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How To Hire Great Employees

YoungUpstarts

What common habits do nearly all great employees have? Great employees have strong discipline. The best employees have strong discipline. It’s important that employees stay disciplined during the ups and the downs. Great employees welcome criticism. Great employees embrace opportunities.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. Hyundai’s Assurance program, which debuted during the 2007–08 financial crisis, is a great example. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

At the end of the day Kayak’s playing a key role in the online travel process, but it appears more of the revenue comes from filling top of the conversion funnel rather than the middle or bottom of it. 5) High Productivity: Kayak had 148 employees at the end of 2010. 166M round closed Dec 2007. Series D Preferred.

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

We also wanted to get our Spanish speaking skills from conversational to fluent. If not, it’s time to get good at finding employees and hire an expert. But when I was working as a reporter in 2007, I covered the purchase of a local ski resort in Montana by business mogul Bill Foley. The key was to hit the ground running.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

It is the new cocktail party conversation. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. I saw VCs doing crazy things in 2007-08 when I first entered the VC market – crazy prices, limited due diligence, large funding rounds. We list it on our bio’s as bragging rights.

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