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4 Tips To Build A Deep Virtual Bench Of Talent

YoungUpstarts

More than ever before, companies must be ready to replace employees at a moment’s notice. days in 2001-2003. days in 2001-2003. Glassdoor reported that 84% of employees would consider leaving their current jobs if offered another role with a company that had an excellent corporate reputation.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Smart, capable managers would not hesitate to make decisions instead of allowing their employees to make them. 29:45 minutes.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. While there was an occasional bad apple, the public markets rewarded companies with revenue growth and sustainable profits.

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Lean Startup Conference Speaker Ann Miura-Ko on being a founder, representation, and the future.

Startup Lessons Learned

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. That gets back to the idea that when we first started Floodgate we always thought of ourselves as being owners and not just employees, and what that comes down to for me is bias for impact. I've been in venture now twice.

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Bad Notes on Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago.

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From email scams to e-commerce wins: How online shopping is helping Nigeria fix its Internet reputation

The Next Web

Its chaos and insanity melds into a working city that was predicted by the architect Rem Koolhaas (with the Harvard Project on the City) in the 2001 book Mutations when he said that Lagos was a city of the future and one that Western cities would eventually base themselves on. But somehow Lagos works. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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