Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

An irreversible decision is firing an employee, launching your product, a five-year lease for an expensive new building, etc. An example of a reversible decision could be adding a product feature, a new algorithm in the code, targeting a specific set of customers, etc. These are usually difficult or impossible to reverse.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

2) You’re hiring employees. Many federal and state laws govern the employer-employee relationship and impose numerous obligations on the employer. Hiring employees through your company, rather than directly, helps limit your personal liability if something goes wrong in the employment relationship. All tags: Forex Brokers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

On RRL, you probably would love to visit the Harvard Archives and have them pull out some material for you. The archives are amazing when you get a box full of correspondence on (real!) Shelton | Blog » Blog Archive » Links: April 29th , on April 29, 2009 at 12:02 am Said: [.] Reply Benjamin A.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Department Mission Statements – What am I Supposed to Do Today It wasn’t that we somehow had inherited dumb employees. The idea of intention is that if employees understand the thinking behind the mission, they can work collaboratively to achieve it. Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. Show me a tag cloud of the topics my predecessor was spending his time on. AIs might even ask outgoing employees to review and annotate the key documents that should be passed on to their successors. When is our next status meeting?”

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blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archive Jun 20th Sun In-House or Outsource? Communication - Hiring a technical employee early on can sometimes result in a founder developer gap. In the case of the latter, this keeps your staff and employee commitments down. Tags: startupcto. A Part-Time CTO Technology. In Plain English.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They tend to know where to find good help in terms of employees and consultants. Subscribe to this blogs feed Archives February 2010 January 2010 Categories Community People. Tags: startupcto. They tend to have the programming background to lead competent people by example and dig in and prove it where necessary.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. Instead, recruiters (or your employees through the referral program) will have to identify them, contact them, build a relationship, and eventually convince them to apply through direct sourcing. tags: hiring. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Intelligence.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. Other things that kill companies (which are kind of like a marriage) Not the right chemistry Bad culture or losing company culture Employees need some sense of allegiance. Tags: startupcto. The Idea People should keep a journal of ideas. I highly recommend this!

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

If your don’t have enough employees on the payroll, hire relatives, friends, or part-timers and train them. Where can I read about the training to give for employees who will be at a booth? You’ll never have to do it again.) Everyone should understand your goals, your messages, your demos and your theme and know their role.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? You should keep your employees as 1099s as long as possible (there are state and federal guidelines on this that your accountant will help you comply with). He basically outsources everything. Sure Payroll is a good service.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Many of the other staff in the applied program were full-time employees hired to work solely on these military programs. tags: startup history) [.] It moved its electronics research group from Burbank to the new Stanford Industrial Park and built its manufacturing facility in Sunnyvale.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

I’m curious, how many employees did SuperMac have at that time and what was your approach to educating the company? Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? via SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical Execution — the Potrero Benchmarks « St… [.]

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Geek of the Week Archive. QThru lands $3.5M to help you sail through the supermarket. Supermarkets are increasingly adopting self checkout terminals. But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Are you Tableau?

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 23, 2012

LinkedIn employees get a 24-hour gym. Every other company must now give up 10% to their first key employees.". Potential employees, at least the good ones, arent interested. The industry clings to its old rules: VCs get about 30% of equity, founders get 60% and the entire employee pool gets maybe 10%. and tagged with.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2009

Corner Cases and Consensus are For Large Companies Carefully considering each and every possible outcome before you proceed with a decision is something large companies with large revenues, shareholders and employees need to do. tags: startup productivity) [.] Yep, that’s what I meant. Dangerous stuff, to be sure!

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Serendip has been in private alpha since August 2011 and according to a Twapper Keeper Hashtag archive I set up one and a half days ago roughly 1400 listeners tweeted 500 unique URLs with the hash tag #Airing. According to LinkedIn the company was founded in late 2010 and has five employees, including the two co-founders.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

And when you do delegate responsibility I tend to favor the “Trust but Verify&# model- telling new employees, “I’m going to be looking over your shoulder for the first 90 days. In the perfect world this happens when the founder(s) actually close the first few (3-3000 depending on market) paying customers themselves.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Another benefit of talking freely, is that you may also find potential partners or future employees–other key components beyond investment money. link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] link] Stan James. link] Twitted by diego_s. [.]

