Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. Research has confirmed that culture is a primary driver for financial performance, customer experience, and team productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the interests of helping you work smarter and last longer, I would like to offer my top ten list of key resource drains to avoid in early businesses and startups, based on my years of advising entrepreneurs and my own business experience: Expanding your product line too quickly for scaling. Use multiple small orders at first.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

Different ways of working are better suited to different industries and business sizes, so it’s crucial to consider these sorts of things before you begin hiring or go to market. Consider a Production-Ready SOM. Other advantages of production-ready SOMs include more CPU choices and a smaller footprint.

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SCRUM Software Review Technical Review Differentiation 147

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Then they are surprised to see productivity and creativity take a big dip. Hire employees who have strong skills, with the motivation to learn new ones.

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Hiring Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 250

Transformify

AUGUST 1, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Carlos, a lot has been said about diversity and inclusion but there is little to no guidance of building diverse teams post-mergers and acquisitions.

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Merger Acquisition Securities and Exchange Commission America 70

View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. Having The Right It is essential for the following reason: Most new products and innovations fail in the market.

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Product Technical Review Marketing Lean 120

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

There are many benefits of selling your startup through a mergers and acquisitions advisor. When selling your startup with a mergers and acquisitions advisor, it’s essential to identify the key employees who have made the most valuable contributions to the business. Hiring a Mergers and Acquisitions advisor.

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Merger Acquisition Due Diligence Valuation 131

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If they were a commercial company, they figured out product/market fit; or if a government organization, it focused on solution/mission fit. HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc.

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Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 315

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 23, 2023

Hire Only the Best Employee Fits Another major expense your lean startup will have to carefully manage is labor. It’s tempting to hire people based on experience, since experiences correlate with both knowledge and better performance. Instead, consider hiring based on talent. Choose your acquisitions carefully.

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Lean Technical Review Startup Acquisition 158

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The larger the company, the more they’ll separate out business development and sales, with business development focused primarily on lead generation and sales focused on sealing the actual sale of the product or service. You just have to go in and work through the mechanics of selling them on your product or service.

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Government Advisory Board Salary Sales Cycle 212

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. Research has confirmed that culture is a primary driver for financial performance, customer experience, and team productivity.

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Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Your human resource activities can be outsourced to: Independent HR consultants are professionals who can assist you with hiring, HR policies, and other decision-making. Finding and hiring new talent is one of the most important tasks for any HR department. Boosts Productivity. To Whom Can You Outsource HR Tasks?

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United States Salary UAE Hiring 137

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2019

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Then they are surprised to see productivity and creativity take a big dip. Hire employees who have strong skills, with the motivation to learn new ones.

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Employee Technical Review Hiring Lead Generation 222

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. You hire great people. You motivate, cajole, reassign tasks, hire, fire and push the organization forward. And then there’s product management. You set direction.

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CTO Hire Entrepreneur Technical Review Leadership 385

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. We’re thrilled to welcome Mike to our team.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

They want to snowball their customer acquisition, attracting thousands of new people to the brand, and reach diverse new audiences in new locations. And from there, you can achieve a modest rate of growth as long as you keep providing quality products and services. . You can hire more salespeople and practice social selling. .

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VC Cafe

MAY 17, 2023

billion acquisition by Google for Waze and $900M Moovit acquisition by Intel) Uri has also been involved in various startups, especially on the consumer front, as an angel investor. While the thrill of creating a new product or service can be intoxicating, it’s crucial to remember that the solution is not the ultimate objective.

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Founder Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 103

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

I previously touched upon the Passion/Product Fit of an aspiring entrepreneur. Product/Market Fit. The startup will then look outwards in the region to expand into, either organically or via a partnership, joint venture or acquisition. You are either a sales or product oriented startup company when you first start.

