Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

To compare the two, in 2011 U.S. By comparison, in 2011 Chinese VC’s invested $13 billion in all deals. The number of deals in Technology, Media and Telecommunications more than doubled in 2011 over the previous five years and slowed back down dramatically in 2012. China now has plenty of both. venture capitalists invested $26.5

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. it is acquired) and (b) the employee is terminated without cause (or sometimes resigns for good reason). Posted by: Quyen Kiet | 01/17/2011 at 05:49 PM. Recent Posts.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Twitter Now Has 300 Employees Cloudera Secures $25M in Funding PayPal Announces Micropayment System. Office for Mac 2011 Delivers the Good.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. Full-Time Employees, Freelancers (directly) or Contracts (through staffing companies) – This approach allows your company to maintain total control as it manages the fine details of the project.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Twitter Now Has 300 Employees Cloudera Secures $25M in Funding PayPal Announces Micropayment System. Office for Mac 2011 Delivers the Good. The New MySpace: Screenshots and Videos Google Donates $5 Million for Innovat. 10,000 Websites Integrate with Facebo. View More » Business HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small B.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Sometimes all our indicators are positive, but the employee just doesnt work out. On the other side of the coin, sometimes we miss out on a great employee because our indicators steered us away. But the person Mary chose turned out to be one of the best employees weve ever had. We look at past experience. We call references.

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Diego Basch

JULY 1, 2014

Note: this is a post from 2011. They had just announced that they would be releasing their source code to the public, which was very intriguing to me. Maybe they had four thousand employees at the time. I have to prove to this person that it’s worth choosing our company over others. I had been a big fan of Netscape until then.

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Silicon Valley Coder Vesting Open Source 73

blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Max Shapiro s People Connect Staffing has an innovative program called Employees Without Paychecks. Or Gimp, or the 1000s of other open source projects, built for free by software engineers. Perhaps are looking in the wrong field, since you have never even heard of open source development before? Finding Employees.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

When we arrived in Fiji in August 2011 to present our partnership proposal to the Chiefly family of Vorovoro, we presented a traditional gift of kava roots to the chief, exchanged stories with our friends, and celebrated into the night. What are some industry specific challenges you faced?

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Fiji Small Business Mali Advisory Board 85

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Benjamin Kuker May 17, 2011 Tweet I have a feeling I might step on a few toes with this article, but finding a technical cofounder for an online business idea is a topic that I’ve seen come up often across a number of business community websites. Copyright 2011 Virtuosi Media Inc. Business Tools. Return To Top. |. startupcto

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

January 11th, 2011 the Chubby Team 34 Comments. I ended up getting rejected by FriendFeed, and then told the other companies that I wasn’t quite ready to go back into the employee world and needed a few months to figure out what I really wanted to do next. broadstuff says: January 11, 2011 at. Investors Companies.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. Managing employees and tasks remotely can be a recipe for disaster when you’re building a nascent operation.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 31, 2008

If Jed’s numbers are right, 37signals is a cash machine (with only 12 employees and annual costs of $2 million before taxes and $6 million of EBITDA). In terms of how, it’s clear that Microsoft’s 90,000 employees aren’t going to be the source. 37signals also has a great business model. … [.]

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Ruby Offshore Framework Venture Capital 47

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. In fact, I encourage everyone — even my own employees — to target a business passion that will make them happy and wealthy. Should we go for it?

Startup 79

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. March 25, 2011 at 12:58 pm. March 25, 2011 at 12:59 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:04 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:12 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

As the questions came in, I realized that my 2010 list was great for what I had learned as of 2 years ago, but it also was in desperate need of an update to include what I’ve learned more recently, especially as we’ve pivoted from fabulis to Fab in 2011 and then scaled Fab to more than 7.5 So, here goes. Don’t work with people you don’t love.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

by Tristan on January 20, 2011. Some have been as co-founder, most have been as a consultant with the possibility of becoming an paid employee, “as soon as we close our funding round.” Kevin Carroll says: January 20, 2011 at 9:55 am. Tristan says: January 24, 2011 at 10:20 pm. . • ABOUT. • CONTACT.

Sweat Equity 41

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

28 percent said colleges did only a “fair job” of producing successful employees. Want to find ten potential employees who have amassed at least three certificates related to brand management and have at least five positive endorsements from their instructors? A 21 century diploma should allow you to do that.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Coinbase Ventures (founded 2012) – the crypto wallet and one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges launched Coinbase Ventures in 2018 to invest in startups building the ‘open financial system’ According to recent reports , Coinbase ventures has already made 50 investments, only 12 of them in tokens.

Balance Sheet 201

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

The two most recent algorithm changes are: Panda : Officially rolled out in February 2011, but there have been about 13 data refreshes of it since then. Carnegie Mellon Has a Robot Employee. Open Source Lists. Now on Panda 3.7, 56,235 followers. 14,396 followers. 140 followers. Top From Our Partners. Like Tweet.

Algorithm 93

Algorithm Technical Review San Francisco SEO 93

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. Duncan Connor • Jan 4, 2011 I was about to provide an answer, but then read this response and realized Saul had already provided an even better response than I would have done. Saul’s answer was excellent.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. The largest tech employer, according to SFBT, is Salesforce.com with 4,000 employees as of January 2014 (an increase of a thousand from one year earlier).

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San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

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