Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

Developers, designers, and finance experts from around the world go through a rigorous process that includes live screening and weeks-long test projects before being invited to join Toptal’s network. At minimum, companies that want to be nimble should leverage the right mix of full-time employees and independent talent.

Technical Review 40

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Employees are the foundation of any firm – the first KPI any company should focus on over the next 12 months is to bring stability back into the firm, and reduce annual turnover. Having all staff from top to bottom involved in decision-making fosters team spirit, and motivates employees to be part of the turnaround.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

In 2019, I want to take that to another level by setting specific goals to develop the expertise of our staff members and to further cement our authority as the digital marketing experts in our verticals. It’s been shown that a strong company culture attracts and retains top talent and employees tend to be happier and more productive.

Entrepreneur 123

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2015

Beyond that, when a business buys computers for its employees, for example, it owns them. Are you comfortable with your employees using four-year-old technology? So if your business is low on funds, you might want to look into lease financing instead of heading over to the bank to ask for a loan. Use an invoice-clearing service.

Management 60

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

There are startups out there that are valued at a billion dollars, but because of employee salaries, assets, etc. Now we’re no longer spending employee manpower on a service that wasn’t helping accelerate the right type of growth we need. they still aren’t profitable. Have you ever walked into a traditional freight brokerage before?

Early Stage 146

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Working at a mighty mid-sized agency provides employees the unique opportunity to grow within their positions and assume leadership roles. Too often, employees are nervous to voice their ideas because they are either at the bottom of the proverbial totem pole or their suggestions fall outside the realm of their job description.

Entrepreneur 93

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

They represent the result of a lot of hard work by the company employees, and external analytics partners. Inspire each Marketer, Finance Analyst, Logistics Support Staff, Call Center Manager, and every VP to move one step up or one step to the right. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension….

Analytics 93

Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

Haystack

JULY 8, 2018

After reflecting on it for a day, I began to understand why — even though this topic has been written about many times, “technology” as a sector and industry now has gone from vertical to horizontal, entirely pervasive across industries, across sectors, across geographies and cultures.

Early Stage 95

Early Stage Dilution Private Equity Common Stock 95

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

And, when employees and leaders are confident that they can innovate, a chain reaction of positives occur. These include operational systems, production systems, sales and marketing systems, finance and legal systems, strategic alignment systems, idea decision systems, rapid research systems — and the list goes on.

Intellectual Property 174

Intellectual Property Engineer Flash Vertical 174

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! . #4- 4- Getting comfortable with the numbers and finances. Hiring the first ten employees was incredibly easy for me. I’m now an award-winning provider of multimedia sales support guidance for organizations around the world. and many others. . Photo Credit: Amanda Kendall.

Entrepreneur 56

Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 56

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! #4- 4- Getting comfortable with the numbers and finances. Hiring the first ten employees was incredibly easy for me. I’m now an award-winning provider of multimedia sales support guidance for organizations around the world. and many others. Photo Credit: Amanda Kendall.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 54

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. Dara manages Uber’s fast-growing business in 63 countries around the world and leads a global team of more than 22,000 employees. And you were beloved by Expedia employees. Iconversations [guest].

Iran 39

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the last 3 decades, IT has evolved from providing infrastructure and hardware to a more strategic role that is intimately woven with business verticals as shown below: - 1980s to 1990s: Servers, Storage, and Communications Infrastructure. 2005 to Today: Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, Government Specific, etc.

Technology 174

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Homebrew, an early stage venture firm focused on this same revolution has illustrated the following: An engineer or designer gets work by offering his skills via vertical marketplaces. Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over one million employees. Technology as the Great Enabler.

Silicon Valley 208

Silicon Valley API Cofounder Salary 208

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. You need to have rock-solid expectations of in-office or at-home work hours and specific skill sets your new employee should have — from languages and platforms to design and UX/UI abilities.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. the Untouched Vertical.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model?