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

which grew from two main employees. Tags: startupcto. Remember coders also know a lot of coders. so if this person cannot do one project you require, they can most likely put you onto another who can. Right now I’d have over 30 coders on my Instant messengers. I was asked this question in a PM. Peter Drew Xrt Services Pty Ltd.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Now, for the first time, enterprises are able to integrate and leverage the public social networks where employees, customers and partners congregate. This fear has led 54% of companies to block access entirely, leaving employees without access to important social sites and their employers shut out from a proven business channel.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

Therefore the best way to keep your company alive is to instill in every employee a decisive mindset that can quickly separate the crucial from the irrelevant, synthesize the output, and use this intelligence to create islands of order in the all-out chaos of a startup. It may not be for you.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. The biggest value I can probably offer you is that I would talk about what youre working on. And that shouldnt require a contract at all. legal , nda , startups , trust. Embed: 13 Comments.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. Sergey Brin once said, “Instead of having our employees in large buildings, we could have several thousand houses each with a garage – there’s nothing stopping us from doing that.” carry on reading.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Whether youre a US citizen or an immigrant, entrepreneur or investor, founder or employee, theres something you can do. Or, if youd prefer to do it by video, you can upload to YouTube - just use the "startup visa" tag. Or, if youd prefer to do it by video, you can upload to YouTube - just use the "startup visa" tag.

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www.readwriteweb.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Operations staying in Netflix data centers include "most internal IT that scales with employee count, legacy stuff, DVD shipping systems. Click a topic in the tag cloud to focus on it. Tags: startupcto. account sign-up and billing systems," Cockcroft said. Intel VMware vSphere vCloud Xeon Virtualization Cloud Computing.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 2, 2009

Hopefully this week I will find my first two employees. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Earlier during the year, I read a book called “ Four hour work week ” from Tim Ferriss where I first learned about the concept of personal virtual assistant. What’s next?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

When your employees see that it’s “an anything goes” culture you’ll find unethical behavior occurring that you will regret. But besides being morally wrong, in the end they come back to bite you big time. Think about the baseball Steroid scandal, Tour de France doping scandal, housing bubble, etc.) Do the right thing. It pays off in the end.

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Case Study Financial Institution Sees Virtualization as a Gateway Towards Superior Service Gateway Bancorps bank tellers, loan officers, and other employees rely on a series of financial software applications behind the scenes to better serve customers. Click a topic in the tag cloud to focus on it.

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Altgate

JANUARY 7, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship and tagged entrepreneur , layoff , survival , unemployed. Having learned how to survive while building a business over the last 12 years, and getting by on less money than I would like, it is just not that alarming. It’s a good point. Bookmark the permalink.

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Altgate

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The new site is interactive and allows you filter and sort the results of the survey to get valuable cuts on the data (like show me founder CTO compensation in California for Series B, software companies with 40 employees and <$5 million in revenue. Professor Noam Wasserman , J. It’s a long running project and is worth checking out.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Customer Development is Not a Focus Group « Steve Blank (tags: entrepreneurship startups) [.] If expressed well they become the motivation that helps employees align their ideas and goals with the organizations reason for being or the customers reason for using the product or service. I’m a designer.

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Altgate

AUGUST 16, 2010

For example, in hiring an young employee you have no trusted third party indicators of capability…I can say with reasonable confidence that a young computer science graduate from MIT could be a talented programmer but how to assess the skills of a young candidate for a sales position? Bookmark the permalink. A “Rich-vs.-King&#

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Altgate

DECEMBER 18, 2008

But non-management employees and founders will be thrown table scraps and crushed down. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups , Venture Capital and tagged deal terms , founder economics , liquidation preference , venture capital. You could probably find some pawn shops that offer cash more cheaply. Bookmark the permalink.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You wont need a site license to cover your entire team, but plan on supplementing Google Apps with copies of Office for key marketing and executive employees, as well as anyone who spends a lot of time working offline. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

These employees said Mr. Madoff kept the financial statements from the firm under lock and key and was “cryptic&# about the firm’s investment advisory business, according to the complaint.&# Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs and tagged corruption , fraud , white collar crime. Bookmark the permalink.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Right now, my business is just myself and a part-time employee who does support, testing, and product usability design. Jason Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … Join the nextNY mailing list, and check out our archives where this has been beaten to death over and over. The gist: 1.

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