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Breaking The VC Business Model For Next-Gen Investors

YoungUpstarts

My personal policy is to get the idea going, make it sustainable, hire passionate and experienced managers to take my place, then move on to the next challenge. Five Mill has managed over $100 million in online marketing spend and over $3 million monthly.

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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

On the California coast where I live, we see lifestyle entrepreneurs like surfers and divers who own small surf or dive shop or teach surfing and diving lessons to pay the bills so they can surf and dive some more. They hire local employees or family. They hire the best and the brightest. Most are barely profitable.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team. CEO 5 - 10.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

ConversionXL

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

On the matter of founders, we agreed that having a sole founder (and then hiring the really smart people) creates a more stable environment than a 50/50 partnership. 2) People/companies who are solving the merchant problem of managing the influx of location-based services, increasing sales and repeat business.

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The Pros and Cons of IT Outsourcing: Globally, Nationally and Locally

ReadWriteStart

When most people think of outsourcing, they envision coders in Southeast Asia working into the wee hours of (our) night. Managing people thousands of miles away is difficult at best, so when calculating costs, consider that you may need to pay someone to oversee your overseas contractors. Outsourcing Locally.