Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. This was followed by another $500 million investment (along with Goldman Sachs) in 2011, at a $50 billion valuation. billion at the end of the first day (on $58.9

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

They may know key reporters, but not know executives you would want to hire. This approach has already lead to some stunning results: In 2011, we hosted over 600 portfolio presentations to corporate customers and partners at our office in Menlo Park. They may know customers, but not have deep relationships with key reporters.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

Additionally, closing a business the ‘right way’ ensures the network, reputation, goodwill and momentum you’ve built with the first company can be gracefully transitioned to future projects. Your credit and reputation are at stake. Tablet Visitors Spent 54% More Than Smartphone Visitors in 2011. Jobs by Simply Hired.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

who passed away from cancer in October 2011, was a jerk. Although Jobs will forever be cursed with his reputation for being a tyrant, over time he learned to trust the input of other innovators in his industry. Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of a little company called Apple Inc.,

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Sure, it garners the "winning " reply above, but in reality I find the answers below by Cody Riddar that directs the asker to go hire an inexpensive prototype development team much more helpful than the "leading answer" that gives the "Quora rockstar engineer" point of view. did the question!

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

One project was delayed and the quality of code has been questioned (and my reputation) and on the other project we didn’t get the traction we hoped (it should have worked, the model had been proven but the execution lacked attention to details). Flickr Search Copyright © 2011. Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Must build and promote your reputation / expertise. Flow is a function of reputation and share of mind in target market.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. He shut down his company gracefully and even thought it must have felt like a crap sandwich doing so I’ll bet his reputation is still solid with his backers. You hire them, you own them now. Hire fast, fire faster. I didn’t sleep much back then.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Our approach was deliberate, and we want to share it with you, in the hopes that you can replicate it for other conferences and for processes like hiring where equity is important. Related to the issue above, it’s just plain easier to put people onstage when you know them personally or by reputation. Getting beyond the easy wins.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Early employees are paid a salary from day 1, don't have to have the reputation/connections to raise money, take on much less risk, and often have much more information about the company (team so far, financials, product traction/progress) when they decide to join than the founders do when they found the company.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded).

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. Hiring the best developers is essential because a great developer is easily 3 times as productive as an average developer, yet their salaries are usually similar. This time, I decided to handle the process myself.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Monitor Social Media Reputation. The Twitter spreedsheet stops at the 7th of Feb… and on the Reputation management a lot of the twitter boxes say “cannot read propery “url count” from undefined… confused… February 14, 2012 15:11:23. March 13th - 14th, 2011. Jobs by Simply Hired.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

My idea was that during market downturns, people need to invest in marketing and reputation management because that’s when marketing matters most. Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

find/hire freelancers. hire low-cost international engineering talent. VWorker -Â find/hire freelancers. UCL has built a reputation as a pioneer of collaboration between industry and academia. Crunchies 2011. Outlook plugin to search. Freelance Help. Amazon Mechanical Turk â?? set up any task and get answers.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

  Yet we outperform the companies that hire those same folks. Entrepreneurs are risk-takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or their reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.   Yet we outperform the companies that hire those same folks. November 2011. September 2011.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 8, 2016

Technically, I opened Tone in June of 2011. After teaching in NYC at SO many different schools, I realized that in 2011 I had enough of a reputation and following that it would make more sense to start a community of parents and teachers who could share in my vision. How did it all begin?

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 8, 2016

Technically, I opened Tone in June of 2011. After teaching in NYC at SO many different schools, I realized that in 2011 I had enough of a reputation and following that it would make more sense to start a community of parents and teachers who could share in my vision. How did it all begin?

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. He shut down his company gracefully and even thought it must have felt like a crap sandwich doing so I’ll bet his reputation is still solid with his backers. He has staked his reputation on a project to use the software of some shitty 2-year-old startup company because he believes!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 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! Free advice, particularly online, has a way of paying off in terms of building your reputation as an expert.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

I love that I have the freedom of doing what I love, hiring who I enjoy spending time with, and working on problems that help people. I’ve worked hard to build a reputation of expertise that allows me to speak to other entrepreneurs and give them actionable advice. It feels good being heard and valued for it!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 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.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

February 15, 2011. I hired a lawyer, and he gave us an NDA template and told us that anyone that had knowledge of our proprietary data had to sign it. Keeping your secret from investors that havent signed an NDA is already foolish, because they stake their reputation on the matter. Check out my newest company. humbledMBA.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 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.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Her commitment towards the small business community have honored her with the 2011 United Nations NGO Positive Peace Award and a mess of other awards that especially advocate for women businesses. She serves as one of the national board of directors for the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). Peg Fitzpatrick.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 2, 2016

Bianca moved out to the Bay Area after graduation and started to build both a career and reputation out here for being smart, hungry and open. Hunter Walk: What would “Bianca of 2011” be most surprised about “Bianca of 2016?” We met via Twitter several years ago when she was studying at Howard University.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

As an example, eBay’s 2011 marketplace revenues were approximately $6.6B We were quite enamored with their marketplace for skilled global talent, and were amazed at how the tools in their online workplace allowed customers to hire, manage, and pay for work from distributed teams. against GMS of approximately $68.6B

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

The journey for me has been … I wrote my first book solo back in 2011 around content marketing, it was called Accelerate, and found that to be … Just so everybody who has ever written a book totally understands, it was ten times harder and took three times longer than anyone even tried to warm ne it would take. Arnie Kuenn: Yeah.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Were hiring. He talks about the power of Graham’s reputation, and describes that time as “a moment” – one of those opportunities that come out of nowhere and you just have to take. The team left Amazon after a few years to found CupidsPlay, a social gaming site that launched early 2011 which has since been acquired by Zynga.

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