YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

The chairs, desks and lighting, even the flooring and decoration all go towards creating (or hampering) a productive environment. 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. The key is to make investments count.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

On the other hand, most people thought Segway was the next big thing back in 2001, as an electric “personal transporter,” but it has yet to find a foothold. For example, many products are now offered by subscription, which was a concept from the services world. Yet today, Twitter is a fifty billion behemoth, and MySpace is forgotten.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Hire for hustle. A great way to separate the entrepreneurial thinkers from those who aren’t is to place a special emphasis on hiring people with a sense of urgency; people who can and will move quickly; people who don’t always have to be told what their next step should be. Use performance-based compensation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts. Seksom Suriyapa ?—?he

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2014

These are the ones who will spend extra hours on a project, who will think about that problem or product on the weekends, in the shower, wherever they go. Sinyard hires only employees who love biking and watches to see who does lunchtime group rides to separate the “talkers” from the “riders.” Give the gift of high expectations.

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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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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? Skills – I do product, business, marketing. The required number of cofounders for success is: “Zero” – You don’t need a cofounder. You are the founder, the visionary, the uber-entrepreneur.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Kenya Dilution 143

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. Google offers your product for free. 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. And I care more about the debate than trying to be popular.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. We usually decide upon a product name by seeing what the product does. Everybody knows what a product name should be. Apr 27 2010.

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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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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

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). If you are interested the Vimeo is here. And so on down then line. If a company that would traditionally raise $500k at a $3.5

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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). Where do your consumers fall?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2014

Hire accountable people. Of course, hiring an employee and then training him to be accountable is possible. But hiring people who are already accountable is a better, less costly option. Will it be able to provide great services or products to customers? Monitor your success and make adjustments as needed.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

million—than at any point since 2001. That assumption is now bunk, and so too are the production and consumption patterns that it supported. They conclude, however, that particularly since 2001, it’s become more common for grads to settle for part time or low-wage jobs in professions like retail and hospitality.

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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

JULY 22, 2010

Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. You’ll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company. It was accept the terms or go into bankruptcy so we took the money. Those were the dog days of entrepreneurship.

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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 22, 2020

Nevertheless, rising technology, individuals ‘ desire for more independence, and the high cost of hiring workers have led to a significant increase in the number of people going self-employed people. million people or 12% of the population worked for themselves in 2001. For example, how will you rate your products and services?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

It didn’t seem big enough for what I suspected I would soon be doing, which was hiring contractors to contribute to projects. words that reflected our product) and a row of ’secondary’ words that worked well as base words like stack, base, box. I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

First, there’s the external trust between an organization and its customers: Will a company stand behind its products? 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.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 16, 2018

In the world of HR, one of the biggest battles is finding and hiring exceptional employees. Not only is it a big perk that helps keep them happy while working for your company, but it prevents you from losing out on potential productivity when your employees can’t make it to the office. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

First, there’s the external trust between an organization and its customers: Will a company stand behind its products? 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.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

. “We would have won, but the other guys gave the deal away” – “The customer selected us technically and thinks we are the better company, but our competitor just gave the product away. The CEO, not wanting to believe that she’s losing product competitiveness, believes the Rep. You go into an account, you fight hard, and you lose.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 23, 2022

Heated competition AND layoffs and hiring freezes. And yet there are days and circumstances that feel like 2001 or 2009. I was trading emails a few weeks ago Elliot Noss from Tucows about the current state of the economy after being on a panel together about it, and he wrote: The market is fascinating right now.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2013

Customer acquisition, fund raising, hiring the right person… the list goes on. He started his business from scratch and grew it into a public-listed company on the Singapore Stock Exchange in 2001. His products were sold globally in 33 countries and his brand won the Superbrands award 3 years consecutively. So what do you do?

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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. Bet365 is a UK based online casino started in 2001 offering a wide variety of games that include bingo, poker, skill games and others. Some costs involved in setting up an online casino.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

It recognizes that forces that create chaos and confusion also upend deeply rooted habits and patterns of behavior — the status quo – that often block potential innovations and more productive ways of living. It had a fancier-sounding title: Product Manager. Now, with so much in flux, where do we go from here? Who flourishes?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

We come in after a product has landed and found product market fit and has some escape velocity. 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? That’s not what we do. David Zhang.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2015

These are management, sales and marketing, customer service, production/manufacturing, operations and safety. This is true for small non-manufacturing businesses to large scale production and manufacturing. The manager of each department should regularly review the safety manual with new hires during start up mode.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2015

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. Customers don’t care that it’s the supplier’s fault that you couldn’t get their product to them on time.

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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. If you end up being hired, then you can inquire about what the dress code is – and only then! And increasingly, the business world is using it for everything from internal meetings to job interviews.

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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. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup.

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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. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of that because when we think about how we invest in companies, we’re not thinking about just a product that people want. They’re products that are applicable to the people here now.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

People are tougher to gauge but products aren't much easier. Without naming the name of the companies, I clearly made two investments convinced of the product and that people would love it. In the case of these two companies, I clearly picked the wrong product. We weren't talking to the real users of these products.

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