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eve is coming to Austin

Austin Startup

But enough about what we do, I want to tell you our story; who we are and not only how we’ve managed to continue to grow despite the event industry shutdown but how we’re modernizing the standard workweek. From Hawaii to Ho Chi Minh, we hail from 10 different countries (and counting). The story of eve Why?

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. You can’t let every team hire as many team members as they want. A Sense of Purpose.

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If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO

Reid Hoffman

I speak from personal experience, since I hired and partnered with a CEO, Jeff Weiner, very successfully at LinkedIn five years after co-founding the company. I love the early stages of building a company. They need to be passionate about leadership, management, and organizational processes as the company scales.

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What does it feel like to be the CEO of a start-up? 3 FULL TIME JOBS.

Scalable Startup

Managing and Properly Growing The Business – this includes several things, depending on the size of the enterprise: managing employees, administration, hiring, firing, leases, expenses, unhappy employees, fixing other problems, etc.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million. Within a year I hired 92 permanent staff and another 30 full time contractors. I canceled my first ever extended family trip to Hawaii less than a week before going. We were now set to close at $46 million in new capital.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

Peter: Techstars is probably the most famous accelerator but the idea of the accelerator versus the incubator because there is living field, because there’s this very early stage fields for them both. The cool thing is with the device like, that with the science like that, there’s a lot of early stage proving ground needed.