Early Stage Hiring Management Wiki 
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
Hiring an HR specialist isn’t a line item in most seed funding pitches. Startups usually can’t justify hiring a non-revenue generating employee early on. There’s the sense that day-to-day activities and administrative duties can be managed by the founders. You want new hires up to speed quickly.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 15, 2013
In part one I covered the need for early-stage enterprise software companies to build up professional services staff to ensure successful implementation projects. This group was given access to our R&D wiki so they could monitor what we were producing and what we were planning. That’s why I like deer. Easy to catch.
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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2009
The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. Id like to talk about a technique Ive used to help manage this growth without slowing down. Yet the great companies manage to handle growth while keeping the resources dedicated to maintenance and scalability mostly fixed.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 2, 2009
My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 30, 2009
A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Read the rest.
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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