Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

” Su and Ben started plotting their new venture in April of 2011, and were ready to leave their jobs by June. We actually consult with each client, and tend to become an extension of their marketing team or development office.”

Small Business 142

Small Business Advisory Board Employee Entrepreneur 142

Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

She was a data analyst and has been in People and leadership roles since 2011. Employee referrals were the lowest performing at 12 months, the highest at 3 months. So basically, the bias of employee referrals was super strong, and the key to accelerating performance is actually relationships. Do you want miserable employees?

Part-Time VPE 136

Part-Time VPE Software Review Salary Non-Compete 136

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2011

Welcome to the New Year 2011! In addition, you’re a role model for partners and employees. Make your resolution today to keep the long road ahead in 2011 a satisfying one. You’ve probably already made your resolutions, but if not, I suggest a renewed commitment to finding happiness and satisfaction in your work.

Restful 262

Restful Analytics Matching Entrepreneur 262

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Utilizing these experiences and the principles of a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, she started MAS Connections in 2011. Not only do we need to be able to communicate the change and details, but we also need to be transparent and personal with our employees; we must understand, but also appeal to the emotions of our employees.

Founder 108

Founder Cofounder Social Media Software Review 108

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. We’re less than 8 years old so you can do the math on growth rates and figure out that we’re on an elite trajectory.

Engineer 152

Engineer Revenue San Francisco Security 152

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2011

There are numerous methods to use for your employee review and each has it’s advantages, but on a practical level, most small companies approach this process as a simple conversation. Reflect on the employee’s overall contribution, their growth in terms of skills and abilities, and how they work with the rest of the team.

Small Business 90

Small Business Startup Chicago Retention 90

David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

Prior to joining ffVC, I co-founded an early stage fashion messaging startup, and joined a TechStars NYC 2011 company as first engineering employee. I’ve also made significant engineering contributions to our two other platforms, Admin (back-end portal for our data team) and Access (LP dashboard).

Private Equity 113

Private Equity Equity Cap Table Venture Capital 113

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

The image above is taken in Takotna, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. More phenomenal photos from 2011 are in the Other section below. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 7, 2020

With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas and Houston, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors and customers. Thousands of entrepreneurs, programmers and designers gather day and night, in-person and online for meetups, classes and coworking.

Austin 68

Austin Cofounder Texas Houston 68

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

April 17, 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The video is put together with the findings from a survey by global human resource and financial consultancy firm Mercer , which was conducted among nearly 30,000 employees in 17 markets worldwide from Q4 2010 to Q2 2011.

Video 171

Video Employee Global Marketing 171

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Karen Reddington is Regional Vice President of FedEx Express, South Pacific, a position that she assumed since June 2011. In her role, Dr Reddington is responsible for leading and driving the FedEx business in the South Pacific region, which comprises some of the world’s fastest growing economies.

New Zealand 206

New Zealand Malaysia Indonesia Singapore 206

YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2014

So Wave was built for businesses with 9 employees or less, including all those one-person shops out there. Wave is a free, cloud-based tool specifically designed for small businesses. Wave understands here’s a world of difference between the needs of a 5-person company and a 55-person company.

Management 167

Management Software Review eCommerce Entrepreneur 167

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Even hiring mammoth Google , who once tried to identify the smartest candidates with bizarre interview brainteasers, later admitted that their unusual questions weren’t reliable predictors of who would ultimately become a good employee. Think about a time when an employee didn’t work out, then go back over the initial interviews.

Employee 100

Employee Hiring Management Conversion 100

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Wayfair - $350M + revenue, 300 employees. Chase Garbarino – BostonInno. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). Gemvara - Online retailer for customized jewelry. Founded by recent Babson Alum. Recently raised their very first VC round from Battery and Spark earlier this year. HubSpot - Inbound marketing pioneer.

Boston 56

Boston Technical Review Community CTO Hire 56

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

We let our customers, our investors, and our employees down. Customers voted with their wallets and didn’t buy our products. The company went out of business. Given the press we had garnered, it was a pretty public failure.

Philadelphia 335

Philadelphia Miami Thailand Silicon Valley 335

YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2013

In fact, shoppers in 2011 need 10.4 Traditional ways include promoting one’s link on emails, websites, advertisements, and stores, as well as engaging one’s employees to be advocate. pieces of information before making a purchase – a doubling of the 5.3 If content is fire, social media is gasoline.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Phoenix Metrics Singapore 133

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

All messaging coming from employees should be aligned with your company’s values and brand. Just ten percent say they will not use social media in 2012, down from 24 percent for 2011 and 39 percent for 2010. Your social media policy needs to outline how team members behave in the online universe during and outside of work.

Social Media 233

Social Media Media Lead Generation Startup 233

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Outside parties also make it easier for executives to be candid about who the good leaders are, and the employees can be candid with the consultant about where they are struggling in management (something they are less likely to do with their colleagues). Seed to Series D: Collaboration. At Women 2.0

Technical Cofounder 113

Technical Cofounder Burn Rate Seed Stage Cofounder 113

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Today, September 13, 2011 is launch day ! A Conversation with Eric Ries Thursday, September 15, 2011, 7:30 PM 1855 Main St , Santa Monica , CA ( map ) Price: $30.00 /per person Eric not only created the term "Lean Startup", he has sparked a movement that is changing the way people think about startups. Employees only.

