Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2021

Google’s internal management approach has sustained and scaled pretty impressively over the years. Underpinning it all are OKRs — Objectives and Key Results — the framework by which individuals, teams and the entire company is managed. OKRs are sensible, straight forward and on a planning cycle managers understand.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management. For example, I suggest it doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a full-time team member who’s an SEO consultant. Minimal cost. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. Even though everyone has an opinion on good early stage practices, I was impressed with the actionable blueprint in the classic book by Scott Duffy, “ Launch! Use personal credit cards for business.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. That’s why Roger Smith puts the focus of the CTO on programming for the earliest stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. Even though everyone has an opinion on good early stage practices, I was impressed with the actionable blueprint in the classic book by Scott Duffy, “ Launch! Use personal credit cards for business.

Early Stage 317

Early Stage Bootstrapping Revenue Framework 317

David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

The objective of the research is to define a blueprint for how investors can help portfolio companies succeed through operational (non-financial) support, including but not limited to facilitating shared services, recruiting, knowledge sharing, and enhancing management skills.

Portfolio 144

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Pitchbot.vc

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. But it was great experience to put yourself in an uncomfortable place to manage 90 Type A personalities.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. Who We Are: We’re two individuals with a strong background in strategic consulting and management. Advocate for the appropriate use of SAAS, design patterns, frameworks, SOA, ORM, and MVC.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Many startup CEOs hire COOs or launch companies with a co-founder carrying the title. When should founders hire one? For most of my career, I’ve served startups and early-stage companies as an operating executive or advisor. Do you need highly skilled functional managers or do you need a true partner?

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

It’s an age-old scenario: You’re building a company, you have a product idea, and you’ve got the framework laid out in your head, but you want some expert advice and guidance on how to take the next steps. Project Manager Dice Holdings Software Engineer, Python, YouTube Google/YouTube Web Developer Yelp Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 13, 2010

These folks are often “TBD hires” at an early stage, so not many VCs really know how to evaluate team talent if they haven’t run a company before—and that’s a critical skill as an entrepreneur. Successful people don’t really question or analyze success too much.

Venture Capital 116

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Early Stage Framework 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. Even though everyone has an opinion on good early stage practices, I was impressed with the actionable blueprint in the classic book by Scott Duffy, “ Launch! Use personal credit cards for business.

Early Stage 158

Early Stage Bootstrapping Revenue Framework 158

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. Even though everyone has an opinion on good early stage practices, I was impressed with the actionable blueprint in a new book by Scott Duffy, “ Launch! Neither of these approaches bodes well for success.

Entrepreneur 265

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Though most founders would agree culture is important in an organization’s success, it often takes a back seat to product development and generating a profit in the early stages of an organization’s life. The founder and first hires have overcome obstacles and understand the behaviors that prove to lead to success.

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View from Seed

APRIL 8, 2020

He helps early-stage startups with sales, marketing, and general “go to market” topics. After talking to your champion, you should have a good understanding of the decision-making framework they’re working with. Take some of that outbound effort, and task salespeople to account manager efforts.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Ready to join a new management team? So I recommend use the framework of an investor: Venture capital investing checklist. How To Evaluate A Job Offer – Tips For Senior Managers And Executives. Joining An Early Stage Startup? How to assign stock options in early-stage startups. Interviewing.

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2019

Ready to join a new management team? So I recommend use the framework of an investor: Venture capital investing checklist. How To Evaluate A Job Offer – Tips For Senior Managers And Executives. Joining An Early Stage Startup? How to assign stock options in early-stage startups. Interviewing.

Private Equity 60

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

Between my experiences as a management consultant, as well as my product and marketing roles at multiple tech companies, I felt that I had enough operational experience to make that leap sooner than later. When it came time for me to decide on whether or not to attend business school, I knew I wanted to eventually start my own company.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Tuesday night I attended the kickoff for mentors and got to hear from the companies that have joined the Alchemist Blockchain Techstars Accelerator in New York – it was a lot of fun and well executed by the managing director of the program Yossi Hasson. He has put together an incredible team it seems with folks like David Gogel.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

If they’re the kind of infinite learner who uses their past experiences to make their decision-making better, they have a huge advantage when it comes to everything from hiring to strategy to sales, making them an even better bet the second time around. Those experiences led me to refine my decision-making framework.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. Even though everyone has an opinion on good early stage practices, I was impressed with the actionable blueprint in a recent book by Scott Duffy, “ Launch! Neither of these approaches bodes well for success.

Early Stage 120

Early Stage Startup Bootstrapping Revenue 120

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Gain valuable insights into the Miles framework, a strategic approach to identifying and leveraging your strengths. Through the Miles framework, they guide listeners to identify and leverage their unique strengths, turning constraints into creative opportunities. It's about the early stages of a startup to John (07:39): Workshop.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

What should an early-stage startup founder focus on if they want to implement PLG? But for early stage founders, I think there are two particular scenarios where PLG can be really helpful. So for early-stage founders, those are the two scenarios where PLG might be a great fit. That's the foundation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. In the early days it’s more book keeping than accounting.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

They constantly evaluate their systems, frameworks, and processes to determine whether they’re operating in the most effective manner for where they are now. The number of daily cases we had quickly rose from 10 to 100 to 1,000, and our lone customer service representative insisted that we hire another person to help out.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Hire a virtual assistant to find your targets’ emails and other information. Day 1: Post hiring ad for lead generation VA. Even if you’re at a very early stage, if you’re reading this, it’s safe to say that research tasks are below your pay grade, and conducting them will leave you time for little else. Click rates.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

According to the Dow Jones research, 43 early-stage funds raised $3.1 Madrona’s new $300 million fund — while the largest in the firm’s history — certainly qualifies in the early-stage group. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). billion during the first half of the year, up from $1.3

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David Teten

JANUARY 14, 2019

Many early-stage companies do not have these issues top of mind, because so many founders are pre-children. As a manager, I’ve always tried to maintain a culture of understanding people’s personal calendar needs, e.g., childcare obligations. The manager said, “No problem, that’s a great idea.”

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

This is what brings us to the second big difference: the cost of Applied Venture is too large to finance from a standard VC management fee. . Different funds finance the cost of these teams with a differing weighting of asking portfolio companies to pay for services, larger than normal management fees, and reduced compensation for partners.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I also recognize that while I am the first technologist on the team, I will not by any means be the last and I'm hoping that subsequent hires will be people I consider brighter and more talented than myself. I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. Accounting?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

So it's understanding what constraint is and how to manage that, I suppose. And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have, um, customers, you don't yet have traction in sales, how are you gonna judge it? 10:56): Right?

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? third party to vet or manage&# your development team.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 25, 2017

Heather Hartnett: Human Ventures is what is now called a startup studio—a hybrid of early-stage VC fund and company builder. Instead, we wanted to create a fertile framework for builders to build, and to help bring valuable companies into existence. HH: Fortunately, no, we haven’t had to kill any that have launched.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” So, in response the company had hired a global consulting firm to help solve the problem. A shorter version of this post first appeared on the HBR blog. There’s a much better way.

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