Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Helping American businesses access the information and services that will help them grow, hire American workers, and export to foreign markets. As RFP-EZ is tested and scaled, a new effort will be launched to improve Federal procurement by building a portal of prices paid by agencies under their contracts. ProjectMyUSA on Twitter.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He We’re building a supercomputer.”

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

When we created Yeeply in 2012 we were sure IT hiring was going to be all about freelancing platforms and remote work. When I first incorporated my company back in 2009, the lawyers I had contracted with to trademark the company name and logo desperately tried to convince me to change the name. Photo Credit: Carol Kasten.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? Adamac Attack!

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. I still dont have a technical co-founder and at this point - I dont need one.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. can feel you now—corporate recruiters at career fairs, sending offer letters to work at banks and consulting firms. Call it facts for hire.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. So you see my dilemma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Just change it.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team. You’d have to look at your stock options contract.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

We have been in business as ONTRAPORT for 11 years, coming up on 12 here and yeah, growing very well, profitable, have been profitable for almost all of our history since 2009 with one year exception and growing bootstrap basically. There’s another track for our consultant partners. It’s not one of the biggest challenges.

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Startup Advice: Lessons Learned from Building a Development Team View What links here Posted by Fan Bi on July 19th, 2009 Over the past few months, I’ve explored a bunch of different ways to develop a website without a web developer on the Blank Label team. On a bootstrapped budget free is great.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. Dwelling or being married to a bad idea is not a good way to allocate resources. 3 – Not the right team.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. There are only a tiny fraction of people who hit on all the right circumstances to go from prototype to hit in a straight trajectory. How To Get There.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I went to the Columbia Engineering Career Fair in October 2009 and left with ~150 resumes. We hired three guys from that batch and paid them in iPhones. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. It builds trust and earns buy-in from the people you hire. When you’re hiring folks, don’t promise equity upfront.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. January 16, 2009 2:54 AM DROCKsaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

What was that, 2009, 2010? I think it was 2009 and 10. So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company. ER : Do you know how big of a fraction of the California vaccine rollout you guys have been? ER : I remember Speed Date. EB : Yeah. So around 4%.

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