Customer Development 243

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Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

As I'm focused on the finance vertical, any event directly dealing with this space would of been better for contacts to potential customers, partners or employees. Could I send my partner or an employee in my stead? No, I should of been at an event where I could recruit developers or find folks looking to start companies.

Vertical 107

Vertical Partner Finance Employee 107

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Comparing the list to the top 300 leading SaaS companies in the US, some interesting trends emerge: Europe is showing strength in data/ analytics and security, driven by the booming ecosystem in Israel but is less represented in developer/infrastructure and vertical applications. Your feedback is welcome!

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API 83

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. How ‘Mad Men’ Could Turn You Into The Worst Employee Ever [INFOGRAPHIC]. Money and Finance Lists. We did a lot of brainstorming and research to come up with the name WebKite. Like Tweet. Like Tweet. Like Tweet.

Naming 84

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 24, 2013

in seed financing from A16Z and Spark. It’s a perfect storm waiting to take flight – as software continues to eat industries and verticals we believe this BloomNation story will repeat itself over and over again across more and more industries. BloomNation is launching today with $1.6M

Vertical 74

Vertical Retention Green Acquisition 74

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading.

Silicon Valley 230

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 230

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Likewise, fundraising announcements can drive investor interest for future financing rounds, but I’ve found it’s usually better to just stay under the radar and build the company. The value of senior employees with industry experience.

Founder 60

Founder Due Diligence Vertical Early Stage 60

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired. You literally have to take your vision of the opportunity and against all rational odds assemble financing, and a team to help you execute. And that’s just to get started. And that’s just to get started.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

For later-stage, it’s a high-priced financing round, tipping scales on widespread adoption, rapid hiring, or credible information on successive revenue-growth quarters. DOs for a systematic rather than haphazard startup job search: Pick a specific vertical or theme (e.g. Specific questions spur new ideas.

Startup 148

Startup Portfolio Later Stage Hiring 148

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 23, 2013

in seed financing from A16Z and Spark. It’s a perfect storm waiting to take flight – as software continues to eat industries and verticals we believe this BloomNation story will repeat itself over and over again across more and more industries. BloomNation is launching today with $1.6M

Vertical 60

Vertical Retention Green Acquisition 60

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. “The INVESTMENT ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON THE ISRAEL-MENA AXIS.

UAE 60

UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Dickinson: 3 amendments likely to be offered: 1) Financing 2) Schumer, at request of financial services sector, is thinking of bringing an amendment to the floor re: business method patents. Our process to process appeals is particularly bad; # appeals not yet heard forms a vertical line if we graph it. we just need more funding].

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property Detroit Technical Review Software Review 60

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

This is also backed by other research findings, such as the International Finance Corporation (IFC) which noted that the impact investing market is “growing and maturing”. In its latest report , the private sector arm of the World Bank Group estimated that in 2019 between $505 billion and $3.5 The generational point is worth lingering on.

Venture Capital 174

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Up and Running

APRIL 30, 2013

Honchos are found by looking vertically. Who is the best at marketing, finance, or whatever happens to be the most pressing issue? They are the ones to help you fill out your employee roster or land key partnerships, so it’s usually good to have financial backing already. Who is the best in your industry?

Equity 89

Equity Vertical Naming Networking 89

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. You have to finance the period of traffic building that is pretty much red-ink financing.

Silicon Valley 105

Silicon Valley Columbus Ohio Incubator 105

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I And Stoddard notes that at NetApp they use proper governance to facilitate faster learning: “We use an enterprise executive architecture committee, with all the leaders of every NetApp function — marketing, sales, HR, operations, finance, and so on.

Algorithm 174

Algorithm Analytics Social Media Metrics 174

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Another benefit of talking freely, is that you may also find potential partners or future employees–other key components beyond investment money. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] link] Stan James. link] Nivi.

Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. Remember that you should evaluate both internal (your employees) and external (everyone else) perceptions of your brand. Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

Software Review 79

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