YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2011

If you can’t, you either won’t sell, or will need to hire someone to write for you. Not acting classes (unless you think it will help your personal development, see point #6), but take action. As more people get lazy with their writing, being able to write becomes more and more powerful as a competitive advantage. Do something.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2014

You’ll need to implement a training and development plan to help employees understand why accountability is important and what accountable behavior looks like. Teach employees how to provide feedback to one another, since this is essential to developing a culture of accountability. Hire accountable people.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. Poor performance in business doesn’t always imply the failure of a business. Thanks to Yaniv Masjedi, Nextiva ! #4-

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

Disclaimer: I don’t know if I am (or ever was) a hardcore back-end developer. I did make money for a long time doing web-scale development work for a bunch of companies. com running (check out the old snapshot, the domain hasn’t been mine since 2001). I started coding in the 80s. So what was 2look4? A few things.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity. All are developer first companies respectively in zero trust security, automation, and developer productivity. Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned.

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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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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 22, 2019

My name is Dr. Sabrina Starling, owner of Tap the Potential and author of the How to Hire the Best Series. Mike recently interviewed me about my newest book in the series, How to Hire the Best: The Contractor’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees. MIKE: Why did you write How to Hire the Best? That was the wish.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. For others it feels like a two-speed economy, where rules apply to hot tech startups that don’t apply elsewhere. You feel it, too.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Some might feel that they will reduce the cost by developing their own site. The industry has been met with the hacking menace and an online casino needs to invest in hiring professionals to guarantee security of the server. The startup websites are now fully developed, and they are functioning properly. It made £1.5bn in 2015.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 16, 2018

In the world of HR, one of the biggest battles is finding and hiring exceptional employees. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc. by Jesse Wood, CEO of eFileCabinet. Combine that dream team with the other incredible benefits offered by document management software, and your business will be well on its way to the top.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

The key is to hire and promote leaders who truly do live the values your company espouses. And that’s fine — embrace innovation to your heart’s content in areas like product development and marketing campaigns. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. This gives you time to develop relationships with your customers. Take advantage of the free option.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

The key is to hire and promote leaders who truly do live the values your company espouses. And that’s fine — embrace innovation to your heart’s content in areas like product development and marketing campaigns. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

One of the primary benefits of hiring a consultant or freelancer instead of hiring a full-time employee is the fact they don’t take up as much space on a company’s payroll. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc. Understanding Competitive Fees from The Consultants’ Perspective.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

CEOs and employees work tirelessly to develop creative narratives that help them avoid dealing with the obvious facts. Back at the tail end of the Great Internet Bubble in 2001, as all the big technology companies began missing their quarters by giant amounts, I found myself wondering how none of them saw it coming.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2015

They actually developed the first digital camera, but buried the idea, fearing that I would hurt their film business. Typically they’ll be working long hours while the company struggles to hire and train enough staff. This pressure often sucks companies into hiring the wrong people, just to get more bodies on staff.

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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. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Carpe Diem. We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker. 9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program. After graduating high school, I was hired by the Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS).

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

I recently met a junior software developer working for $200/week + room & board at a business geeks house. Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. ONLY YOU DO!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. It’s much easier to just steal their ideas and hire their employees. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' In the U.S. Unlike the U.S.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2016

Maybe you’ve worked as a hiring manager for years, and you know exactly what employers are looking for. Here are some useful tips for landing your first clients as a freelance developer, and if you’re interested specifically in building apps, check this article out. Resume building. So, how will you make yourself seem invaluable?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Everybody was doing marketing blitzes, over-paying to steal the best staff, pimping out urban offices to the nines , and hiring in a frenzy. Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy.

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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. . We were probably a little bit arrogant in our thinking of what we could create and how we could lead developers to create these ideas that we have. ” This was around 2001. It’s all those pieces. ….

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Because times are slightly better now for fund raising I’d probably say two extra things: a) it may be worth a modest increase in your team size / activities / development IF you can raise more money to do this now & b) if you can raise more than you need right now (within reason) without too much extra dilution I would do so.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. Have not met anyone I wanted to hire who was willing to work for equity. Cash is king and it's a developer's market out there right now. Should You Hire People With Graduate Degrees for Your Startup? Ive also invested in a number of start-up failures.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

She and her company, 1185 Design , has developed the brands of enterprise companies like Cisco, SAP, Sun Microsystems, VeriSign, Semens, Adobe; consumer products companies like Sears, Chiquita, Apple, Stanford Hospital & Clinics; and over 350 startups. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

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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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. It’s much easier to just steal their ideas and hire their employees. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' In the U.S. Unlike the U.S.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 161

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 27, 2016

Whilst companies have made huge savings to their hiring budgets using direct approach methods such as LinkedIn, this “new broom” has had an impact on candidates too and not always a positive one. InterviewFit was established in response to changes in the recruitment sector. They are, after all, the other important part in the process.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present. Gross Profit. $(60).

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Right now companies are cutting costs and letting go of their $125/hour development shop. 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. They finally said it – the “R&# word.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2017

They commissioned a team to develop a better product. They developed a product that had more pixels, it had noise reduction, it had image stabilization and it was a third cheaper than GoPro’s and they got killed in the market because they weren’t innovating around the product. Sony listened to the customer.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Years ago, Six Apart invited me to be a part of some kind of developers program without telling me what it is. The developer program for which I signed the NDA never came to fruition, and no information was actually disclosed in all that time. If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? Ideas are cheap.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class. There are people who tell startups that they should hire the most senior people that they can find. I’m a big believer in only hiring A+ team members. At your stage of development do you really think a shit-hot VP Sales is going to join you to head up sales?

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