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.

Startup 418

Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Onboarding a new remote developer is arguably one of the most important things you can add to your core competencies if you want to assure your new hires’ success. Today, with COVID-19 making every new hire remote, excellence in onboarding has become even more crucial. Daily scheduling and communications policies are loose or absent.

Engineer 150

Engineer Software Review Hiring Development Team Review 150

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. . Sophisticated VC and private equity funds have a wide array of options for leveraging outside operating executives.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If you are a entrepreneur in Colorado who is working on something related to the Internet, please consider signing the following letter to Senator Udall and Senator Bennet opposing the Protect IP (PIPA) Act. This success story rests on an architecture—both technical and legal—that has allowed for innovation without permission.

Colorado 150

Colorado Internet Intellectual Property United States 150

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2016

Typically, the first few key hires in IT are ones that will help “keep the lights on,” deal with password lock-outs and provision and configure network services and company laptops. Hiring junior, or less experienced employees and keeping them once they are trained is a big challenge.

Differentiation 100

Differentiation Security Intellectual Property Non-Compete 100

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Let’s look at some specifics: 1.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

New York 116

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 116

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

HBS Professor Tom Eisenmann is creating a course next spring on "Launching Technology Ventures" where he is going to delve into lean start-ups, finding product-market fit, what are the key start-up activities before product-market fit and what are the most important activities afterwards, and other salient topics. of the product.

Venture Capital 37

Venture Capital Lean Technical Review Software Review 37

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Competing businesses.

PPC 121

PPC IP Idaho Non-Compete 121

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link. The technical side is fairly easy, and many people could do it.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Everybody was doing marketing blitzes, over-paying to steal the best staff, pimping out urban offices to the nines , and hiring in a frenzy. Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. Everybody was raising a shit-ton of money. The things that always differentiated Accenture?

Turkey 302

Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Its great that were in such a fertile phase for the tech industry that lots of people have new ideas, and Im very flattered that people value my input or ideas enough to want to share their projects with me. I have to pay a lawyer to review a document without having any idea why Im making that investment. But signing an NDA ?

NDA 52

NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The tech world has seen a shift away from Silicon Valley, with Israel now dominating the world’s startup economy. Information Age mentions that the tech sector provides the backbone for the country’s economy. Israel’s tech sector and ecosystem has led to innovation on an unprecedented scale. Wage Inflation.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review Global Startup 90

Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It covers which innovations you select to give patent protection to, which markets you want to protect patents, who you hire to prepare your patent applications, etc. Hire a skilled patent attorney. That specifically applies to who you hire to draft and submit your patent application. Don’t do it.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Portfolio Startup Intellectual Property 88

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Thus, as your startup matures, many of your operational functions can be successfully outsourced. At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. Their story, market positioning, products, etc. Pyramid Power.

Equity 40

Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 40

venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

You can’t afford to hire three developers to add features and bugs. I know, you really really want to ignore me and operate in secret. You want to sneak in some tech support emails during the day, so you use a cocktail of Anonymizer plus GMail-over-SSL to confound the network admin. You have to work in fits and spurts.

Software Review 41

Software Review Startup Technical Review Mobile 41

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Marketing and sales worked to define an ideal customer profile (ICP) , with several defining factors including: Currently using a data warehouse solution; Has a defined strategy to move to cloud-based operations; Has existing cloud-based solutions from competitor companies. Which are interacting with you at trade shows? If not, they drop out.

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

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.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

SBA 124

SBA Technical Review Startup 124

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! But if you watch weeds at all, if you see what they do, if you see how they operate, then you can certainly, you can certainly see that there is some presence there that looks like a mindset because they're aggressive and resilient and adaptive. StuHeinecke.com. Like this show?

Technical Review 77

Technical Review Naming Networking Washington 77

Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

I frequently see promising startups with a great product and strong initial economics hit a wall due to the piling up of problems relating to these questions, or what I like to call the ‘DTC death by a thousand cuts’. Bloggers are especially valuable in the early days when consumers are looking for actual reviews that are searchable.

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

Most people I think at least in the technology community know you as the inventor of Soylent and the company by the same name. It seemed like it was a field that was held back a lot mostly by people misunderstanding the technology or sloppy use of the technology. The technology is called, "Lateral flow assay."

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Need creative inspiration or client overflow help without hiring? Technically, a “font” is a computer file or program (when used digitally) that informs your printer or display how a letter or character is supposed to be shown. Review the agreements carefully when in doubt. Master work overflow. Does the U.S.

Intellectual Property 108

Intellectual Property Design Marketing Software Review 108

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to the Smart Bear Live producer, Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com , to schedule a recording with Jason. There’s just stuff, and they’re not technical.

API 220

API Software Review Hosting Technical Review 220

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. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

If someone asked whether or not your business has Intellectual Property (IP) and your answer is “I do not know” or “I doubt it,” you are not alone. Furthermore, solo inventors or creators generally wear all the hats and adopt the DIY mode of operation without consulting anyone. IP is a not just a legal issue.

Intellectual Property 109

Intellectual Property IP Technical Review Software Review 109

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Whether you decide to build or buy, the technology you adopt must align with your business goals. The problem your new software or technology will solve. The skills, technology, or experience to build in-house are lacking. But no-code software can come with the added cost of technical debt. You need full control.

Software Review 96

Software Review Technical Review Software Acquisition 96

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. IP Location Tools. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Seed Startups.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

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. peer review is NOT working. It was really the community who built that product.&#

Community 158

Community Management Lean Software Review 158