YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, authors of “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “ These days we hear plenty about employee engagement. We know disengaged employees are bad for business. Frankly, it’s because in many cases employees really don’t have a stake. Hire smart.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

No matter who occupies the White House, entrepreneurial small business owners will have to rely on who we’ve always relied on to be successful: ourselves, our employees, and our customers. 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.

Small Business 210

Small Business Retention Government Distribution 210

Feld Thoughts

JULY 5, 2015

There was one construct that bothered me – Geis’ use of the phrase “acqui-hire” and his effort to categorize acquisitions as acquihires, ACQUI-hires, acqui-HIRES, and ACQUI-HIRES. The earliest use of the phrase I could find was in 2005 in Rex Hammond’s post Google acquires(?)

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Acquisition Cap Table Framework Retention 70

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

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. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put. No Dave S. =

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Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. Number of employees? You’ve built detailed analytics tracking into your product and you should be seeing organic and viral growth; and can provide Daily/Weekly/Monthly Active Users, 30d/90d/120d retention. Step 4: Series B – you raise $10-$50M.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. Expensify Blog. Some additional comments at the end.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

EB : Honestly, I wasn't even aware of Silicon Valley or this whole concept of startups and tech companies until 2005. My answer's really it isn't, that is, since 2005, a lot has changed. And, to be more practical, if you're an employer, if your employees just- give them time off to get vaccinated. EB : Yeah.

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Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. find/hire freelancers. hire low-cost international engineering talent. VWorker -Â find/hire freelancers. Seed Startups.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53