Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney. Branding/Copy.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

There are three tiers to the global mining industry, and it is the third tier – known as the “junior” space – that is familiar to many entrepreneurs involved in early-stage projects. In 2005, Warke founded the Augusta Group of Companies, a conglomerate of public and private business. Warke’s sale of Arizona Mining Inc.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Member since 01/2005. Before you agree to take equity in lieu of cash, you need to understand that any individual early stage start-up company equity is most likely going to be worthless. Have not met anyone I wanted to hire who was willing to work for equity. Should You Hire People With Graduate Degrees for Your Startup?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

I was just going to get hired somewhere. Your resume looks a little odd when you’ve been in church work for like 12 years, so nobody hired me, and I thought, “Oh, I guess I need to start my own business again.” I’ve been podcasting since 2005, how’s that a trend? That sounds sort of absurd.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

I have been working with a number of early stage teams going through various stages of fundraising and using this diagram to help explain my thoughts on some of the questions they will come up against. Well, for starters I don’t believe there was the ubiquity of broadband that existed in 2004-2005. why/why not?

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

As the number of startups has exploded over the last 30-40 years best practices have been developed that can be shared from one early stage company to the next. This trend accelerated through the emergence of VC and operator blogging in the early 2000s. . Entrepreneurship is becoming more science and less art.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

I speak from personal experience, since I hired and partnered with a CEO, Jeff Weiner, very successfully at LinkedIn five years after co-founding the company. I love the early stages of building a company. Couldn’t we just hire a COO and have you stay as CEO?”. How do I know when to replace myself? This can work, too.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses…it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding. 2: We Focus on Early Stage SaaS. We’re a SaaS accelerator, and accelerators focus on early-stage companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

Now, that may not be enough for some to trudge through learning another interface, but I think it’s reason enough to recommend you put it on your radar of things to look at while it’s still in the early stages. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie (CEO) and Dylan Smith (CFO), Box provides a secure content sharing platform where content can be shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone applications, among others, and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

 Typically they are very early stage (usually pre-revenue and often pre-product) companies that have a partial management team and hope to raise $2-5 million to "go build it."  They hired 13 new people in Q4 of last year!  The seasons have changed.  They assist with work-outs and bankruptcy.

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Altgate

MARCH 17, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting NEW Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0

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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. the move to networks) amplified that value considerably.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

You’ll also likely be hiring local staff for your new office. Since these early individuals will be critical to the success of your business, being present and managing them firsthand will effectively establish a precedent, not to mention, align them with the overall culture and vision of your company.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. Want to start a startup?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. 4 ] Seed Funding Firms Seed firms are like angels in that they invest relatively smallamounts at early stages, but like VCs in that theyre companiesthat do it as a business, rather than individuals making occasionalinvestments on the side. Want to start a startup?

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In the early stages of a company, this can be critical. In the very early stages of a technology company, one of the biggest unnecessary cash sinks is office space. The need to hire another employee meant the need for another desk, another computer, and more equipment that my home office simply couldn’t handle.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

For startups the early stage funding landscape looks like this: Step 1: The Pre-seed round – you raise $100-$750K. Btw, the definition of each startup financing stage has changed in the last decade. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. Still, there are some benchmarks to keep in mind.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. Look for people writing about hiring, about real estate about small business in general. More details → Jobs by Simply Hired. ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Erica- These are excellent tips. Alexis Maybank.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In my neck of the woods programmers are hired guns at first year in college. No phone system.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

It hardly deserves any attention at all in the early stages. For some closing thoughts, I’ll just add that: Valuation tends to be too much of a focus for most early stage companies. I know this sounds crazy, but it’s not. Read more about deal math on Brad Feld’s blog. Future value is key.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

First, the valuation of early-stage startups remains frothy and fraught with uncertainty. While all Google Ventures partners make some seed investments, the firm recently hired Digg founder Kevin Rose as a partner ; Rose focuses on early-stage and seed investments, drawing on his extensive experience as an angel investor.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

simply arent crucial to success or failure, and for an early stage startup that means they were wastes of time — you could have done 10x more with that same amount of time and resources." — Jonathan Wegener , Founder, Timehop and ExitStrategy. Hiring Poorly. Most features/options/buttons/settings/etc.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? find/hire freelancers. hire low-cost international engineering talent. VWorker -Â find/hire freelancers. It used to be hard to find information about early stage startups.

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