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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. 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.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Bplans and Palo Alto Software are strong supporters of entrepreneurs and small business owners. 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. There are metrics to review.

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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 )? Cleaning businesses are incredibly appealing due to their low cost of entry—it essentially comes down to the cost of cleaning materials alone.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. Show Up Early, Leave Late I’ve talked about how crunch time should be the exception in software projects. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Over 1 million people use 37signals simple web-based software to collaborate on projects, track contacts, and organize their business with an intranet. I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot. Got a web design project in mind? 27 Apr 10.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

After graduating high school, I was hired by the Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS). After retiring in 2001, I also joined a ladies networking group, On Purpose Networking for Women (OPN). Thanks to Katie Wagner, Katie Wagner Social Media ! #9 Image Credit: Anna Renault.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2017

Then also of course the desktop software, the smartphone app, the social media site, all that stuff and that’s how they held off the competition from Sony and other players. Could you leave an honest review on iTunes? Your ratings and reviews really help and I promise, I read each and every one. Dave Robertson: Yeah.

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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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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. I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. This slight misspelling of the word “code” seemed like the perfect combination of abstraction and substance.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

This input-output pair matches our intuition about how software works. You can also do it, As Joanna Wiebe suggested, by scouring authentic customer reviews. In her KISSMetrics article , she explained how she pulled direct quotes from app reviews, like: “It was like having my own personal coach while I ran.”. “I The results?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire.

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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 Lesson Learned : Build a peer review mentoring culture. None of them were hired by me, and instead they were picked up through a peer-review-hire process. STARTING IT UP. I smiled to myself.

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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. The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Some additional comments at the end.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Valence codes emotional events as positive or negative. You’ve probably heard of the famous BMW campaign from 2001. The campaign was comprised of 8 short films called The Hire. That’s the mark of high-arousal emotions. Arousal comes from our reptilian brain. Image Source. On the negative side, make people mad, not sad.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

by Gareth Wilson, Head of Marketing at Fog Creek Software. We also established a rule: there would be no cap on employee spending on furniture, software and hardware, nor would we have any process to go through to get those things. What’s more, just over three quarters of workers consider their ideas are poorly reviewed and analyzed.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 6, 2012

Honestly your site looks very 2001. You’d benefit from hiring a copywriter. And out of the blue you mention some software without giving a single hint what that is or why would one want it. You’re no match for Amazon in this regard, and hence I don’t really see a reason using your service, really. Testimonials?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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