blog.alinelerner.com
JUNE 21, 2013
Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. While interviewing such a wide cross section of people, I realized that I had a golden opportunity to test some of the prevalent folk wisdom about hiring. As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude.
Austin Startup
MAY 15, 2019
And we did it by bootstrapping our company. In 2008, I was working on Tonido , a private file access, sync and share solution that essentially turned any private computer into a cloud server. raise capital, hire talent and build out from there. Investment, at any point, is like rocket fuel. We are ramping up.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 7, 2010
Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Rajan Chandi then discussed HirePlug.com , a Facebook application to help large employers manage referral hiring. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. If you have to raise money, try to do so as convertible notes.
Altgate
MAY 14, 2009
You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc. As an entrepreneur it means bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap. Until relatively recently, the capital requirements of technology businesses were quite large. Spend nickels like they were manhole covers.
Up and Running
AUGUST 5, 2015
MindKube’s inception: The year was 2008, and Natasha, like everyone, felt the effect of a badly wounded economy that did not afford many opportunities for career growth, but rather asked that all work harder for less. I had to go through hiring the wrong people,” Natasha admits. “I I hired one developer who didn’t protect his sites.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 9, 2009
As someone who has bootstrapped a software company ([link] and funded it through selling software and consulting to customers, I certainly know what it means to live lean and Ive even taken your advice ([link] I just wish I was in the Bay area and could come by "office hours". Labels: events 2comments: Andrew Meyer said.
Mucker Lab
MARCH 8, 2016
Four years after founding and bootstrapping Mucker Capital , we are pleased to announce the close of a new $45 million fund, Mucker III. The ones who would rather hire a sales guy than spend money on flavored morning lattes. The macroeconomic conditions of 2000, 2008 or even 2016 — none of that matters to them.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
98 
Let's personalize your content