Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area over twenty years ago. There are many services for which California is a good starting point (e.g. However, labor in California is particularly expensive. Back then I could think of no other place to be; it was the kitchen of the internet. Obviously in hindsight it was a good call.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. When we first moved to San Francisco, they helped us find office space, introduced us to investors and worked with us on architecting a successful Series A.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Continuous innovation was here to stay and only founders – not hired execs – could play and win.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

California retains its rank as one of the most desirable states to live in, despite untenable property prices, high taxes, and a cornucopia of social issues. California homeowners are selling up and moving East, to neighboring states. California’s loss is Nevada and Arizona’s gain. In San Francisco, that figure is $1.4

San Francisco 101

San Francisco Oakland Developer California 101

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California! million and opened another office in San Francisco. Management should communicate how the board can help - strategy, markets, key hires, introductions. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. Two Jobs at Once When I was hired at Zilog part of the deal was that I could consult for the first six months for my last employer, ESL.

Silicon Valley 175

Silicon Valley Chad RSS San Francisco 175

techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, California.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Previously, he was a staff technology writer at Adweek, worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and was also a reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, California.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2013

The new hire process, particularly at the executive level, is a significant decision and can be quite involved. While there are a number of factors in play which combine to impact the recruiting and hiring process, there is one constant that drives the process of the search – the CEO always sets the tone. Sell the Dream.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

In ten years, from the early 1950′s to the early 1960′s, the valley went through a hiring frenzy as jobs in microwave companies went from 700 to 7,000. Poulsen Wireless was later bought by Federal Telegraph of San Francisco. Poulsen Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Company was founded in Palo Alto in 1909.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. San Francisco.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I mean, there were many small annoyances along the way — finding a bookkeeper, and an accountant, and interacting with the California Franchise Tax Board, to which I always seem to owe some amount of money no matter how many times I’ve paid my bills. But recently I hired my first employee, so I’m hoping some of that dissipates.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. Senior VP of Operations/COO – ROBLOX - San Francisco, CA Tree forts. If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here: [link].

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Adam Hertz, a cable company executive in San Francisco , and his wife, Joan, have enthusiastically embraced the movement. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Thats real money."

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Hypemarks was a Los Angeles social sharing startup that after about a year of failing to gain traction and turn a profit, changed course, moved to San Francisco and became Tint , an embeddable social-feed service. The story of pivoting direction is common in the U.S. start-up world. Weighing In. Tim Sae Koo.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

The Carson, California company employs about 800 people in its 4 Southern California plants. Before I knew it, I had a solid client base and too much business to handle on my own – I incorporated, made my first hire, and became an accidental business owner. Thanks to Mark and Tori Baird, Hire Patriots ! #14

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2014

Once I had a few under my belt, I realized I was a start-up junkie, and founded Five Mill Ventures in San Francisco before I was 30. 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.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Large companies have a habit of hiring outside agencies to do market research and customer discovery. You can’t hire outside professionals to test and learn from customer interactions and make decisions for you. Remedy: For radically new ideas you should defer hiring outside agencies until you’ve found product/market fit.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

By Jason Brown, associate in the San Francisco office of Fisher Phillips. Independent contractors, interns, wage exemptions, hiring and firing, trade secrets… these are the most common concerns that impact entrepreneurs and emerging companies. Jason Brown is an associate in the San Francisco office of Fisher Phillips.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. There are and we do. The new administration has helped some of their ranks to cross over into the Federal community too. Recommended reading: [link] [link] September 9, 2009 9:21 PM Anonymoussaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. I flew down to LA Tuesday morning from San Francisco, and we had signed the agreement by Wednesday. Fred Turner : A lot of hiring. Then I moved our team down from Menlo Park on Thursday.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Carbon Health is now running some of the largest vaccination sites in California, most famously at Dodger Stadium, in partnership with the City of Los Angeles. I think one of the things that we, who are, you have the privilege of being here, in America, in California, in Silicon Valley. ER : How would you contrast the difference?

Silicon Valley 60

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Today, if you go into most major cities, you’ll find people who’ve worked with us, or hired our alumni, or attended our conferences who are spreading the gospel and showing these practices working and getting outcomes. When we started, making government work better through technology and design was barely a thing people talked about.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Meanwhile, the Keen founders, having just moved back to San Francisco after three months away at TechStars, met in our living room late one April evening and prepared offers for me and two of our other close friends, Kirk and Micah. Kirk flew into San Francisco from Seattle on that Friday, so he could talk to the founders in person.

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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. Then we hired two people and got profitable again in another six months. Jason: SyncBloc.

Silicon Valley 204

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2010

A friend calls me up from “you name it&# city: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. Anybody who has any operational experience and common sense will never want to hire you anyways.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Large companies have a habit of hiring outside agencies to do market research and customer discovery. You can’t hire outside professionals to test and learn from customer interactions and make decisions for you. Remedy: For radically new ideas you should defer hiring outside agencies until you’ve found product/market fit.

Non-Compete 120

Non-Compete Agile Business Model San Francisco 120

Austin Startup

APRIL 7, 2017

Two weeks before my scheduled start date (and a week after I put down a deposit for a downtown lease), HR called to let me know that the company over-hired for their Austin office and that I could re-interview in Mountain View, CA. And yes, I would be on the hook for breaking the lease! But as is usually the case, things worked out.

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Austin San Francisco New York City Texas 54

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It After years of the San Francisco Bay Area dominating the tech start-up scene, with huge smashes such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, entrepreneurs are finding they can go elsewhere to grow and prosper. But there will be," Citron says.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

My sense is the market is not as broad, and most small businesses do not hire very actively. Arun Ravi from San Francisco, California, discussed inCircled , a proposed new social network that would be significantly more selective about only involving 'inner circle' friends.

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Acquisition SEO San Francisco Affiliate 115

Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

When I freed up time, I asked the partners if I could start attending the trading classes even though I hadn’t been hired into that role, and that’s how I became a trader. 05% of the participants (literally, 10 people, five of whom didn’t live in California). They’ve made some powerhouse hires.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

The graphic is a map of “Tech Hot Spots” printed in the San Francisco Business Times (21-27 February 2014). Back then, in the relatively innocent days of the digital Neolithic, San Francisco was a boutique outpost hovering beyond the northern border of the Silicon Valley heartland.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I might have pursued a humanities education at a “ kumbaya college ” in California, but it’s only human to be at least a little bit selfish! HOW TO GET HIRED AS A PRODUCT MANAGER The question I am constantly asked is, “ How do I get my foot in the door for a product manager job at a tech company? SO, YOU’RE HIRED! …

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The privately held company is headquartered in Los Altos, California and is backed by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Emergence Capital Partners, General Atlantic, Meritech Capital Partners, NEA, Scale Venture Partners, and U.S. Strength in experience. Rapid expansion.

Europe 114

Europe Entrepreneur United States San Francisco 114

Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2011

Paul Graham is the founder of YCombinator , a startup incubator in California. Merlin Mann , an independent writer, speaker, and broadcaster in San Francisco, talks about maintaining focus on work, dreams, life, and goals, in a hectic life. How to Hire a Programmer – Derek Sivers. Better – Merlin Mann.

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