Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. So your Q1 results will be $180,000 less profitable than if you hadn’t hired them. Hiring more people isn’t always the right answer.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” Instead you need to find the patterns, where I can build a single piece of IP or technology and then “sell it” to all the combatant commands and services equally.” JAIC Is Applied AI – Focused on Impact.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Hire more non-Partner staff. – Hire more Partners. For a VC fund to be actively engaged in a large number of investments, it needs to hire more Partners to sit on more boards. If you’re thinking of hiring a Partner, I suggest see How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). This Panel will explore issues such as: How can companies best utilize social networking media? He was raised and educated in London.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

If you are surfing online in search of a perfect job, you cannot afford to keep your internet unencrypted. Unencrypted internet will allow cybercriminals to view your online activities and gain access to your sensitive, private data. In other words, you will remain at high risk of falling prey to cybercrime. Conclusion.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Of course this is Survivor Bias at it’s finest; these examples don’t prove this is a great strategy , they just illustrate that it can work: Zappos decided to sell shoes over the Internet, even though it meant eating shipping costs as customers tried shoe after shoe, constantly returning merchandise on the basis of fit or look.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

How to Hire in Chicago – [link]. Good to see innovation in delivering internet access to Africa (using voice control) – [link]. With increasing numbers of mobile apps, IP theft is becoming more common – [link]. Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design – [link].

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Transformify

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can hire rare talents, fill in roles quickly and benefit from lower rent outside of the big cities. Make sure that the rights and obligations are clearly defined especially when it comes to intellectual property rights (IP), deliverables and deadlines. Intellectual Property Rights (IP). Security and IP. Time Tracking.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Hire Freelancers and Contract Employees. The most logical place to start thinking about technology is in the area of Internet and phone connections. The best way to make this happen without blowing all your money on expert consultants is to hire expert employees. Evaluate Periodically.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2015

On the other end reside the botnet-for-hire “services”; a sort of outsourcing where the beneficiary to the crime wants to keep costs low and attack lots of small victims. Reports from security experts indicate a growing involvement of compromised IoT (Internet of Things) devices. It is evidence to the agility of DDoS attackers.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

The post is a great one, and it raises something I've been thinking a bit about lately, which is whether the lean start-up approach to building start-ups can be applied to industries beyond Internet/software. The case studies will go beyond Internet/software start-ups in exploring how other sectors can apply lean start-up theory.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Fintech businesses have been thriving in Brazil in the last 10 years as more and more people have access to internet and cheap smartphones that give them access to mobile payment apps. India’s vast talent pool is of interest to many international businesses open to hiring remotely overseas. Its domestic economy expanded by 0.6%

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I am somewhat of an expert in this having created one of the first pioneering labs and incubators in the Internet era, from N AZ where the normal course of action was to prove lean ventures with our retirement only to see them copied by deeper pockets on the coasts when we went searching for capital. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., The video game and Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality industry actively hire for people with design, screenwriting, and other visual arts skills. the world’s largest country, Facebook).

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Like a Spotify for books, 24symbols is a service to read digital books, on any Internet-enabled device, based on a subscription model. A p2p service marketplace where people can hire locals to run small errands (e.g. In alphabetical order, the 18 startups presenting at Seedcamp today are: 24symbols ( 24symbols.com ).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Everybody was doing marketing blitzes, over-paying to steal the best staff, pimping out urban offices to the nines , and hiring in a frenzy.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

IP Location Tools. find/hire freelancers. hire low-cost international engineering talent. VWorker -Â find/hire freelancers. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. Xtranormal. Presentation tools. Login System.

Software Review 53

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

Then a great thing happened: people caught on, internet security caught up, and IP-based mitigation techniques that can identify and bounce these bots was widely adopted. Once they had that access, search engine impersonator bots were using it for DDoS attacks, spam, content theft, hacking and other malicious activities.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I started my first internet company while getting my MBA. I had taken classes on IP, first-mover advantage, etc. I hired a lawyer, and he gave us an NDA template and told us that anyone that had knowledge of our proprietary data had to sign it. If we werent careful about this, our IP claims would be worthless.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 7, 2014

Just to be clear, Reservationhop--the line jumping fake name reservation making most hated startup idea on the internet right now--is not a particularly good idea. - Totally illegal, but I don''t remember too many internet people questioning its ethics. IP masking FTW! It''s rather easily foiled by ID checking. - And no plugin!"

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

So it could be a sweeping turn, like a new product launch or, you know, refocusing your company, or it could be a minor turn like, uh, or a less sweeping turn like who you hire or who you fire or how you price your products. I mean I started, we didn't have the internet, you know, as one of our channels so to speak.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Patents are nice but… in a consumer Internet business, it’s most likely that you aren’t re-inventing the wheel. It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition. Patented Technology? Don’t raise just to get a salary or because you need to pay for servers.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. Goodpeople can fix bad ideas, but good ideas cant save bad people. This doesnt work well.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2016

Even from the outset, Pied Piper had problems related to IP, with the founder having to beg a local irrigation company for the rights to the company name. Given that Pied Piper is both a startup and a tech company, the frequency with which IP comes up isn’t surprising—over 90 percent of a startup’s value is in its intangible assets.

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Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property NDA 60

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent).

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Two things to note: first, crystal balls like this one populate the Internet and mine is no better or worse than the many others out there. 25% of a marketer’s capacity is a huge investment by any measure and outsourcing the effort starts to look attractive to many managers and many have hired outside consultants to help.

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Small Business Securities and Exchange Commission Social Media Startup 92

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. It was really the community who built that product.&# It is a stage that must be outgrown.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

You can’t afford to hire three developers to add features and bugs. Don’t use company property or Internet, ever - Another clause in most employment agreements is that anything you do physically at work, or on software and equipment owned by the company (e.g. You can’t answer emails during normal business hours.

Software Review 41

Software Review Startup Technical Review Mobile 41

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2017

But when you are thinking about writing a book, you’re thinking about what ideas you want to get out, what IP you have, what methodologies you have and you want to get out there because you know it’s good information. 6:04 and then I finally realised what I was doing and changed it mid-course.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. I was not in a city center, and so things like internet and reliable vehicles, all of those things were hard to come by at first. He was our IP attorney. And I lived in rural California.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I was developing a mesh network that I envisioned being useful in the developing world and for the internet of things. I felt like that was an opportunity to make even a bigger impact in providing more people with internet access was providing them with access to healthy food. That's how they can hire people. Progress was made.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Internet - $20-60/month. at 6:16 am Other costs I immediately thought of: if you have someone doing payroll for you, if you use quickbooks, and if you need to hire a bookkeeper. Smartest thing I have read on the internet all day, well done sir. #8 at 11:54 am i work for a internet marketing company. It adds up.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Hosting Salary 52

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Internet 1.0. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. How could anyone ever lie again if we could just check it out on the internet and find out the truth! And the new internet firms? We have to fix it before all things are connected to the internet.

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Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79