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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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2012

We box shadows--especially on the internet. It's like saying that diversity of perspective in any business is a good thing--only if you say "We should hire/fund/promote more women" that's when you stir up the peanut gallery into a tizzy. How many times do we do that?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! 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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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

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. Here’s my take: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. Eventually, Juno provided free access to browse the internet in addition to sending email. The experience was paid for by placing ads at the bottom of your internet browser.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

It’s the summer of 2001. Many Internet companies are struggling. By breakfast in the summer of 2001, the stock was trading under $1 / share. He certainly didn’t have to get up every day and go to the office, which by the summer of 2001 was a real business battle on multiple fronts. I was exhausted. But he did.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995. Trust your allies too.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Amid the remembrance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks this past weekend, much was made of the voluminous 9/11 Commission report, which described in excruciating detail countless ways in which the United States homeland security and emergency response infrastructure failed to respond adequately to a disaster of unprecedented proportions.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

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. Where do lies come from? To answer that question, I thought back to a conversation that I had years ago with the incomparable Andy Grove.

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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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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. Commercial email began in 1978 and exploded with the widespread growth of the internet in the 1990s.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

Long promised in science fiction films, from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Star Trek , video conferencing is no longer a far-off pipe dream. Here are some things you should know if you happen to get such an invite: Use a Reliable Internet Connection. Above all else, make certain that your Internet connection works properly and is reliable.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 Out of that total, they funded 268 Internet deals with $3.2 To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

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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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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 Out of that total, they funded 268 Internet deals with $3.2 To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2016

That being said, plenty of the businesses mentioned below require, at a minimum, regular access to a computer, the internet, and perhaps a car. Maybe you’ve worked as a hiring manager for years, and you know exactly what employers are looking for. Do you have a car (more specifically, a 4-door sedan, year 2001 or newer )?

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. 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. Ive also invested in a number of start-up failures.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet. I got my greencard approval in 2001, a few months after 9/11.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. 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. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. Captain Recruiter.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Jessica has been starting her own Internet businesses and programming since middle school. Especially difficult were the days after the Internet bubble burst: 2001 was a staggering blow to technology. I would never ever present anything that I didn’t think was “legendary.” Everything disappeared.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. 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? The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns. Jonathan Siddharth .

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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. . ” This was around 2001. Everybody doesn’t have hi-speed Internet. Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture means that others will help when you’re starting up. It’s all of these.). Wayne : Yes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I’m talking about understanding the norms in the industry of what it historically takes to build a successful Internet business and where you think you fall on that spectrum given the kind of business you are. They hire a team that spends more time with more customers. they make it incrementally harder to fund raise.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Most Internet marketing does not work that way. You’re essentially saying “Don’t worry about Internet marketing. The lowercase “i” comes from the iMac, where it originally stood for “internet” (now it just stands for “oh, an Apple product!”), If you build it, they will come.”

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale. Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001. How did Akamai do it? . .

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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 I don’t think we as busy professionals and Internet junkies know how to sit still and self-reflect. None of them were hired by me, and instead they were picked up through a peer-review-hire process.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire.

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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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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

From who we hire to the way we go to market, from how we engage with our limited partners to how we engage with founders, it’s all about being very focused on quality and consistency so as to affect strategies to generate meaningful carry for ourselves and our limited partners. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. Within a year I hired 92 permanent staff and another 30 full time contractors. Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious. We were based in London.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

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. When I actually started my PR firm in 2001, I had the name and the LLC already, so that’s what I went with, and in 2009 we rebranded to simply be The Eisen Agency. The rest is history!

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

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. And the very cool thing about being funded is that means they are hiring. and current so that employers find you a desirable hire. That’s what the money is there for. at 11:31 am [.]

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Hire smart people. Hire smart consultants. Your website was created in 1996, updated slightly in 2001, and left to rot ever since. via Theresa] "Websites that deliver in today's fast-paced, mobile-heavy internet market should not been seen as a nice to have!" The 10/90 rule. People matter. Give them Yahoo!

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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. After blowing up some electronic parts and searching the internet for replacements, founder Nathan Seidle saw a business opportunity for an online electronic parts store. How’d they do it? Noah realized this was a niche not to be ignored.

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