mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. Leadership Abilities Are A Must It’s natural to want a tech savvy and competent CTO. Jesse Davis , Entrustet. There is a difference. Experience with Startups!

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. Can you become a founder by watching videos? Can it be self-directed?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. questions and answers for non-programmers. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. I would bet (although I don't have the data) that for normal (non-hyper-addict) Facebook users, the time between logins is strongly correlated with the number of high-quality notifications they receive. So, in summary: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The reality is that you need to standardize many things in a company if you’re to scale quickly, which is why many founders depart at the time of the transition. But we created a patchwork of non-standard contracts that added to the overhead of managing a business as it scaled. To some extent this can be good and agile.

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Non-Compete Sales Hiring France 296

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network. There's lots of information about performance and metrics out there, as well as a peer expectation that being concerned about those things is an important part of being a competent engineer.

Software Review 87

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'm a bit late, and this one might be controversial to some, but long-duration non-competes hurt the development of startups by adding friction to the entrepreneurial economy. Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0 It would be good to spread understanding on this issue.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Sometimes non-programmers arent very good at anticipating where there might be problems, so it makes sense to give a very high-level overview of what you expect to happen after the first milestone, and the programmer will know if any follow-up is necessary. However, as the complexity grows, the pool of competent developers shrinks.

CTO Hire 84

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Mexican fast-food giant Chipotle has made serving non-GMO foods a key element of their brand promise. For example, Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, always used to say he sold hope, not makeup. The color of honesty, high quality, competence, trust, reliability, and integrity. Those customer groups differ from each other.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. Or the alternate model of letting third party currency resellers handle that (but then having to deal with competing in selling credits with those sites)? Appreciate your insights.

San Francisco 68

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 11, 2017

individuals, foundations, and corporations donate around $47 billion a year to non-profit organizations that focus on child welfare, food security, homelessness, and other areas that fall under the domain of "human services." Every year in the U.S., But is the relationship between philanthropy and democracy really so zero-sum?

America 28

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Basically, the lesson in this guys argument is entirely non-technical. Get a grip.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Finding other blogs writing “better&# content than you could write is easy too, so why not believe you have no chance to compete and never try in the first place. This happens because the barriers between one blog and another are non existent. No one can compete with that, so you always have a point of differentiation.

Non-Compete 107

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Usually there are different segments that are loyal for different, even competing, reasons. As a founder of a company, there is nothing more painful than to see your most loyal and devoted customers suffering. That is what company founders and staff do not get. " I couldn't agree more. We WORK, not just play, on IMVU.

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