Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Successful pinball companies didn’t hire Hollywood talent. Meanwhile our company was pouring an enormous amount of dollars into building tools and video compression technology, while also hiring a lot of high-priced Hollywood talent like art directors, and script and story editors. I know what’s great and what’s not.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. 2009) [ii]. Acquirer/ Investor. Angel groups using Gust.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

If you hire a VP of Sales with the idea that they can do customer discovery you violated the first principle of Customer Development – this isn’t a step the can be outsourced to a non-founder. Hiring a VP of Sales in customer discovery typically sets a startup back. However, your product itself will be doing a lot of the selling.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. Posted on November 14, 2009 by Travis Biziorek. Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. We extended a working agreement to one individual on Monday and decided to hire another person instead of the original plan of just one.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. Two Jobs at Once When I was hired at Zilog part of the deal was that I could consult for the first six months for my last employer, ESL.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. You rarely find full ratchets in early-stage deals any more. Nobody I know accepts multiple liquidation preferences in early-stage deals. And every seed stage VC tells me they don’t ever even ask for them.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Learn more about: Founders 40 responses so far · Comments RSS # scott edward walker · Nov 12, 2009 Great post.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Supercomputers get Personal Back in Sunnyvale my friend had not only been hired but had convinced the team that we should be building hardware – making a new class of computers not a software application. Reply steveblank , on October 5, 2009 at 2:08 pm Said: Chris, Ben was the founding VP of Engineering at Ardent.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

The implications for entrepreneurs is that each of these (market risk versus invention risk,) require radically different financing models, a different type of venture investor, different timing for hiring sales and marketing, etc. are much softer and much, much harder to measure (or believe) in a very early stage startup.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

In reality I had been hired as CEO and the adult supervision and administrative overseer of one of the most creative talents in the valley. Reply Wyatt ODay , on July 2, 2009 at 8:18 am Said: Great post, Steve. Thanks for sharing the lessons you’ve learned, especially the ones where the cost is measured in years.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. March 13, 2009 1:50 PM dan simard said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion. Sure - as you know, probably 40-50% of what we invest in at the early stage never makes it to a successful outcome. No need to name names.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. I’ve heard people say it’s impossible to hire good developers right now. I want to hire before I have the ability to pay anyone.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Building a new startup hub Last week, I had a unique opportunity to spend some time in Boulder at the behest of TechStars. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said. But all things are never equal.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. Do you find yourself hiring operators or PMs with that background?

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 23, 2022

I finalized my notes for the ODX Accelerator program, the early stage accelerator I am building at On Deck , and I wanted to summarize here. I love the start of programs, when teams are excited – all at the earliest stages of company creation. I starting thinking about advisors in 2009 publicly. Fundraising.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Quick caveats: having fewer investors (3-5) is better than many investors (10-15) and PLEASE make sure you hire a great lawyer who has experience in doing start-ups to avoid pitfalls that will make VC harder down the line. Make sure these people understand the nature of early-stage angel investing. Have they added value?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The rise of CVC volume is well documented (see post on VC Cafe), but what’s less discussed is funds started by mature startups or “new corporates” These are funds launched by venture backed companies to deploy capital into early stage startups innovating in their space. Startup Funds.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney. Branding/Copy.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

As a start-up ourselves in 2009, we experienced the challenges of building the right team as we scaled up. Was it a challenge to hire people having the right skills? ” Most job seekers avoid early-stage start-ups and prefer more established companies. Was it a challenge hiring your first five employees?

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages. Launch Date: April 16, 2009. Crunchbase. FOUNDER INSTITUTE.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

If your don’t have enough employees on the payroll, hire relatives, friends, or part-timers and train them. Reply steveblank , on May 22, 2009 at 2:39 pm Said: Morteza, The comments about “ignore this post&# were meant that if your sales channel is the web you rarely go to trade shows. Physical booth: What worked?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Many will say “it’s going to be another 2009 vintage!” In 2009, according to some old Payscale data I dug up, that number was $90,000. Believe me, I raised that $1 million seed round in 2009 and we never would have made it at these prices. In 2009, it was $37 in FiDi and below $30 for all of SF. This surprises nobody.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

These companies have a long way to go until global dominance in many cases, but they are all growing, hiring, and strengthening the local community right now. This is true when it comes to early-stage funding, but also as it relates to support platforms being built by local firms to help Boston-based startups. Much more funding.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Hiring Of all the issues we ran into when we first built our team, hiring was the most critical. So when you first start building your team, the most important hire should be your lead architect. The cliches of hiring the best of the best is as true in Malaysia as it is in the US. Part 1 How To Evaluate Early-Stage Web 2.0

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

While the Miami party scene may generate a lot of buzz, if everyone you meet wants to be the next big NFT kingpin, you’re going to wonder if you can hire everyone you’ll need and get them rowing in the same direction in critical, but basic areas like marketing, sales, etc. Angels can’t do it alone.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Early stage startups have to survive one day at a time and are often presented with limited choices of the moment that enable them to continue. Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

And it hires very smart people from the best schools. BTW, by the standards mentioned in the Times article, the following people would never have been interviewed or hired at Google. Google is looking to hire workers. Reply Jesse Farmer , on April 7, 2009 at 8:53 am Said: Customers don’t ask for your transcript.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. July 30, 2009 7:35 AM Hazem Awad said.

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gtziralis.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

This indeed is a healthy approach and it seems to work pretty well to begin with it, especially in the pre-product, or also in the pre-revenues early stage of a technology company. November 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009. March 2009. January 2009. September 2011. August 2011.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In 2009, a study by Forrester Research found that online shoppers expected pages to load in two seconds or less. That is a way cheaper to start than hiring a permanent staff. Social media marketing could also be effective during the early stages of your business. Step 5: Get your web hosting server.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Submitted by Jason Evanish on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 8:31am. 2) You’re hiring employees. Hiring employees through your company, rather than directly, helps limit your personal liability if something goes wrong in the employment relationship. 21) December 2009. (19) 19) November 2009. (9). what you need.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 2, 2009 Lessons Learned on Mashable today I had the good fortune to be asked to write a guest post over at Mashable , which is running today, called HOW TO: Raise Money in a Down Economy. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said. January 2, 2009 4:48 PM Chris Desouza said.

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