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. Hire After the Need, Not Before. About Eric. twitter.com/eric_sink.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. But you need simplicity to build a great enduring product and company. While it may seem obvious, I can say that hiring mistakes are what taught me the most.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

I found my productivity and creativity had increased… as well as my boredom. I was working hard to climb the ladder in the car business and had been helping customers at work with budgeting, and building their credit. In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. That’s right.

Entrepreneur 131

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

These are keepsake cards and many of our customers tell us that the recipients frame their cards. 9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust. That's when I was struck by the idea: Why not provide a legit B2B customer database that is neither dodgy and nor a bad fit for a business? that add texture.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Now, what you can charge and what you actually charge is rarely the same thing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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SVPG

AUGUST 21, 2013

Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. I thought - incorrectly it turns out - that this would be a temporary issue, while the Agile community gained experience, especially with commercial product companies.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

According to MDG Advertising , 67% of online shoppers rated high-quality images as being “very important” to their purchase decision, which was slightly more than “product specific information,” “long descriptions,” and “reviews and ratings”: ( Image source ). Joann Peck and Suzanne B.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Internal customer – How often do you take the internal temperature? How happy is your staff?

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Perhaps the team is working on a product that really isnt that great or useful. Maybe they never thought about product-market fit. Hiring Poorly. Some startups are destined for failure.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

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 project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! To develop your marketing strategy, think about the marketing efforts it would take to get more customers to renew.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2013

by Micah Solomon , customer service consultant, speaker and author of “ High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service: Inspire Timeless Loyalty in the Demanding New World of Social Commerce “ Customer service consulting can be intensive. Or, want to try to do your own customer service consulting, and avoid my fee?

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Entrepreneurs who are considering starting their businesses might want to start by looking at this list of qualifications/requirements: The entrepreneur must have an idea for a product or service and understands how to make it happen. Tech Startup dedicated to custom jeans circa 2013. Increased Productivity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Explain how you love providing great service and encourage customers to review your service.

Web 47

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

We launched as Leather Nova with just two specialty leather care products. We wanted customers to know where we specialized, so leather had to be part of the title. When our products took off on Amazon we realized that there was more runway to care for high-end products, but the name Leather Nova was too restrictive.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups. One (thing) we have talked about in the past is a lack of Product Managers, experienced technology Product Managers. (in in LA and Boulder) Is that true?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

According to MDG Advertising , 67% of online shoppers rated high quality images as being “very important” to their purchase decision, which was slightly more than “product specific information”, “long descriptions”, and “reviews & ratings”: Joann Peck & Suzanne B. image source.

Stock 129

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Nothing made any difference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? In a mature company with a mature product, the goal is to pay for lots of people to come to your website. SEM is a simple idea.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I hired another guide to help with the load, and I started charging for tickets to pay the guide. Then I read, listened to tons of podcasts/audio books, saved 10K of my per diem traveling money so I wouldn’t have to go in debt to acquire products & launched. I hire the best, so we’re all able to have it all.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to determine what is the product of genuine entrepreneurial wisdom and what is pure bunk. It requires time, hard work, and consistency to build trust with prospective customers, rank higher in Google searches, and gain a following for your brand. It’s easy to build a brand online.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product. But, why are there so many logging APIs in Java: log4j, SLF4J, sun logging, the layers on top, the custom bridges tools like Jetty add to bridge to one of them.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product. But, why are there so many logging APIs in Java: log4j, SLF4J, sun logging, the layers on top, the custom bridges tools like Jetty add to bridge to one of them.

Java 43

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2013

They invest in people as much as they do a product or service. It’s just as important to showcase the leadership team’s strengths and experiences in investor presentations as it is to detail the product vision and its eventual grand success. Get customers THEN funding. And with customers, funding follows easily.

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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). We instructed customers about how eCommerce was going to change their future.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

Landon Ray: Yeah, that would have been 2004. We pursued that and since I didn’t know anything about the web, we kind of split up duties and I took sales and marketing and he took web development because we’re building a software product. I’ve never made software before or even a website.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif.,

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

When it comes to subscription product pricing, you’re not just guessing…are you? You have to talk to customers and do some heavy lifting research to get accurate pricing. The other reason it’s so important is that the ONLY data source that’s going to tell you what your value is, is your customer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. Add onto that the incredible amounts of infrastructure code that we reused, and we were able to bring our product to market months earlier. In most cases, simple changes are simple to make.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Sabrina and Julie discuss the importance of monitoring your expenses and hiring top level employees. Julie Wurzer (right) started Patch Abilities in 2004, after being “fired” (2 years prior) from her ag sales job at the local farmer’s cooperative … yes, fired. TSheets – The #1 customer rated time tracking solution!

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Sabrina and Julie discuss the importance of monitoring your expenses and hiring top level employees. Julie Wurzer (right) started Patch Abilities in 2004, after being “fired” (2 years prior) from her ag sales job at the local farmer’s cooperative … yes, fired. TSheets – The #1 customer rated time tracking solution!

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