Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2021

With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to investors, employees, mentors and customers. The Capital Factory Texas Fund is backed by many of the most successful CEOs and technology investors in Texas and across the U.S.,

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. I specifically went to United Online, which was then 1,000 employees, and then Google, which was 15,000 when I joined, to get experience at bigger companies and see the dynamics of how they operate.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Sometimes all our indicators are positive, but the employee just doesnt work out. On the other side of the coin, sometimes we miss out on a great employee because our indicators steered us away. But the person Mary chose turned out to be one of the best employees weve ever had. We look at past experience. We call references.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

So if you have advice that you think is relevant only to people working in established corporations, or only to government employees, or only to non-profit leaders, or only to innovative educators, or only to engineers, no prob—you can indicate that in your application. 4) I’m not a coder; should I bother to apply? Glad you asked.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Like many of you, I am both an employee and a people leader. At different points of the day, sometimes from one minute to the next, I have to switch gears so that I can be fully present as both a good employee and a good people leader. I’ll cover the ten good employee patterns: 1. How to be a Good Employee. Be thorough.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries. First, there’s virtually no seed or angel investment capital, since affluent Colombian investors are highly risk-averse and put their money into real estate and established companies as a rule.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Can an established organization with a recognized brand, proven revenue stream and an employee count in the hundreds or thousands embrace these principles? TheLadders’ subscription model has proven to be successful and the company has enjoyed solid growth with the employee count crossing 400 recently.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries. First, there’s virtually no seed or angel investment capital, since affluent Colombian investors are highly risk-averse and put their money into real estate and established companies as a rule.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

Aside from that, it’s a tough challenge to maintain and supervise many employees. It could be too costly for businesses to hire employees and attach funding to sustain them with basic things. Fortunately, there is plenty of information for developers, coders, and programmers, allowing you to easily implement chatbots.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 1, 2014

The glorious green grass of the work-from-home employee is a goal for many successful people (and not-so-successful people) and a great way to hire the best talent without having to pay to relocate them. It’s just challenging and requires even more discipline than might be necessary for a normal employee. No physical demands.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Employee talent is too often wasted by not letting people thrive in their work and take control of their schedules. After being sold to ExactTarget, our team had a training session with the ExactTarget team who were asked what they liked about working at iGoDigital. Overwhelmingly, the answer was that “they treated us like adults.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2020

“I wouldn’t be surprised,” he continues, “if there are some employees who say… ‘you know what? Sandra Upson/Wired – The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder. I actually really liked that. I don’t want to go back to the office.’ And you know what? I bet that’ll be okay.” “I

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Berkonomics

JULY 14, 2016

He hires for creative ability, people who can be the architects as opposed to the simple coders of routines. On the other hand, depending upon the length of a project, an inside employee may be cheaper in the long run, and quality control easier to manage. Costs are variable and can be curtailed easily in tough times.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. Bringing in someone who is a complete opposite can sometimes put a barrier up from the start between both the employee and the office. Ashley Bodi , Business Beware.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

Failing to find a coder whose vision aligned with ours, we ended up coding ActivityDeck website ourselves. This flexibility has allowed me to have the lifestyle I want while building a successful business, and it keeps my employees happy, too. We realized the issue remains with both the quality and quantity of teachers.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We do not know the people behind them, all we see is a hierarchy of employees. Fortis is the perfect word to describe our service and company, which comprises former FBI/OIG agents, CMS auditors, and certified coders. When constructing my second company, Margo, we had a naming contest among employees. Photo credit: Azman Nabi.