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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

Transformify

JUNE 29, 2021

Machine learning is one step further towards revolutionizing Talent Acquisition programs. Needless to say, '' bad hires' come at a cost and there is hardly any organization across the globe that has not been hurt by high headcount turnover / low productivity ratio. percent to 1.8 percent to 1.8 Very unlikely.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Software Review Acquisition 98

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

When it’s time to hire a VP of Sales, there are a few common attributes you’re probably quick to look for. You know, things like experience hitting revenue goals, knowledge about a product or industry and the ability to successfully lead a team of reps come to mind. Gain an Untapped Network.

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Sales North America Marketing Hiring 113

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2017

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Then they are surprised to see productivity and creativity take a big dip. Hire employees who have strong skills, with the motivation to learn new ones.

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Employee Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 173

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Then they are surprised to see productivity and creativity take a big dip. Hire employees who have strong skills, with the motivation to learn new ones.

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Startup Technical Review Employee Hiring 262

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

A lot of startups fail within the first few months due to some commonly acknowledged culprits – picking a bad time to scale, running out of operating capital, lack of a steady customer base, high customer acquisition cost, and low to nonexistent repeat business. Start thinking about how you’re going to sell your product.

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Sales Widget Sales Cycle Software Review 171

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Fast decisions leads to rapid action, which accelerates the loop of production and feedback, which is how you outpace and out-learn a competitor, even one that already has a lead. How do you know when your current decision should be made slowly: contemplative, collaborative, deliberate, data-driven, even agonizing?

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Engineer Framework Social Media Acquisition 264

Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity crisis, a startup with too much capital and no product-market fit will become capable of making larger mistakes. These lost startups land higher valuations, have larger teams, outsource more product development and spend more money on customer acquisition than their peers.

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Startup Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Review 78

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

They make money by starting a product from scratch and then selling it in thousands of dollars. In most cases, they hit the jackpot when their products are sold for millions. You don’t have a product and most of your meetings will not bring any fruit. You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product.

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Startup Technical Cofounder Merger Early Stage 113

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

From a customer standpoint, there are nuances that go into buying a product, and then using the product. However, particularly in the A-B series interim an independent third party can uncover product or market blind spots. Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers. Series A to C: Automation.

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Technical Cofounder Burn Rate Seed Stage Cofounder 113

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 haven’t followed this blog in the past, I’m a guy who launched several web startup/product ideas, acquired several more, had many failures and enough successes that I was able to shut down my consulting firm back in 2008.

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Acquisition Software Review Fresno Algorithm 63

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Plus, we agree that we should have this type of meeting and try to make it productive for all parties. I would e-mail Paul and Rony from Indeed regularly with feature ideas and get super frustrated that they implemented zero of them—especially in the face of stiff competition from Simply Hired. What’s Simply Hired, you ask?

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.Net Cap Table Startup Technical Review 88

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

New product process. A technical champion may drive a specific innovation, but the business leader has to own the result, in order to drive an appropriate business model, customer acquisition, support, and a growth strategy. Product life cycles keep getting shorter and shorter, which mandates accelerated innovation cycles.

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Intellectual Property Metrics .Net Social Network 343

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Then they are surprised to see productivity and creativity take a big dip. Hire employees who have strong skills, with the motivation to learn new ones.

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Employee Entrepreneur Technical Review Hiring 244

Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2021

If 5 years ago there were concerns regarding productivity, security, technology infrastructure and the list goes on, the last 2 years forced all businesses to find solutions instead of repeating the same excuses over and over again. Shall the new hire be classified as an employee or independent service provider?

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review Bankruptcy 59

View from Seed

APRIL 26, 2018

At the seed stage, hiring great people is one of the most important things to get right. Without the right team in place, it’s much harder to build great products, find customers, and not run out of money in the process. If you have to hire several people this year, you won’t want to miss this session.

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Hiring Seed Stage Portfolio Acquisition 120

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hire Strategically. Strategic hiring will be crucial for business growth in this and the upcoming year, especially for smaller businesses that might not be able to provide the benefits that larger businesses can. Research has shown that companies lost on average $14,900 on every bad hire. Invest in Leadership Training.

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