www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV. In the many e-mails I received about that column, one of the most common questions was why didnt I list any hiring mistakes. Ill start with four general guidelines for how to proceed with a hiring decision.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2011

by Oliver Wilkinson , founder of SSL247 and co-founder of jobiso.fr. If you can’t, you either won’t sell, or will need to hire someone to write for you. Ever since writing Europe’s first B2B study of banner ads’ effect on indirect response in 2001 he has regularly been published online and in traditional media.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. 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. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2014

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos calls it the “Two-Pizza Rule” — a team should be no larger than can be fed by two pizzas. Consider the approach taken by Mike Sinyard, founder of Specialized Bicycles. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Is this fair?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. And for many of these they were (over) funded 7-10 years ago and don’t necessarily all represent great returns for investors or founders. This post originally ran on TechCrunch. You feel it, too.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights.

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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. That’s OK.

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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. Our intrepid founder, Tomas Gorny, has a classic immigrant entrepreneur story. Those two pivots ended up being Flickr and Slack.

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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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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. You don’t need to buy hardware – there’s Amazon AWS.

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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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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

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. Before the online wave took over, the founders were only popular to a small group of players that had the interest in gaming. Some costs involved in setting up an online casino.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 11, 2014

First, how excited we are about the founders we’ve backed and how easy that makes working hard on their behalf. For example, David Hornik who I *think* was the first VC I encountered post-graduate school in 2001 when he was poking around my employer Second Life. We back plenty of first time founders.

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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! I’ll list other consultants I know about, as well.

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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

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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

But like many companies over the past five years it hired aggressively and probably had some degree of straying off of a core strategy and some amount of excess jobs relative to its current revenue forecasts and opportunities. The truth is that Twitter is an amazing company and still has an amazing opportunity in front of it.

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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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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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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 The phones rang off the hook (we didn’t even think about hiring somebody to answer them). I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. We closed a $16.5

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. 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. Should You Hire People With Graduate Degrees for Your Startup? what kind of stock you are getting. Good point.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

John Jantsch: If you’re a founder of a startup, maybe you need some brutally honest advice from somebody who’s been there. He is the founder and former CEO of Moz. But we’re going to talk a lot about his new book called, “ Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World. Transcript.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 27, 2016

This is a reference to the founder and CEO, Jeremy Knauff’s background in an infantry unit as a United States Marine. Now THAT’S an industry known for overusing a founder’s name.) For my current financial practice, I really struggled with naming it when I first left Edward Jones and went independent in 2011.

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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. That meant that if the change was starting on the founders side, then there had to be a change on the financing side.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? He is a venture partner at True Ventures.

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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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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. Founder-like employees can launch, scale and exit businesses, working together with large companies.

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Altgate

APRIL 28, 2012

—————————————– I’ve been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Since 2000, I’ve been collecting information about startups, including how much founders, their lieutenants, and their employees get paid. Myth number 2.

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www.noamwasserman.com

MARCH 26, 2012

I’ve been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Since 2000, I’ve been collecting information about startups, including how much founders, their lieutenants, and their employees get paid. The big difference is in equity: Startup CEOs who are not founders get 6.2 Founders make more than everyone else.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

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. The founders eventually created custom cereal boxes to raise funds so they could continue to operate. 5- Jack Ma founder of Alibaba.

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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. Founder-like employees can launch, scale and exit businesses, working together with large companies.

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