Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ? he promised me he’d drop Corp Dev knowledge), who along with Aditi Maliwal (runs our FinTech practice) will be based in San Francisco. Seksom Suriyapa ?—?he

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Perhaps they’ll be able to hire someone especially skilled in the marketing skills needed to find this positioning. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Transitioning from founder sold bootstrapped revenue to a functioning sales team is certainly possible. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. I would love to attend one of the Lean Start-up Workshops, but unfortunately that would be difficult for me to do so financially. Cash is tight. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

As you grow, think about the right timing for bringing on more people with specific roles, but remember – hire slow, fire fast. As Tony Hsieh of Zappos pointed out during his DCWEEK visit, bad hires have accounted for millions of lost dollars through the years. So if you do find your duplicate, hire them as soon as possible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. But when we talk about “lean,” we’re referring to the processes a company can use, when developing a new product or service, to learn quickly about the questions it has.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Read on to find out. Read on to find out. Bring your questions.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Pitch Night in San Francisco. What key hires do you need? Last week, I attended the Annual Women 2.0 I don’t make it out to SF much, but for special occasions I will. The crowd turnout was pretty good and the event was well organized with plenty of food and drinks. Always ask investors why they say no.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Those general managers are entrepreneurs , too. Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Those general managers are entrepreneurs , too. Bring your questions.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

Tip: If you want to go into a market where you are unsure, bootstrap to get a sense of whether there’s a massive opportunity. Eventbrite is hiring, contact Kevin@Eventbrite.com. Kevin lives in San Francisco with his wife, Julia, and young daughter. For Eventbrite, addressing longtail market was a leap of faith.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 17, 2012

When the six-month program ended, they returned to San Francisco. If we'd had to bootstrap it, I don't know if we could have done it," Davis says. Future employers look at you and say, 'I don't want to hire this person.' They raised $1.6 The $40,000 made it a lot easier for us to get started.".

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Pitch Night in San Francisco. What key hires do you need? Last week, I attended the Annual Women 2.0 I don’t make it out to SF much, but for special occasions I will. The crowd turnout was pretty good and the event was well organized with plenty of food and drinks. Always ask investors why they say no.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture. People would only get paid if the candidates got hired.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. I crawled my way back and have largely been able to bootstrap the business.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). If you’re bootstrapping, you don’t need to worry about either of these options. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. Without funding most tech startups will die.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Each half-day session would be held in downtown San Francisco in the late afternoon; dinner is included. I continue to work on additional programs and products for bootstrapped and angel-backed startups, as well as for enterprise and future entrepreneurs. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Although Box was launched from a dorm room by two 19 year olds, in 2010 the company hired Dan Levin, an experienced Silicon Valley entrepreneur to strengthen its foundations in order to expand. 20 guys in a room is a very different problem than Box today at 600 people hiring ten people a week.”. Strength in experience. Rapid expansion.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

And don’t pitch a Boston newspaper on your San Francisco startup. Although bootstrapping your startup is difficult, that in and of itself is not unique. You have a new hire (if they’re not the CEO or CTO, reporters probably won’t care). Don’t pitch the real estate reporter on an app that has nothing to with housing.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. Thats the time for a CTO."

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I hired another guide to help with the load, and I started charging for tickets to pay the guide. We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack !

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? “There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Transcript Automated transcription services provided by: Dan Bowen: My name is Dan Bowen, and I’m up in the wine country in Healdsburg, California north of San Francisco, and the company name is SyncBloc, S-Y-N-C-B-L-O-C. I bootstrapped it on my own. Then we hired two people and got profitable again in another six months.

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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. I thought I had to raise funding to compete with them, so I pitched to 26 companies here on Sand Hill Road in San Francisco and even Boston and New York.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

I was that hired gun in some senses. It had been bootstrap the whole way, and so we were still wanting to raise some capital partly to infuse more cash in the business, because we knew the business was going to continue to grow at a very fast pace. Does that make sense? John Jantsch: Yeah, absolutely.

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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. I thought I had to raise funding to compete with them, so I pitched to 26 companies here on Sand Hill Road in San Francisco and even Boston and New York.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. If you’re in Sacramento, go to the Sacramento Ruby Meetup and go to the San Francisco Ruby Meetup as well. You don’t have to hire a consultant (though that’s an option). You have two avenues open to you.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

A mutual friend connected me in San Francisco with Ori in New York. We were bootstrapping the company’s funding, so we could not afford to hire a firm to help us come up with a company name. He hired my new firm to get more media attention. In the summer of 2013, we decided to found Sindeo.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

And so an extra special thank you on behalf of all of us in the city of San Francisco for what you're doing. So, the numbers in San Francisco are very different than what we're seeing in other parts of the country. Have we flattened the curve here in San Francisco? Not only in San Francisco, but nationwide.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

My wife and our one-year-old Vizsla dog, Neo, are holed up in Dolores Heights in San Francisco. We've since hired one additional person, so now seven. What's your quarantine setup like? Hannu Rajaniemi : I feel very lucky and grateful, Eric. We have a garden so we have sunlight and access to the outdoors.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 2, 2018

It’s track that I hired one of our best-ever team members at Bazaarvoice out of: Jacob Salamon. I was lucky to have Auren as a neighbor when he was the founder and CEO of BridgePath and his office was right next door to mine at Coremetrics when Debra and I lived in San Francisco (Auren still lives there and has greatly prospered).

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

but most are coalescing around the Palo Alto – San Mateo – San Francisco center of the universe. And then the other thing is companies are having — if you talk to anybody running a company, they are having real trouble hiring enough qualified people. Some of these next big startups are in L.A.,

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