Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious management attention and/or resources. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. The result?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 16, 2018

In the world of HR, one of the biggest battles is finding and hiring exceptional employees. Document management software (DMS) makes it easy for employees to access the information and records they need in order to do their jobs, regardless of whether they’re in the office or not. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Home document management software is a tool that can turn niche employees like consultants, freelancers, and independent contractors into powerful, market-disrupting professionals. Home Document Management Software as the Organization Facilitator. by Jesse Wood, CEO of eFileCabinet.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2016

It’s an unconventional approach, but it helps keep the good people we’ve hired onboard, happy and extremely motivated. Hire great people to do boring work. It’s a big mistake not to hire the best talent, whatever role you need to fill. But in reality, that’s tiny in comparison to the costs of replacing staff.

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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. Conant joined the team in 2001, just as sales were declining for the company and its market value was decreasing.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2014

Fewer than a dozen if you can manage. Sinyard hires only employees who love biking and watches to see who does lunchtime group rides to separate the “talkers” from the “riders.” He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. That’s where you start. Lean and hungry. Is this fair?

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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. Hiring the big gun will often still be one weight class above where you want to hire. Not so fast.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2012

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. I also (as Fred describes us youngins) "work hard, put in ridiculous hours, are on top of all the latest trends, companies, technologies, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

I never hire job hoppers. You have tough choices to make about whom you hire on your team. Now is the time that you need “all hands on deck.&# That awesome gal you hired in engineering has job options and she knows it. When my company hit the fan in 2001 I could have easily walked and gotten a better paying job.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly), the answer to these are “NO” Not at least according to “ Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t “, a phenomenal business bestseller published in 2001 by renowned business author Jim Collins. 3) What drives your economic engine.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

In terms of TVPI, the total value to paid-in ratio used by fund managers to evaluate a fund’s performance, the median dropped 3.5% Remote hires represent the majority in the US in H1 2022. In 2019, about 35% of new hires were based in a different state than the primary company headquarters. It cites 3 reasons for that: 1.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Hire everyone you need as an employee. Impossible to manage.”. Of course, Excite also went bankrupt in 2001, so maybe five is a terrible number? The required number of cofounders for success is: “Zero” – You don’t need a cofounder. You are the founder, the visionary, the uber-entrepreneur. One” – You have to have a cofounder.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

The second dimension is the internal trust between employees, managers, and top-level management. The key is to hire and promote leaders who truly do live the values your company espouses. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Do leaders keep their promises?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson. While it was not a widespread problem, there was an element of micro-management at the wrong levels. 15 minutes. Pricing information.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2014

We recommend it, because meetings provide an opportunity for management to highlight people who have demonstrated good accountability, as well as to show where things went wrong and what could have been done better. Hire accountable people. Of course, hiring an employee and then training him to be accountable is possible.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

By 2001, he was invested in the stock market and witnessed a unique situation where the stock market was in a tumble and, simultaneously, real estate was going up. When he hired property managers, they ended up taking the majority of his profits. Early Career in Real Estate .

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

The second dimension is the internal trust between employees, managers, and top-level management. The key is to hire and promote leaders who truly do live the values your company espouses. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Do leaders keep their promises?

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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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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 ). While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

How is it possible that when you lose a top-rated employee before you can say “unwanted attrition”, the manager carefully explains how her performance fell off? . “We When the facts don’t align with the good news, a clever manager will find the narrative to make everybody feel better—until the next meeting. “We

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2013

Customer acquisition, fund raising, hiring the right person… the list goes on. He was the Executive Chairman and CEO of the Company, overseeing all activities of the Group including managing the growth and providing strategic directions. So what do you do? You learn from entrepreneurs who have been there and done that.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

However, if you chose to work with a partner ensure they offer user-friendly front end, a gaming management system, payment module and access to betting markets and top events. 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.

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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. Social networks come and go, but people always have an inbox—and they want to be connected with people who bring them value.

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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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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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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. At that point I was a few years into my career and working as a project manager at Apple.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2015

These are management, sales and marketing, customer service, production/manufacturing, operations and safety. Generally, the regulatory affairs representative is responsible to provide regular safety training for employees and management. by Lewis Robinson. In all business organizational structures, there are several major elements.

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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. Do you have a car (more specifically, a 4-door sedan, year 2001 or newer )? Resume building. Maybe you are a graphic design whiz and love creating a polished, professional-looking resume. Programming. Driving for Uber.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 11, 2014

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. Betting on people prematurely can also be a great hiring strategy. Second, how fortunate I am that along the way in my career, certain people have helped out.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It is crucial to involve your employees right from the start of the growth management process, so they will have a sense of buy-in and commitment to the new vision. Typically they’ll be working long hours while the company struggles to hire and train enough staff. Being open and honest with your staff will help.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. As many of your listeners may know, there was an incredible piece published by a gentleman from Founders Fund, discussing Tiger [Global Management] and how they’re focused on the speed and scale business. On Sushi and VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

You can read it in VCs discussions about hedge fund managers, activist investors or the need to have dual-share voting structures. We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. I put up this slide as part of my discussion.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

The owner was not equipped to manage people. 3 – Google Regional Sales Manager. Before starting Badger, I worked at Google as Regional Sales Manager. Sales Account Manager. Sales Account Manager for a leading NYC based StartUp. Thanks to Natalie Harper, Harper PR. #3 Image Credit: Steve Benson. 4 – Sr.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

by Ken Blanchard, author of the best selling “ The New One Minute Manager ” and the new “ Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results “ To me, servant leadership is the only way to guarantee great relationships and great results. They don’t call and ask, “Is it okay?

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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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Up and Running

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Because whether you are a software startup or have a taco truck, ethics failures can hurt the bottom line, writes Shanté Roddy, CEO of Intuitive Risk Management International. Your top management has to believe that this is important enough in the workplace to invest resources in it. And so it has to be believed by your leaders.

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