Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

If it's the number of invites sent, it's virality. Airbnb wasn’t sure whether or not the experiment would work, so the team didn’t want to hire a staff of photographers or invest in a new part of the application. As a social network based on user-generated content, Circle of Friends only grew when its users were engaged.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In fact, to achieve your aggressive growth goals in the face of uncertainty and change, you need to follow a new set of rules that fly in the face of what is taught in business schools and are completely counterintuitive to accepted “best practices” of either early stage startups or classic corporate management. Rule #2: Hire Ms.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

You’ll also likely be hiring local staff for your new office. Since these early individuals will be critical to the success of your business, being present and managing them firsthand will effectively establish a precedent, not to mention, align them with the overall culture and vision of your company.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. If the viral coefficient is 0.9,

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Do you feel like the more users you have it helps accelerate, is there some kind of, maybe not necessarily viral, but that people just tell their friends at all. One of the things we find, because we certainly threw out what can we do to make this more viral or to work more in a social way so that we can try to get more people on the system?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. Look for people writing about hiring, about real estate about small business in general. More details → Jobs by Simply Hired. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

I was asked recently how NextView evaluates such early stage companies for investment. Here are a couple examples from our portfolio: Vertical Communities: One of the exciting attributes of GrabCAD in the early days was its rapidly growing, engaged community of mechanical engineers. This tends to be pretty hit-or-miss, I find.

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