Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

We’d never hired anyone. Within a few months, my wife went from teaching a few classes via Skype part time, to teaching full time, to hiring a pair of teachers to help her keep up with demand. You might feel like a bit of a wet blanket when you start pushing people to hire a lawyer and write up contracts or an operating agreement.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. When will key hires come on? Accounting?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Since then it has become much harder to find people and while we are talking about hiring relatively small numbers of people, the typical sources of candidates dont seem to be working.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.” These hires were definitely not your standard marketing types.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

I’ve been promoting tools like Google Alerts and Google Reader for years now and today Google added something called “ Me on the Web &# as an attempt to make it easier to monitor your identity on the web. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. MySQL, PHP, Software Architecture, Software Development, Software Testing, SQL, Web Hosting, AngularJS. Project/ Product Management.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 9, 2011

From a local business standpoint it gives Google another lever into the transaction while adding functionality for both buyer and seller. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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SiliconHills

MAY 14, 2015

a video and web conferencing firm, has announced plans to move into a bigger headquarters in the Barton Creek Plaza Office Building. The Austin-based startup, founded in 2007, also plans to hire additional employees to fill up its new office, which is more than 6,100 square feet. Vyopta Inc.,

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. They even create a tangled web of electronic files that are hard to unravel.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2013

So before you even hire this person to sell your home, you already have a positive impression of that person in your mind.” The year year is 2007, it’s early July and you are on the market for a new mobile phone. Beauty in web design. Boring web design, especially use of color. 15 times more. Small print.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 23, 2017

You can create a web and app experience that is useful, pleasing, and impactful – but you have to understand how UX and UI can help you and optimize each to improve the experience for your customers and prospects. According to Time News , 55% of web users spend fewer than 15 seconds on a website. Test it with your customers.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

So between 2002 and 2007, Compaq continued to use their logo with little change. HP began to slowly transition the brand after 2007 when the business began to market the ‘HP Compaq’ brand. The company launched web campaigns like SwaggerizeMe that was an instant hit among the target group.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 1 You should be doing what so many of your competitors are NOT doing – turning your attention toward building excitement around yourself and your brand. Otherwise, yeah, nice Web site, dude. No one cares. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

I started my business because I was sick and tired of web designers charging thousands of dollars and then not responding to calls/emails, taking forever to update things, and eventually disappearing never to be heard from again. It’s a huge problem in the web design industry and it happens all too often.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

They know the web is exciting. Prove it that my customers use the web. My approach to the prove it question has always been: "Look, it is insanely cheap to fail on the web. Before you start influencing someone about the power of the web, it is nice to have a handy dandy chart to show that the web is material.

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The Next Web

JULY 4, 2015

When I founded Datto in 2007, I didn’t really know what I was getting into. When I started building my team, I knew the attitudes of my first few hires were going to be as important as their resumes – maybe… This story continues at The Next Web.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2015

When Alina Martin took over her father’s small company in 2007 it had been ticking along, growing slowly for several years. Typically they’ll be working long hours while the company struggles to hire and train enough staff. This pressure often sucks companies into hiring the wrong people, just to get more bodies on staff.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, hey eric, love the blog. Expo SF (May.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. It’s clear that AngelList wants to help bring much of the transactional conversations and introductions that happen at the early stage of hiring and fundraising via word of mouth or in meetings online.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane’s first startup was Club Penguin , the largest online virtual world for kids, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350M. It was a challenge to convince companies to think past the traditional method of hiring consultants or researchers to test user experience: At first I tried to call business and enterprises.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 4 One of the most common forms of online marketing for small businesses is to have a website. The problem is, with today’s increasingly social and mobile web, a web site just isn’t enough. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 3 The web is not a venue where, “if you build it, they will come.&# Spend some time discovering where your customers and people like them are hanging out on the web. You have to make sure your audience knows your website is there and that it can help them.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane’s first startup was Club Penguin , the largest online virtual world for kids, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350M. It was a challenge to convince companies to think past the traditional method of hiring consultants or researchers to test user experience: At first I tried to call business and enterprises.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

Kelly Costello started Puppy Cake, a business that sells “people food for dogs,” in 2007. Johnathan Passley, owner of PDR Web Solutions. This restricted cash flow prevented me from being able to invest money back into the business to hire additional employees, buy equipment, and make marketing choices.”.

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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. Couldn’t we just hire a COO and have you stay as CEO?”. After more than a year of searching, we brought Dan Nye in as LinkedIn’s new CEO at the beginning of 2007.

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www.readwriteweb.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

To scale the service, Netflix has moved its API and other operations to Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the past several months. It would have also meant hiring any number of systems administrators and database managers. According to Gartner, between 2007 and 2012, most U.S.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

I had the idea to start Blue Compass in 2007 because I saw the need for a service. While numerous agencies existed that provided web services, they also focused on print, TV, radio and other media. 10 – Because No One Would Hire Me. Thanks to Ben Pagel, Buzz Bookstore. #9 Photo Credit: Drew Harden.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. After beginning their fund-raising efforts in 2007, the firm was ready to close in the fall of 2008—when the financial crisis hit Wall Street. © 2007-2012, Xconomy, Inc. Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. New York ›.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Nose to the grind "How do I" questions: David Walizer: How do you sell the value of web analytics to a skeptical client in 30 seconds or less? For help with identifying opportunities and how to do business analysis please see this post: The Beginner's Guide to Advanced Web Data Analysis. the web is so insanely fluid, 2.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

In addition, the national unemployment rate is down, and jobless claims recently fell to their lowest level since 2007. Seasonal Employee Hiring Surge. The largest retailers in America are getting ready for Black Friday and the entire holiday season by hiring seasonal employees. And the numbers are staggering. Website Updates.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2011

Verishow – live chat and support tool that also let’s you launch an on the spot web meeting with a site visitor. Bag the Web – helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a “bag&# to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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