Lean 155

Lean Seattle Los Angeles San Francisco 155

Up and Running

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And since they aren’t built overnight, nurturing customer relationships can be a core development goal that influences your marketing , employee training, and planning efforts. This can be one-off discounts, free appetizers or gift cards provided at the discretion of your employees or you could officially establish a rewards program.

Customer 85

Customer Channel Email Programming 85

Gust

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

All messaging coming from employees should be aligned with your company’s values and brand. According to the “Small Business Marketing Forecast 2011” from Ad-ology, social media will be the biggest budget gainer among small businesses in 2011, with 39.4% It should include education on style preferences and confidentiality.

Social Media 125

Social Media Media Startup Curation 125

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

Managing and Motivating Employees in Their Twenties – [link]. 42 Fresh PS Tutorials In Early 2011 – [link]. Top 10 Tech Investing Trends For 2011 – [link]. Core Peer Groups: How I Found a Co-Founder, Built a Prototype, and Raised $5M in 4 Weeks&# – [link]. – [link]. How effective is crowdsourcing?

Social Media 97

Social Media Small Business Design Media 97

www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

2) You’re hiring employees. Many federal and state laws govern the employer-employee relationship and impose numerous obligations on the employer. Hiring employees through your company, rather than directly, helps limit your personal liability if something goes wrong in the employment relationship. October 2011. (1)

IP 40

IP Intellectual Property Limited Liability Company Boston 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

Liquidity can help attract new employees and keep current ones happy. If you have been giving stock options, employees will want you to be a public company, to exercise their rights to buy the stock and sell it at a profit. Of course, you’re going to have to perform well to make that stock useful in the acquisitions process.

IPO 223

IPO Social Media Media Exit Strategy 223

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

You may want a section to highlight employees, ingredient sourcing, your social channels, or even a blog. From there, you can litter different images of the restaurant, employees, and more food throughout the rest of the site. Editors’ Note: This article was originally published in 2011 and updated for 2020.

Technical Review 95

Technical Review Software Review Social Media eCommerce 95

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

3/15/2011 – All in on Facebook, “Your Trusted Social Media Marketing Company” Social Media Platform. 7/19/2011 – Same page, but Wayback Machine stops crawling pages. 8/15/2011 – The day that Buddy Media became a software company? 8/31/2010 – Same thing.

Software 105

Software Media Social Media Advertising 105

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2020

During that 2008-2011 period, for the first time, the number of business starts fell below the number of business failures. How have employees been affected? She points to a study by Microsoft that showed employees’ brains are measurably more stressed working remotely than in an office. Is your supply chain stable?

Small Business 162

Small Business Social Media Stock Employee 162

Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Apple was mostly a curiosity in the late 1970s, when I played with the children of some of its early employees and had the privilege of playing then-state-of-the-art games on their Apple II computers in glorious monochrome ASCII. The Startup Visa movement is aimed at a pain point that is near and dear to my heart.

Silicon Valley 187

Silicon Valley San Francisco Intellectual Property Accredited Investor 187

Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2014

A 2011 Deloitte study further confirms these sentiments by suggesting a link between workplace volunteerism and positive corporate culture. He says he began doing things like that after this series of interactions, and gained more authenticity and trust between himself and his employees. At that point, it was time to pull the plug.

Software Review 126

Software Review Employee Retention Silicon Valley 126

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Last week, Mike wrote about Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2011 Version. In that post, he briefly mentioned that the end of the calendar year is a good time to conduct employee reviews. I’m not a fan of end-of-year employee reviews. No employee is perfect. No person is perfect. Stay human.

Employee 89

Employee Small Business Conversion Startup 89

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 3, 2011

New guidelines on how entrepreneurs can satisfy the employer-employee relationship requirement for an H-1B visa (see the second-to-last question about sole owners). There are additional guidelines listed in detail at the following links. New guidelines on how entrepreneurs can qualify for an EB-2 green card with National Interest Waiver.

Startup 182

Startup Washington Technical Review United States 182

View from Seed

MAY 31, 2023

A couple of years later, as reported by the Harvard Business Review in 2011 , a survey of ~500 entrepreneurs in the UK found that serial founders frequently refrain from learning from their failures to minimize the psychological impact. However, it is important to consider the potential of failure in the early stages of building.

Silicon Valley 156

Silicon Valley Cofounder Term Sheet Founder 156

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

5 Design Trends That Small Businesses Can Use in 2011 – [link]. Employee Equity: How Much? Employees don’t promote their own companies on Twitter. Employees don’t promote their own companies on Twitter. More about this bizarre purchase in the “Other&# section below. Need a logo? – [link].

Social Media 96

Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. Girish and his team are former Zoho employees and bring to their entrepreneurial efforts the perspective and learnings of Zoho, which has been successful in drastically undercutting high-end competitors in a major market, namely CRM, the office suite, and so on. At 11 a.m.,

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Bringing in someone who is a complete opposite can sometimes put a barrier up from the start between both the employee and the office. Figure out the best qualities your current employees have and go from there. May 7, 2011 03:24:52 Reply 0 Flag this comment LarryN1 Follow A good profile for most if not all hires. startupcto

CTO Hire 73

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. All rights reserved.

Small Business 60

Small Business Marketing Social Media Software Review 60