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. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

In 2019, we’ll be doubling down on this effort as we are hiring a GM for our CXO Advisory Board & Network ( job description here ). Privacy engineering rules: We can’t go a week without a new data breach or privacy violation; Marriott, Google, Facebook and more. See a recent Business Insider article with more of my thoughts.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Just because we missed the intermediate milestones doesn’t mean we won’t hit our product schedule” – In engineering meetings where there is great pressure to ship on time—a customer commitment, a quarter that depends on it, or a competitive imperative—everybody hopes for good news. I’ll bet you can’t. Where do lies come from?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Spend some time forming campaigns that include the use of television ads, magazines, the search engine optimization and many others. 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. Draft your market plan and our target market.

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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.&# Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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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. VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

A few months later the first mp3 search engines start to pop up. com running (check out the old snapshot, the domain hasn’t been mine since 2001). 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). So what was 2look4?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

These elements of my previous corporate career have been crucial in my attempts to reverse engineer an existing industry by simply adding an element of human interaction to a seemingly saturated (online dating) market. After retiring in 2001, I also joined a ladies networking group, On Purpose Networking for Women (OPN).

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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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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. Posted by: Atlanta Search Engine Optimization | April 16, 2008 at 07:38 AM. Should You Hire People With Graduate Degrees for Your Startup? Ive also invested in a number of start-up failures.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 My second employee signed the H1-B petition on behalf of the company so that I could be hired by my own company!

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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. . And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . ” This was around 2001. I was like, “… It’s going to be big. It’s all those pieces. …. Wayne : Yes.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

I dropped out of college in 2001, so this would be 17 years in. I know that I need to shore up these weaknesses, and I know that I have challenges with hiring,” whatever it is. Could you go down to some obscure form of engineering software company or something of that nature? I don’t get it. 17, 18 years at Moz?

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Babbling VC

MARCH 18, 2018

We wanted to be in the midst of the product, sales, hiring and so forth. As a VC we felt we were more focused on the financial engineering side of things and found the role to be almost boring when compared to actually building businesses. Don't get me wrong. There are great VC's and they love what they do.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

NYC 2.0: Post 2001 crash, the NYC tech community rallied, the tech meetup got started, as did a number of companies utilizing NYC’s domain strengths in financial services, advertising, media and mobile. A handful of local VCs and angel investors (primarily from the financial sector) funded the startups. the list goes on and on.

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Babbling VC

MARCH 18, 2018

We wanted to be in the midst of the product, sales, hiring and so forth. As a VC we felt we were more focused on the financial engineering side of things and found the role to be almost boring when compared to actually building businesses. Don't get me wrong. There are great VC's and they love what they do.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Hire everyone you need as an employee. Of course, Excite also went bankrupt in 2001, so maybe five is a terrible number? Three of my cofounders are engineering masterminds (with various skillsets.) It’s obvious that a company building an online backup service and its own cloud storage platform requires strong engineering talent.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

427 referred to the engine capacity. It didn’t seem big enough for what I suspected I would soon be doing, which was hiring contractors to contribute to projects. I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. There was one edition of the car built by Carol Shelby called the 427 Special.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Sophisticated Search Engine Optimization is mandatory in our world of Bing / Yandex / Baidu / Google. Hire smart people. Hire smart consultants. Your website was created in 1996, updated slightly in 2001, and left to rot ever since. If you can't initiate or participate in conversations, close your account.

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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. In this regard, I was extremely fortunate.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 23, 2004

There were a number of attendees who were here during the past few years and their businesses raised a fair amount of capital and somehow they managed to survive the nuclear winter during the 2001-2002 period. What allowed them to do it? What are the challenges they face now?

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

Not writing copy – or leaving the manufacturer’s description – is the fast-track to search engine irrelevance. Of course, the picture speaks a thousand words, but the search engines cannot see images. They hired a bunch of professional writers and let them go to town. This is pretty intuitive. The results?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. And then I taught a class called “Intelligent Growth in Startups” in the engineering department. Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. I've been in venture now twice.

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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. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 All those sites used up our meager resources — monetary, design, engineering and intellectual. None of them were hired by me, and instead they were picked up through a peer-review-hire process.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Within a year I hired 92 permanent staff and another 30 full time contractors. I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction. Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

And this was at a prestigious engineering school. As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. Although I had worked for many years before, had a degree and now a post-graduate certificate no one was hiring me. 13) Promote Myself.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Not writing copy – or leaving the manufacturer’s description – is the fast-track to search engine irrelevance. Of course, the picture speaks a thousand words, but the search engines cannot see images. They hired a bunch of professional writers and let them go to town. This is pretty intuitive. The results?

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I knew I wanted something search engine-friendly, and I’d always used the term photo safaris when inviting friends along to shoot around New York, so I went with that. Of course we were too young and stupid to actually know how to go about hiring one, so I created my own and called it Eisen Management Group.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

It’s an unconventional approach, but it helps keep the good people we’ve hired onboard, happy and extremely motivated. By giving their engineers dedicated time each month to focus on side and personal projects, team members keep their creative juices flowing and stay motivated. Hire great people to do boring work.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

It took Joel awhile to realize that “If you’re hiring very bright people, let them do their damn job&#. Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. Engineers don’t blame salespeople for making them work weekends to help them hit their quota.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Unistream was founded by businessman and entrepreneur Rony Zarom in 2001 to help Israeli teens from underprivileged areas realize their potential, by teaching them entrepreneurial skills, so they can change the courses of their lives, and Israeli society, for the better. SUGGESTED BACKGROUND READING.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Looking back at things again it’s super obvious, but 2001, when you see the technology that exists there, when you look at it, it could be anything from the Dick Tracy comic strips and his communication watch to, obviously, the Star Trek communicator. And I think that there are a lot of examples of [things] we just take for granted.

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