The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Two more entrepreneurial ventures later, Gleb cofounded online backup provider Backblaze to help consumers affordably, automatically, and safely back up their data. What are the pros and cons of starting a business alone versus with cofounders? How many founders are too many? Hire everyone you need as an employee.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

The Economist talked about “ Venture capital’s reckoning “ and why despite the crisis in the market, and the large number of layoffs in the market, this crisis will not be like the dot com bust in 2001. Remote hires represent the majority in the US in H1 2022. Remote hires are now the majority in the US (source: Carta).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. I never hire job hoppers. You’re a startup founder. You have tough choices to make about whom you hire on your team. You start fighting with your co-founder whom you thought you understood.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2013

by Elisha Tan, founder of Learnemy. Customer acquisition, fund raising, hiring the right person… the list goes on. Boyd Au is the co-founder of Enzer Corporation Ltd with over 25-years proven track record in entrepreneurship. So what do you do? You learn from entrepreneurs who have been there and done that.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Premium-brand market leaders [.] recession in 2009.”.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . The show follows the journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Dave Kashen. We had this mission.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We’re a crossover fund.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

How founders cope with startup challenges was the focus of today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. And world-class entrepreneurs never quit. Jessica Mah.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

“Many Unicorn founders and CEOs have never experienced a difficult fundraising environment — they have only known success. Also, they have a strong belief that any sign of weakness (such as a down round) will have a catastrophic impact on their culture, hiring process, and ability to retain employees. Long term is not a year.

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Babbling VC

MARCH 18, 2018

Additionally, we felt as co-founders that our skillsets were so complimentary, enabling us to address these problems together with a team we wanted to build. We wanted to be in the midst of the product, sales, hiring and so forth. There were a couple other problems but the above three seemed to be the most prevalent.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. I chose DevBev Co. It didn’t seem big enough for what I suspected I would soon be doing, which was hiring contractors to contribute to projects. Thanks to Devin Beverage, DevBev Co. ! #6- Photo Credit: Devin Beverage.

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Babbling VC

MARCH 18, 2018

Additionally, we felt as co-founders that our skillsets were so complimentary, enabling us to address these problems together with a team we wanted to build. We wanted to be in the midst of the product, sales, hiring and so forth. There were a couple other problems but the above three seemed to be the most prevalent.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

It’s hard to fire a developer with 10,000 podcast listeners, not because she might say bad things about the company, but because co-workers look up to her as an alpha-geek. Back in 2001 I worked with a consultant who was a developer when times were really good, and a trainer when times were really bad. at 11:31 am [.]

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? On Sushi and VC. You have to pick one.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. I’ve seen many first-time founders who had fallings out with their co-founders, had lawsuits, had investors bail on them, lost market momentum. I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. I fund both types all the time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. We were originally called Maples Investments, because my co-founding partner is Mike Maples, and we had that as a placeholder.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 24, 2021

Startups Should Work To Make Their Employees Wealthy Not Just Their Founders And Investors. You see, it was for work I’d performed from 2001–2003 at a startup called Linden Lab, the company behind virtual world Second Life. And why we work with the founders we back to make sure there’s enough equity set aside to make great hires.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

If the world’s biggest and most established companies are hiring less when you graduate, that means you will have fewer opportunities to get your first job at a place where you can build relationships with people who are already experienced and well-connected in your field. It was 1999. In this regard, I was extremely fortunate.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

Herb Kelleher, our founder, led the way clearly — although I don’t think he knew what the expression servant leadership meant until we told him. So we try to hire leaders, no matter what role we want them to fill. Over the years, all of the leaders at Southwest Airlines have tried to model servant leadership. Answered by Stephen M.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Founded by Michael Bruno in Paris in 2001, 1stdibs (*) is the world’s largest online marketplace for luxury one-of-a-kind antiques, high-end modern furniture, vintage fashion, jewelry, and fine art. Instawork was cofounded by Sumir Meghani in San Franciso and was a member of the 2015 Y-Combinator class. annual GMV.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Deal origination is a slow, labor-intensive, frustrating process.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Matt shares his story and give some great insight on hiring the right employees for your company. She started her first business, a handmade jewelry company, in 2001, where she learned that an MBA doesn’t even begin to prepare you for life as an entrepreneur. Want to hire someone? Want to hire someone? Also Available On.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down. Ajay Prasad, the founder of GMR Web Team < [link] > #15) Take Advantage of an Opportunity. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

It means hiring carefully from the start. RISD Industrial Design Program Jony Ive Joe Gebbia Nate Blecharczyk Sam Altman Sequoia x Airbnb Jeff Stump on hiring Paul Graham Tara Bunch Pablo Picasso: "It took me four years to learn to paint like Raphael." But in order to do that, we have to start with the right first principles.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Starting as a tool for one of the founders to update his portfolio, co-founders Spencer Fry, Dave Gorum, and Jason Nelson launched a self-funded, $12 per month plan in 2007, alongside their established free plan.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson. It took Joel awhile to realize that “If you’re hiring very bright people, let them do their damn job&#.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

& Founder Institute UAE Abu Dhabi Virtual 2020. Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. Galil Software – big software company hiring people from all sectors, with focus on Arab engineers in Israel.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

is the co-founder and co-director of Bad Robot Productions , which has been the force behind some of the most successful and well-known films and TV shows of our time. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT. Reid Hoffman:?? Hi, everyone. Welcome to Greylock’s Iconversations. I’m Reid Hoffman. Today, I’m thrilled to have my friend J.J.

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