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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Fundamentally, lean startups do more with less, because they systematically find and eliminate waste that slows down value creation. Another terrific post, Eric.

Lean 140
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Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

Both Sides of the Table

Admittedly annual pay increases weren’t as much as we would have wanted because these were the lean post dot com days but we at least tried to have Ryan top the range. So we decided to sponsor Ryan to work out of the US in San Francisco. When we started our next company, Koral, Ryan was a co-founder.

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Accelerator Spotlight: I Have This Friend

View from Seed

Founders: Ingrid Hung & Emily Persky . They can’t afford to spend 10% of their $100,000 salary on Interior Design Services alone, but they would certainly be willing and able to spend a few hundred dollars. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . Company: I Have This Friend.

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How I negotiated my startup compensation

keen.io

And if the CEO says, “Salaries will be adjusted to market value soon,” that’s probably a best-case scenario. The founders had been dropping hints that they wanted me to join them. I knew this meant that the founders had come to some conclusion about what to offer, and now I was going to find out what it was. Me: “Cool.

Salary 50
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John Doerr's 10 lean startup tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, October 30, 2008 John Doerrs 10 lean startup tips I just saw video of John Doerrs talk yesterday at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn&# roundtable event. Voluntary salary reduction program. I was impressed enough to transcribe (and paraphrase) the list.

Lean 121
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Should this startup exist? Converting 5W’s into existential justification

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

When investors interrogate founders, these interrogatives arise, but with a twist: Adding the word “why” in front of each. But also you de-risk by aligning the solution to the founder’s existing abilities, for example in using whatever language/framework the founders are already adept in. When → Why now?

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. Ampex business took off when Terman introduced Ampex founder Alex Poniatoff to Joseph and Henry McMicking. Interestingly enough, Fred Terman, Dean of Stanford Engineering was tied to all three companies.