Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. Over time as these organizations got large, they built process. In government agencies process versus product has gone further.

Government 315

Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 315

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it.

Operations 286

Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Ultimate Guide to Customer Acquisition | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. Why entrepreneurs struggle with MBA hires – [link]. What is 500 startups business model?

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting. This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting.

Canada 153

Canada Acquisition Vertical Hiring 153

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Today in Small Business: Hiring Picks Up | by @genemarks – crowdspring.co/1w5hoSn. The Four Key Trends of the Startup Acquisition Market | by @ttunguz – crowdspring.co/1w8sgz2.

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Your Startup Shouldn’t Hire a Marketer from Microsoft – [link]. An entrepreneur tells us how he screwed up his Google acquisition – [link].

Social Media 97

Social Media Small Business Design Media 97

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

By Marina Djordjevic, Director of Talent Acquisition at Idean. If you’re the hiring manager for your company, here are five tips that can help you find the right people — and do your job more successfully: 1. Keep in mind that you’re hiring coworkers and acting as company spokesperson.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Silicon Valley Los Angeles New York City 100

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Considering the enormous costs of hiring, training, and maintaining an entire department, staff augmentation may be the solution. Talent acquisition and retention are not difficult, but they are expensive. Problems with coding, cybersecurity, testing, or other design defects will be resolved cleanly, securely, and swiftly.

Software Review 129

Software Review Technical Review Retention Acquisition 129

Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

These lost startups land higher valuations, have larger teams, outsource more product development and spend more money on customer acquisition than their peers. Hire the wrong people. Bad hiring decisions are often a symptom of premature scaling. Bad hiring decisions are often a symptom of premature scaling.

Startup 78

Startup Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Review 78

Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

This acquisition is a long story, but if you have a few minutes let me tell you the best parts. If you’re interested you can read about one of my acquisitions from a few years back in a post titled The Inside Story of a Small Software Acquisition. My Background. The site was once great; marketed by a high-end NYC PR firm.

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Acquisition Software Review Fresno Algorithm 63

View from Seed

JUNE 5, 2018

Last week, we hosted our very first portfolio-only Hiring Bootcamp in NYC, led by NextView’s talent advisor Kristen Caldwell. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages.

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Hiring Portfolio Metrics B2C 120

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Hiring and expanding a team is always an invigorating experience. But with that said, how do you hire? Many people think hiring is an easy thing. But when you start reading and really getting into the matter of hiring and recruiting, you begin to see that it’s not all that simple. The post Hiring For The First Time?

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Hiring Email Employee Design 214

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Because I am true to the hiring practices I preach, I wanted a strong exec who would “ punch above their weightclass ” by taking a job they hadn’t yet done but would hugely aspire to and thus work harder to out perform. RedBeacon went on to sell to HomeDepot in what was considered a very successful acquisition on all sides.

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Southern California San Francisco CTO Hire SEM 359

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion acquisition of Weta Digital, Peter Jackson’s VFX company, gives Unity capabilities in creating hyper realistic virtual environments using RT3D (real-time 3D) technology. Microsoft has recently spent $70 billion in cash to acquire Activision Blizzard, the most expensive gaming acquisition of all time. Also, their $1.6

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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers. All startups find themselves struggle with hiring to meet growing demand, leaving most startups scrambling to onboard hires. When startups make new hires, it’s not uncommon to then promote the longest-tenured engineer, tasking them with onboarding staff. At Women 2.0

Technical Cofounder 113

Technical Cofounder Burn Rate Seed Stage Cofounder 113

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting. This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting.

Canada 67

Canada Acquisition Vertical Hiring 67

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

This is final installment of a 3-part series covering my acquisition of HitTail. Could you talk a bit about the diligence you did during the acquisition? Due diligence is the most important part of the process because it dictates whether you should move forward with the acquisition, and at what price. Photo by psiaki.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review NDA 53

Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2021

Hologram , a global cellular platform for IoT, announced it hired Mike Georgoff this month as its first Chief Product Officer as the organization continues its growth. Georgoff has more than 15 years of experience as a growth-stage executive focused on strategy, product and design.

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Hiring Product United States Startup 104

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Telehealth’s flexibility combined with the companionship of one’s smartphone allow for ample design flexibility around care models. Depending on the business model, some hire providers as full-time W2 workers and some assemble a network of part-time providers with disperse distribution of available hours.

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Vertical Software Review Portfolio Demand 156

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

He’s also the CEO of Blumer CPAs where they serve as an advisory firm for the design marketing and creative agency services niches. Key Takeaway: Jason Blumer is the CEO of Blumer CPAs which is an advisory firm for design, marketing, and creative agency services. I'm gonna go hire 'em now they know. Here's what happened.