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Diego Basch

JULY 1, 2014

Maybe they had four thousand employees at the time. I was told that I was interviewing to replace employee #7 (everyone talked about their own employee number) who was leaving because he was fully vested that month (red flag). I remember arriving at Netscape, a gigantic campus that used to belong to HP.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Also ranked high on the list was properly "training, educating, and rewarding" employees. Companies like Odesk , 99Designs , and Guru are empowering skilled designers, coders, consultants, and marketers to offer their services to buyers directly , on an as needed, per project basis.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2014

Every member of your team, whether it is a front-line cashier or a back-end coder, needs to understand your offering and be able (and willing) to help any customer. Here are five things any front-line employee can do to welcome customers, make them feel wanted, give them comfort that you are here to serve, and actually enjoy the interaction!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2013

Karma is real: Be mindful of it in the way you deal with your employees, prospects, business partners, and clients. Our developers are some of the best coders out there, but they’re also film buffs, foodies, musicians, gamers, and marathon runners. If you cannot pay your employees or your vendors, you are dead in the water.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Microsoft rolled out an “ Inclusive Hiring ” effort that’s tailored to those who would never make it through a traditional hiring process, like exceptional coders on the autism spectrum who may not have linear employment histories or engaging interview skills. Then identify the questions that you need to ask potential employees.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? This answer. Please specify the necessary improvements.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Employees. Office Space. Virtual Office. CEO 5 - 10.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Max Shapiro s People Connect Staffing has an innovative program called Employees Without Paychecks. Also witness the countless nights and weekend that FOSS people invest in their projects and in that environment coders tend to think other people will not commit. Finding Employees. Not likely. Big Companies. Captain Recruiter.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2017

Series B and beyond – pretty stable and larger base of employees. A coder who says he has a passion for coding but has never built anything with code will be far less convincing than someone has one or two projects that demonstrated his seriousness. d) Related side products.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 16, 2010

We’re currently running tests to find a good graphics person, then next up will be a coder, a VA and so on until I have a solid team of talented people, all of whom will cost under $1600 a month total to employ full time. I can’t even hire ONE Australian full time on that kind of money, let alone an entire team.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

The kids running amok within Quora (the website) insist on the quasi-fascist myth of the 10x developer who single-handedly is more productive than a whole bunch of incompetent coders (you can imagine the environment they come from.) When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. They hire local employees or family. A lifestyle entrepreneur is living the life they love, works for no one but themselves, while pursuing their personal passion.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2017

Are you or your employees operating at peak productivity? Content collaboration software can change the way modern business teams operate, allowing employees to work together on an entirely new level through the ability to create, collaborate and share projects all in one place. According to new research, the answer is likely no.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 30, 2020

Examples of documentation by key employees. And it is even more of a challenge to consider documenting the tribal knowledge of a company’s key employees. We leaders are not invincible. Have you made a list of your critical chain of advisors, including bankers, accountants, industry advisors, and more?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

A: have them deploy code to production on their first day as an employee. How many people - coders - do you think a small startup with a 6mm pages/month site should have? A: yes, yes, yes Q: "Seems like the biggest issue is changing peoples mentality. How did you deal with that on a new recruit (specificaly seasoned ones)?"

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Since I’m not a coder by profession, building a website is out of the question. Having been a journalist myself, I’ve experienced first hand the pains of sending lists of links or PDF files to editors – or, to anyone interested in my writing portfolio. At that time, I wanted something simple and easy to update.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Ben Congleton (03:41): Coder. You know, I, I think when we got to the point where we could hire our first employee was a pretty big milestone cuz OAR was o it was kind of a weird company. And when we got to the point where we could hire our first employee, like that was pretty exciting. We raised a total of $85,000.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Modern businesses, massively reliant on information technology, are faced with a fundamental question - should they organize “traditionally” via single locations where salaried “W-2” employees work, or should they exist primarily in “the cloud” - with far flung networks of “1099” contractors, vendors, affiliates and the like?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it. But my coders will [.] [.].

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2013

And it is even more of a challenge to consider documenting the tribal knowledge of a company’s key employees. Then inevitably a key employee gives notice and we begin to worry over what knowledge we will watch walk out that door, wonder how we will recover in the short term and grow out of the problem in the long term.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Modern businesses, massively reliant on information technology, are faced with a fundamental question - should they organize “traditionally” via single locations where salaried “W-2” employees work, or should they exist primarily in “the cloud” - with far flung networks of “1099” contractors, vendors, affiliates and the like?

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