Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

How Employee Experience Shapes Brand Perception written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Tiffani Bova In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Tiffani Bova. Key Takeaway: Prioritizing the employee experience alongside customer experience drives business success.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2014

Airline engineering issues arise due to lack of oversight; methods used for risk management and the use of temporary employees and outsourced specialists. We offer videoconferencing services that can bring airline engineers together online to resolve issues and discuss the industry. Connecting Engineers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 12, 2011

You’re not just hiring any old programmer or salesman, you’re hiring employee #1. Right, so it doesn’t matter with your first few employees either. In a small startup there’s no layer separating employees from customers. It’s happening now at WP Engine.). Write a crazy job description.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. Period, full-stop.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A recent Gartner report clearly illustrated the need for recognition of quality performance for employees. The report states, “Recognizing a job well done is a proven method of increasing employee morale and engagement. Modern gamification solutions will pair sophisticated engagement mechanics coupled with a powerful rules engine.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

There were about ten indie coworkers from the original community and ten employees of this startup. What we realized was that while our coworking crew all self-selected to join this communal space, the employees of this startup were just kind of dragged along by the founder and told to work here.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We’re looking to triple the size of our engineering and product team within the next year,” said Sandy Jen, co-founder and chief technology officer for Honor. “We With our new global scale, we are excited to accelerate the rollout of our game-changing care delivery platform.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

“It kinda sucks to be engineer #1.”. That’s what a couple of my friends – engineers at Google and Bloomberg who have been following the rise of startup culture with intrigue – told me recently. They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Engineer #1?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Many companies experience the dilemma of trying to increase revenue while facing engineering costs. One solution is to outsource your engineering services. Engineers are an important part of the success of your business. Here are the other benefits of outsourcing engineering services: Hire Talented Civil Engineers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2016

As a business owner, you probably already know the importance of training new employees. Here are some of the top reasons your employee training should be permanently ongoing: 1. If you have a team of software engineers, perhaps they could benefit with some soft skills training. Knowledge Capital. Productivity Boost.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

Even as technology evolves, old-fashioned social engineering will remain a favorite tool for fraudsters and a major risk for small businesses. Going Paperless Gains Efficiency What is Social Engineering Anyway? Certainly, these hackers exist, but in practice, many fraudsters skip code altogether and focus instead on social engineering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

To be successful, and leave a positive legacy, you need a team of motivated employees and loyal customers. Tesla has found that sharing many of their battery patents has expanded the market for all electric vehicle providers, as well as attracted the very best engineers to join Tesla’s team.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

The CFO asked me to stay as one of the engineering directors came in for a meeting. The director had complained to his boss, the VP of Engineering, who admitted his hands were tied, as this was a “facilities matter,” and the VP of facilities reported to the CFO. And those early employees got rewarded as their stock turned into cash.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

” Milton Berle At the moment of publication of this post, over 95,508 tech employees from 308 companies were laid off since the beginning of 2023 according to Layoffs.fyi. What kind of job would drive your economic engine, or provide you with financial stability? “If Opportunity Doesn’t Knock, Build a Door.”

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. It’s hard to find good engineering talent right now, and if you’ve found somebody who knows what they’re doing they probably know others.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One of the crucial steps in getting your business up and running is to hire your first employees. What will help to attract these employees? What will ensure you are able to retain these employees? A car without checking the engine? Always do your due-diligence when hiring an employee to work in your business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2012

What makes one employee highly effective and another average? When interviewing, I look for the following seven habits – every highly effective employee with whom I’ve worked (at crowdSPRING and elsewhere possessed most of these habits): 1. It’s important that employees stay disciplined during the ups and the downs.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 22, 2019

The Benefits of Innovation Training for Operational Employees. Why is it that organizations don’t invest in training operational employees? Don’t this large group of employees deserve a Brown Bag Innovation Training? It’s almost as if creativity from operational employees is actively discouraged.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 6, 2021

You need the right WFM software, from model management and operations to tracking your employees’ leave. Here are some of the best apps that you can use to help you with everything, from employee attendance to team engagement. Transformify can help build on your human resources, managing all your employees from start to finish.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

For example, Howard Schultz at Starbucks was quick to accept accountability for a racial bias incident a few years ago in one of his stores in Philadelphia, and he shut down all his stores for an anti-bias training session, rather than try to blame a single store employee or overall cultural conditions.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

Announcement: Square lets employees work from home permanently. From my perspective, as someone that runs a company specializing in hiring high-quality remote engineers, matching people with opportunities, and managing remote teams, there are three key drivers. Companies Must Build a Process for Managing Distributed Engineering Teams.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Also, if your employees will use personal devices in the workplace, you must ensure they are using the latest security protections, such as: Biometric authentication. You must also routinely review your data security plan as you hire more employees and create more departments. Facial recognition. Fingerprints. Train Your Team.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 3, 2022

Search engine optimization (SEO) promises many benefits, enabling you to increase traffic to your website, improve brand visibility, and set a course for long-term growth. You probably already know that most people rely on search engines to answer their questions, research new topics, and gather information. The short answer is no!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues.

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Rembrandt Communications

MARCH 1, 2022

Then, you can use specific wording, search engine optimization tactics, landing pages, emails, and more to track responses for that messaging. While your marketing and PR teams need to lead your promotional efforts and develop the specific messaging you use for each campaign, all of your employees should know what’s going on.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

While employees are often inspired by success stories and case studies of triumphant innovation tales of large companies, the cost of not innovating is often overlooked. Sharing the stories of organizational failure due to a lack of enterprise innovation can create a sense of urgency in employees and make them understand the stakes.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Here’s why: because they take technology that used to be available to engineers only, and make it available to everyone. They’re still built that way by the product’s engineers. The point of no-code tools is to empower non-engineers to create. The no-code revolution has begun. How no-code tools work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Business and social engineering attacks are on the rise, and if your company isn’t prepared, you could be the next victim. In this article, we will discuss what business and social engineering attacks are, how they work, and how you can protect your company from them. What is Business and Social Engineering?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. I know a change is going to come. Loss of status ?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

If you’re like most business leaders, you’re not above engaging in a little employee-poaching to improve your position. The first is hiring a new employee with the intention of gaining access to confidential information about another company. Well yes… except when it’s not. Think again.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 25, 2019

As an engineering firm, your reputation is everything, but at the end of the day, you’ll only ever be as good as the quality of your staff. You need talent to build a great reputation, and you need a solid reputation to get the engineers at the top of their game onto your payroll. You can’t have one without the other.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Stuttering Employees Tend to Be More Dedicated. Any firm that’s discounting an applicant because s/he stutters may be losing out on a prized employee. A stuttering job applicant may be just the right kind of employee for your startup. Yes, your startup’s dream-team can have a stuttering employee as well.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 13, 2019

Opcity announced Thursday plans to open a second office in downtown Austin with up to 200 employees to serve as its product and engineering hub. The post Opcity Plans to Open a New Engineering Hub in Downtown Austin with 200 Employees appeared first on SiliconHills. 6th Street in the fall.

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