CPA 73

CPA Technical Review Revenue Forecast 73

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Because Bird was first to market, extremely innovative, quick to hire talented leadership and an experienced founder it was able to raise $125 million in an extraordinarily short period of time. But it is even more rare for a company to do that while also scaling its revenue at such an impressive clip and with no paid customer acquisition.

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San Francisco Valuation Technical Review Los Angeles 256

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

For example, I suggest it doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a full-time team member who’s an SEO consultant. You might hire a really amazing designer, and perhaps even charge companies for their service for cost recovery purposes. John Maeda, formerly Design Partner, KPCB; formerly President of Rhode Island School of Design.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With over a decade of experience in his toolkit, he specializes in helping clients build out cross-channel acquisition systems using a mix of owned, earned and paid tactics. 07:17] What is you cross-channel acquisition strategy? [11:13] Do you have kind of a a thought on, you know, the cross channel acquisition?

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Channel Acquisition Framework B2B 65

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Just ask Blue Apron, which has found itself in the news recently for its poor stock market performance and its widely criticized acquisition-focused growth strategy — not to mention CEO Brad Dickerson’s unwillingness to release its retention numbers. Blue Apron is hardly alone with its churn problem.

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Customer Technical Review Retention Acquisition 173

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Max Ventilla took Aardvark from startup to Google acquisition, a case study Eric described in The Lean Startup. Cory Nelson will talk with Eric about how GE has applied the MVP method to its development of very large diesel engines. Now Max is reinventing education through AltSchool , which creates local microschools.

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Lean Fractional CTO Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 165

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2017

by Scott Wintrip, author of “ High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant “ There’s a shortage of skilled workers across all industries in the country. Rather, they have rejected the old ideas of hiring that continue to slow down many organizations today.

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Hiring Acquisition Global Employee 133

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. So your Q1 results will be $180,000 less profitable than if you hadn’t hired them. Hiring more people isn’t always the right answer.

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Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sometimes that’s product design so thrilling that every customer spreads the word to five more. Instead, watch payback period for acquisition efficiency, watch retention for product/market fit, watch expansion revenue for long-term growth, and watch gross margin for long-term profitability. Sometimes that’s airtight product/market it.

Restful 202

Restful Founder Revenue Acquisition 202

Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2019

Hiring the right team for digital marketing. Let’s imagine that you hire a marketer to help generate more leads, but you veer too niche by hiring a social media specialist. Let’s imagine that you hire a marketer to help generate more leads, but you veer too niche by hiring a social media specialist.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media SEO Entrepreneur 109

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

So rather than hiring a VP Marketing [to establish a strategic marketing plan, build and manage the marketing team, manage outside vendors, etc.] I recommend hiring or appointing a growth hacker.” It’s why some companies are testing whether building applications on KIK might lead to better customers acquisition.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review Hockey Stick SEM Channel 384

ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Call it whatever you like, but when businesses are hiring for any of those titles they simply want somebody who can generate lots of quality leads for as little cash as possible.”. A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well. When you’re starting a growth team, who do you hire first?

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Analytics Engineer SEO Channel 99

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Design your playbooks so they’re easy to skim, and at all costs, avoid density in the writing and formatting. Think about your playbook from the perspective of a new hire. Focus on design and copy rules. Skim-reading is an incredibly efficient way to absorb relevant information. Lay out the key challenges and expected results.

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Campaign CTO Marketing Social Media 149

Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

A buyer persona is a fictional or imaginary character that represents a business’s potential customers, based on what you know about customer’s behaviors, and customer acquisition. But after figuring out the budget and scale of the business, owners might need to consider the option of hiring professional web developers.

Social Media 97

Social Media Marketing Analytics Web Development 97

VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Spotify a cquired LA-based live audio app Locker Room and is reportedly on a hiring spree to launch their own social audio experience. It’s basically an open-source messaging platform like Whatsapp, designed for communities. Element – a Matrix-based end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) secure collaboration and messaging app.

Audio 139

Audio Software Review Open Source Social Network 139

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. The culture in a startup is also about moving fast, making informed guesses, learning when things go wrong (which they often will), and iterating and reiterating the design of the product or service until you get it right. Risk and reward.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It’s a great tool for companies to introduce a new brand and test product-market-fit in an early, low-risk environment; cultivate a group of early adopters who become product evangelists and provide crucial feedback and support; get early customer feedback on product concept and design and build brand equity for a product.

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Campaign San Francisco Technical Review Flash 145