www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture. People would only get paid if the candidates got hired.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In some strange way, a big part of his competitive advantage is that he is able to outsource everything and maintain such a low cost structure. where you can leverage some internal “low cost&# time. World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make. So it can be done. 99designs are simplistic.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 communication. million in 2004 to $6.5 and customer expectations.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 communication. million in 2004 to $6.5 and customer expectations.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2018

To start a CSR project, you can identify needs in your community and develop a project around that need. Because of that, our purpose – to empower people to live more beautiful lives – sits at the center of everything we do as company and compels us to keep community at our core. 2-Using an app. Photo Credit: James Citron.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 communication. million in 2004 to $6.5 and customer expectations.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

We started the Barefoot Wine brand in our laundry room in 1986, made it a nationwide bestseller, and successfully sold the brand to E&J Gallo in 2005. In a small company, cost-saving ideas, customer retention, and marketing concepts can come from anywhere. Of course you need to hire well. They don’t have to.

Small Business 210

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 communication. million in 2004 to $6.5 and customer expectations.

Retention 98

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

We may even know the statistics like Human Capital Institute ’s revelations that companies with highly engaged employees enjoy profit growth at three times the rate of their competitors, and that increased engagement reduces turnover — one of the largest hidden costs in business — by 87 percent. Hire smart. So, yes: We know.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

The major change Josh and his team recognized was that startup costs were dropping dramatically in post-crash early 2000s, and by investing in a larger # of smaller seed rounds at $250K-$1M, rather than fewer / later Series A rounds at $2-5M, they could capture more winners & success earlier in the funding lifecycle.

Silicon Valley 74

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

The trend towards tiered levels of paid content will continue to escalate and the ability to foster community around your content will be the most important measure of value. No accountability People have become so used to signing up for things with no cost that it’s created an environment of no accountability.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

The output takes the form of events where portfolio execs can meet each other, online communities where they can share knowledge and blog posts and talks from experts to disseminate best practice. This is what brings us to the second big difference: the cost of Applied Venture is too large to finance from a standard VC management fee. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. Great lifestyle, great cost of living, motivated people and only the crap weather on the negative side. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2011

One very powerful way to do this on Facebook is to Like other active pages and start to network with, converse, ask and answer relevant questions as your Page inside of these communities. I’m talking about identifying Pages that might have communities you could target and taking a few minutes each day to get active there.

Small Business 78

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- To build a community. I wanted to be a part of a community of consultants that would provide me with the opportunity to build relationships with other practitioners, share lessons learned, and periodically collaborate. Photo Credit: Will Bachman.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2011

You can do this by creating starter offerings that are free or low cost, packaging information products that make your solutions accessible, or presenting educational workshops that teach while putting your approach on display in a non-sales environment. The offer of exclusivity or community is very appealing to most, no matter the industry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2011

He has also developed a large and loyal following in the creative community with his short non-fiction work titled The War of Art : Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Accelerate Your Startup Ideas Are Free, Execution Is Priceless Are You Making Evil Plans?

Small Business 57

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2015

Yes, your new millennial hires will be the low men and women on your company’s totem pole. But that doesn’t mean they can be treated dismissively or viewed as a cost. All of this helped our people to stay fresh and involved, and kept morale high. Philanthropy.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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. They're also dedicated to giving back to the community and their employees, who each receive three pints of ice cream per day.

Entrepreneur 121

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

To catch you up, here’s a brief summary of TinySeed: TinySeed is a remote accelerator designed for SaaS founders seeking mentorship from world-class experts, community with other talented founders, and enough funding to live for a year. Previously On.TinySeed.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Many start-ups are going through ups and downs and this change would both incentivize them to hire more when things are going well and lay off less people in the downturns Examples from other countries: Russia reduced IT companies’ social contributions from 30% to 14% until the end of year 2017 2.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

We had no point of sales system, we were literally taking IOUs in a cigar box from people for stuff like that because there was no electricity to actually run a cash register and we didn't have mobile registers back then in 2005. And you think about how hard it is to hire a normal employee in any business.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. Without a product for your term, build a community.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Standards arehigher; people are more sympathetic to what youre doing; the kindof people you want to hire want to live there; supporting industriesare there; the people you run into in chance meetings are in thesame business. They might accidentally hire someonebad, but its not going to kill the company. Idont think theres an answer.

Startup 108

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2008

The article does a great job describing the dynamics of building out a two-sided market like Monster.com (job seekers and hiring managers), Google (“searchers&# and advertisers), etc. Apparently 60% of the largest companies in the world have business models with two-sided markets.

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Customer Boston Valuation Venture Capital 31

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. They may also contribute code to the community that comprises the backbone of their technology.

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France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you support that platform with inspirational and informative subject matter that helps guide people along the way, and then offer them a community of service providers who can help round out their team—well, that’s the ticket. As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

But his experiments, which hed been conducting for at least 12 years, showed him clearly that cutting the workday from ten hours to eight hours — and the workweek from six days to five days — increased total worker output and reduced production cost. At that point, the costs strongly begin to outweigh the advantages.

Software Review 90

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

As his company grows, he likes the option of hiring flexibly and being able to consider job candidates from other cities and countries. Once they solidify the next hire, the ThinkBinder team will be moving to their own offices. For a small business with two to three people, coworking is a great option.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

In ten years, from the early 1950′s to the early 1960′s, the valley went through a hiring frenzy as jobs in microwave companies went from 700 to 7,000. An interesting phenomena of the 1920s that illustrates the fragility and cost of vacuum tubes is the “Reflex Receiver&# design methodology.

Silicon Valley 279

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

While all of these factors are true to an extent, the truth of the matter is that the reduced costs of hardware and software are easily offset by the expense of engineers and experienced business people. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. This is exactly what we have done with [link].

Startup 79

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. To find that buyer, I pretty much contacted the people who were within my sphere of influence within the community of Magic – players, card store owners, people who traded cards.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

Whether you’ll be name-brainstorming yourself or have hired a branding firm, here are a few tips to help you pick the right name for your new business. A year ago I was involved in setting up a new social media marketing company and I wanted a name that was simple descriptive, easy to remember and wasn’t going to cost a fortune.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In 2005, we launched all three products — in the order of listings, subscriptions, then ads — eventually discovering two surprising insights: The principal market for our listings and subscriptions products became the recruiting space, instead of business development and networking. That’s a worthy value proposition.

Entrepreneur 111

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it.

Technical Review 84

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Treasury Department assembled 17 leaders of the startup business investment community, under the auspices of its Access to Capital Conference. During a 25-year span of time until 2005, their final report noted, nearly all net job growth in the U.S. In March 2011, the U.S. was created by firms less than five years old.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2017

People would hire me to do marketing plan or social media strategy or whatever. The key thing … and this actually a study that I cite in Entrepreneurial You, there was a study, there was done a longitudinal study of podcasts between 2005 and 2015. That was it, that was the only tool in my toolkit.

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