Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Larry was loathe to sell any of the company stock; he generally took a dim view of VCs and preferred to bootstrap. Hired the Smartest People. The old adage “A players hire A players, and B players hire C players ” applies here. Hire the smartest people. There we were, right under their noses!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

It was a challenge to convince companies to think past the traditional method of hiring consultants or researchers to test user experience: At first I tried to call business and enterprises. We bootstrapped it. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. — Finding early customers for Qualtrics was difficult, Ryan says.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

It was a challenge to convince companies to think past the traditional method of hiring consultants or researchers to test user experience: At first I tried to call business and enterprises. We bootstrapped it. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. — Finding early customers for Qualtrics was difficult, Ryan says.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We found we needed to hire expert starters—people who knew how to bootstrap, build MVPs, find a free or very low-cost way of testing a hypothesis, pitch, pivot, etc. We had to design a whole new hiring process, compensation model, operating model, co-working spaces, etc. to find, attract and retain “starters.”.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Then she went to work on the technology: I hired some contract engineers who used to work on the Life Alert product to build us a really dinky prototype that you could plug into the wall. As soon as I would say, “We’re bootstrapped,” I would see their eyes go over my shoulder and look for someone more valuable to talk to.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Then she went to work on the technology: I hired some contract engineers who used to work on the Life Alert product to build us a really dinky prototype that you could plug into the wall. As soon as I would say, “We’re bootstrapped,” I would see their eyes go over my shoulder and look for someone more valuable to talk to.

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