ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? Can we squeeze out more from folks that we’ve hired, and are there things that maybe we have completely neglected? Have we become soft?

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 25, 2013

Alan is the Head of Engineering for Google Aust / NZ and has been in and around computers since the early 1980′s. They made a trade sale in late 1999. Hire people who are innovative and passionate. On hiring good people: If you don’t hire well, you can’t leave the fort… go into the market. .

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line. I wanted the word “Italian” in there and adding “culinary adventures” makes it easier to be found in search engines. Now I use “Julie Originals” which is what I used to sign the back of my handmade greeting cards when I was young.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. It was a disaster.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. We hired people to run the UK and Germany.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. PayPal, under the leadership of David Marcus and Bill Scott, re-defining and re-engineering itself by embracing Lean Startup to improve the product experience.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Having an electrical engineering background, I knew there had to be a better way and I could help build it. They don’t need to be a savant in one niche skill; they need to be competent at a wide range of skills and then hire specialists to do what they can’t. I knew this was not an accurate way to track critical vital signs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

They wanted to be able to say to their senior person (who had hired Accenture in the first place) that they had been good corporate citizens but they had no real intention of actually helping me with me work. Yours had more complexity and less engineering talent secured on the team than most. Don’t be a grin fucker.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

When I began practicing law I was hired by a firm where billable hours and collected fees were the only considerations for advancement. Soon, I had more work than I could handle, and had to hire another attorney and staff member. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999. Image Credit: Nancy D.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. There are close to 100 specialized incubators for companies founded by returned overseas Chinese scientists and engineers. Lessons Learned.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Reverse engineering the origins of brand-owned terms is not a breakdown of the step-by-step planning that led from term identification to widespread acceptance. Ellis identified the perspective while, as a consultant, he struggled to find hires to fill his shoes. The phrases have defined brands. So how do you create one? in favor of.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I re-ignited Anvil as consultancy, but I wasn’t quite ready to hire employees yet. For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3 3 – I was Fired Twice.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. You’ve just hired your iPhone development team for you app. And that Palm Pre.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. There are close to 100 specialized incubators for companies founded by returned overseas Chinese scientists and engineers. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. Could I work here if he wanted to hire me?&#

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

We just hired our first in-house recruiter, Lisa Novak, and she is leading our team in this regard. In The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10 , I cover the most proven way to hire well?—?it At Coremetrics, I built more of an engineering-driven culture. First, you hire truly passionate and convincing sales people.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My number one goal in 1999 when my wife (fiancé at the time) Abby and I started our firm was to create a business that allowed us to raise and support our family on our own terms—just like my parents’ business allowed them to do for more than 30 years. From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

For example, if you were paying close attention to the rise of YouTube in the mid-2000s, you would have understood it wasn’t just going to create new jobs for software engineers – but also a much larger number of new jobs in video production, advertising, entertainment, education, and more. It was 1999.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. His ability to lead large teams of engineers had made him one of the most influential executives at Microsoft and the world.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” Even someone as smart as Larry Page learned this during the early days of Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. Within a year I hired 92 permanent staff and another 30 full time contractors.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Hipcamp (*) was founded in 2013 by Alyssa Ravasio as an engine to search across the dozens and dozens of State and National park websites for campsite availability.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

As I dug around, I was stunned to discover that I was hardly the first one to figure this out: my observations have been common knowledge among industrial engineers for almost a century. They also want to avoid hiring extra resources that increase the cost of the finished goods unless absolutely necessary.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

A family-run company that hires an outside CEO is flashing a signal that the firm may welcome an outside investor. Since 1999, its Partners have made over 160 investments in over 55 companies. These investors are exploiting the wealth of information about private companies available online, increasingly leaked via social media.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. It was a little bit geeky, but I really enjoyed it.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Your home page also has the best chance to rank high in the search engines since most people link to your home page (as do your internal pages). You don’t need to hire an expensive logo designer. Ignoring search engines is not wise. So better make it good. Here’s how to go about designing a home page that converts.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. But when the web 2.0 Natural Monopolies. You wanna dance, you gotta pay the band.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then the other thing is companies are having — if you talk to anybody running a company, they are having real trouble hiring enough qualified people. Number one is, a lot of companies need to actually educate their customers or their partners, and a lot of that has to happen online.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Don’t spend like it’s 1999. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. Don’t want to call it either way. It’s too early. I feel confident telling you to, “Watch your pennies.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. We used different playbooks to scale, either hiring someone local, sending someone from HQ to set up a country, or acqui-hiring.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Typically this includes the mortgage, property taxes, and management costs (if the investor decides to hire a property management company). When it comes to achievement, my philosophy is to look to the people who’ve already landed what I want and reverse-engineer what they’ve done. Lessons from successful entrepreneurs.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

A brief entry further down the page from the open source, pseudonymous online journal Zero Hedge (tagline: “On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero”) points out that of the tech companies that went public in often wildly lucrative IPOs in 2013, 73 percent have never turned a profit, compared to 27 percent in 1999.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Anytime you hire someone to represent you in a transaction you are subject to principle agent risk , the concern being you never know if the “agent” might be optimizing things for their own behalf, rather than simply working in the best interest of the client. So instead you hire your own representation to look after your own interest.

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