Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Monday, February 04, 2008. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). As soon as you’ve climbed the Sales Learning Curve, begin ramping your sales force by hiring renewal-oriented account managers.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The most important hiring criteria for your executives is cultural fit. As CEO, you are responsible for every hire. Until Fab reached 150 people, Bradford and I interviewed every single person we hired. If we make a hiring mistake - and we do from time to time - I put that blame on me, not on anyone else.?. Fab Culture.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

They hired the Sustainable Economies Law Center to write to the U.S. Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin and Eric Schell co-founded Indiegogo in 2008 to enable anybody with a great idea to make that idea happen. Securities and Exchange Commission and request they exempt securities offerings up to $100,000 with a limit of $100 per investor.

Securities and Exchange Commission 148

Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Hire a programmer. Advice: See this great article on how to hire a programmer. Advice: Hire a Programmer. As a personal experience, if we had been building a Groupon competitor, we would have hired a programmer. Cons: It will cost you money.

Hiring 41

Hiring Cofounder API Aggregator 41

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

There simply won’t be soft-landings and acqui-hires for all of them. Others have blamed the brutal hiring environment on everyone being able to start a company — whether they should or not — and argued that concentrating resources on fewer ideas would make the Valley a lot stronger.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Each kind of shard just maps to an appropriate kind of URL: customer://1234 (id) forums://master (vertical) log://January/2008 (date) You can even do more complex schemes, like having groups of IDs all map to the same URL in a bucket system, although I recommend keeping it simple whenever possible.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. View More in Boston ›. View More in Detroit ›. New York ›.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Hire a programmer. Advice: See this great article on how to hire a programmer. I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder.

Hiring 41

Hiring Cofounder Ruby Founder 41

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Since small businesses are responsible for the vast majority of new jobs, legislators believe that these new rules will make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise capital and ramp up hiring. My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. ► 2008. (14).

SEC 54

SEC San Jose Angel Investor Accredited Investor 54

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. The decision to switch out of the chief executive’s role in early 2008 was preceded by one of those conversations with myself.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. a guide for hackers) You buy virtual goods The free software hiring advantage Continuous deployment and continuous learning The lean startup @ Web 2.0 President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

Venture Chronicles

JULY 11, 2010

Hiring in Anticipation of an Economic Recovery&#. “The shift underscores the remarkable recovery of the biggest banks and brokerage firms since Washington rescued them in the fall of 2008, and follows the huge rebound in profits for members of the New York Stock Exchange , which totaled $61.4 billion in 2009, the most ever.&#.

Balance Sheet 47

Balance Sheet New York Aggregator Washington 47

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Perhaps they’ll be able to hire someone especially skilled in the marketing skills needed to find this positioning. This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Some ecosystems are stable, others malign, and others grow and prosper.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Application level diagnostics Despite the best testing, defects still happen.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. Hiring was a challenge we found difficult throughout the life of our Company.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. And these are people that we spent so much time to hire. And that hadn't happened since 2009 and we launched in late 2008. And last week I had to say goodbye to 1,900 people.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

In fact theyd cause there to be more jobs for Americans, because the companies they started would hire more employees as they grew. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Founder DC Washington 150

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Wistia has been around since 2008. It improved hiring, too, driving an 8X increase in applicants from 200 to 1,600 in just two weeks. Brightcove analytics aggregated data effectively across those platforms. Alternatively, there’s a six-month Developers Plan , whereby you get access to all features except live streaming.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I believe in the new world you describe, but I think you forget the role that the distributors play in aggregating content for a self-selecting consumer "type" The easiest place to see this in newspapers, where consumers normally buy a newspaper that shares their political viewpoint. [link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!): … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Or you just hired me to do consulting for you this year at $10 per hour? In aggregate trends can hide insights and hence "dirty" the data. Let's say I did lots of things to drive SEO from Nov 2007 to May 2008. No no no, not hire Matt, segment your trends when you compare them. Have you doubled the team?

Analytics 68

Analytics Metrics Search Florida 68

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic. Use tools like Google Trends for Websites (or Compete or HitWise ) to analyze your performance… In the report above if you ( Hilton Hotels ) ran your campaigns in March 2008 (purple arrow) then you managed to accomplish nothing.

Campaign 128

Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 128