immigrant with my husband Serhat Pala. Perhaps some of my focus on diversity comes from my own background.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. My second employee signed the H1-B petition on behalf of the company so that I could be hired by my own company! At the same time, I was also working on the product. In a startup cash is king.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 30, 2018

The term ‘pre-chasm’ is a nod to Geoffrey Moore’s 1998 classic Crossing the Chasm and refers to companies that may have sold to early adopters, but haven’t yet found a way to sell to the mainstream. Getting sales going in those early years is terrifically challenging and requires great product and great sales.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

As became clear quickly: the Stanford Business School Class of 1998 had founded the good Internet 1.0 Like overnight lots and lots of contraction, hiring freezes, and pulled offers. But by my graduation in June of 2000, the party had ended. companies; the Class of 1999 had founded the bad Internet 1.0 No more jobs.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 10, 2014

I did my first angel investment in 1998, so 16 years and 60+ investments. I’ve already hired an intern and am interested in talking to people who would want to be an Associate for my virtual VC firm. ' Q: Although your $3.3m I am attempting to expand the definition of the syndicates in several ways today: A rounds.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2010

I started a business newspaper at my college and my first article back in February 1998 was on AOL. I didn’t have any visibility into what a career in startups would look like, how to get started, etc—just wasn’t even looking for them. Yet, I was very interested in the tech industry. I even recruited Kara Swisher to come speak at Fordham.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2020

For example, DIY will differ from hiring in a dedicated consultant. He is a qualified barrister, having been called to the Bar in 1998, and started his career as an in-house lawyer working in intellectual property, data protection and commercial contracts. It’s time to get GDPR compliant. .

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Intellectual Property Early Stage Security Software 147

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

They have helped me connect with and hire great videographers for the last three years. Now that I know about ProductionHUB ’s Request Engine , I let them do the searching for me,” says MaryElla Collins, office manager at Odyssey Creative, which does media production work for companies like AT&T, MTV and Fidelity Financial.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2016

But as a start-up scales, founders can’t have their hands in everything: many companies lose focus on the customer; decisions get bogged down; and there are hiring mistakes. Another important hiring tactic is Amazon’s ability to keep acquired founders on board. We’ve all seen these things happen to good start-ups.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 22, 2014

Having been in the agency world for 15 years ( started my first agency building websites for companies in 1998 , sold that in 2008 and stayed with the new agency, Engauge, until last August when I left and started Dragon Army ), I had a lot to say about what is wrong with the relationship between these two parties. That’s impossible.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

However, Jobs became less of a jerk after three children by his second wife came into his life between the years of 1991 and 1998. The cliche goes, “you get what you pay for,” and in the field of computer software, Jobs believed this was absolutely true when it came to who he hired and kept on at his companies.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. Long story short, Inktomi acqui-hired me and my puny search engine software (not the site, which earned me some nice cash on the side from ads). It’s not even illegal, that will come later. So what was 2look4? A few things.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. The UK has a similar scheme called Barclays Cycle Hire (affectionally dubbed Boris Bikes after London Mayor, Boris Johnson) which was started in 2010 with the aim of making journeys from point A to B shorter. Sold to Yahoo!

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aweissman.com

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We hired a crew with a stage and lights to set up and break down. When that Golden Gloves fight ended, we drove back in this kids parents’ car - a decommissioned yellow checker cab repainted grey, fold up back seats intact * * * I wrote a business plan back in 1998 for a direct-to-consumer digital book service. The house was packed.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Carpe Diem. We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The New Exits.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 13, 2019

I founded Perception Kayaks in 1975 and eventually sold it in 1998. Hire people smarter than you and lean on their expertise. Our roto-molded plastic kayaks changed the kayaking industry in large part because it made kayaking a more affordable option for a much larger customer base. To be successful you must jump in all the way.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Even among recruiting leaders, it’s common for them to realize that their hiring process is failing but be unaware of which steps in the process are causing the problem. There are three different FPI approaches that organizations can use to identify the key “failure points” in any hiring process. ™ All Articles. financials.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

Google is known as a data driven company – everything from its early hiring process to decision making shows its reliance on data. Steve Jobs famously said in a 1998 BusinessWeek interview: “It’s really hard to design products by focus group.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. What a nightmare!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. In 1998 RIM quickly followed this up with a next generation product with an 8-line display, ran on AA batteries and would last 500 hours. Wireless Communications. In the early 1990’s two different trends were occurring in wireless communication.

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Hockey Stick Customer Development Silicon Valley Networking 271

Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 24, 2013

There are many, many things I wish I had known about the industry and business in general before I started my agency back in 1998. .” Everything was in my control and if I didn’t figure out a way to make it happen, it wouldn’t happen. For instance, I remembered in 2002 when we “invented” wireframes.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

In 1998, five percent of shoes were sold through mail-order catalogues and Swinmurn believed that he could beat those numbers with an online version. Could you deliver the order yourself before hiring drivers? By faking it, he confirmed that people would be willing to order shoes online without trying them on.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2018

The impetus for my business came in 1998 after I rescued my dog Chewy from an animal shelter and he developed severe health problems. We had a chance to interview Moody and asked her story, how she started her company and the future of Stella & Chewy. Tell us your story. Why did you start your business?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

As part of their book campaign, Brant and Patrick have teamed up with General Assembly to offer 4 free online video classes, including: Lean UX Research Techniques - Rapid Prototyping - How to Hire Developers - Growth Hacking Every book pre-order get access to all of these classes - and quite a bit more.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people. Technology companies in particular, which often grant stock or options to every employee, can easily pass the 500 mark if rapid growth results in rapid hiring.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I hired another guide to help with the load, and I started charging for tickets to pay the guide. My strength was not in finance, so one of the first things I did was hire someone to handle the books and keep me on a solid financial path, so I could focus on running my business. I hire the best, so we’re all able to have it all.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. Eric, what you've termed 'datablindness' seems to be a common affliction in fields which experience a sudden rise in the volume of data they have access to.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

I am a “business person” – I’ve been in the Internet space since 1998 when I co-founded GoTo.com/Overture, and I have deep product and marketing expertise and a track record of building successful consumer companies and brands. If yes, hire a contract developer. Tuesday, August 17, 2010 e.p.c.

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

What’s stayed with me since I heard her story is how similarly this correlates to the process we went through when we started our company in 1998. Hire great new team members, a few of your other ones leave. Those first three or four years we constantly felt like we’d take two steps forward only to take one step back.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Up and Running

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Studies were first being done on EI in the workplace in 1998. The question then arises: How can a business hire for emotional intelligence? Here are some tips to help single out emotionally intelligent candidates in a hiring pool. See Also: How to Hire Your First Employee. Knowing where EI is most effective.

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