SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

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Intellectual Property 175

Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. Not to mention every major agency, many PR firms, etc. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. But who else is going to get out there and close your big biz dev deals with you? Seattle has its patrons.

Seattle 317

Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

It is incumbent on management to create and sustain an environment that leads to hiring, encourages quality work, rewards effort and accomplishment, treats workers fairly, pays an equitable wage, provides for basic welfare, respects families, supplies adequate work flexibility, and, importantly, celebrates the work itself. Thanks, Dylan!

Bosnia 67

Bosnia Software Engineering Cambodia San Francisco 67

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. I’m definitely not lobbying here for promising things you can’t deliver, or hiring a publicist before your first programmer.

Public Relations 226

Public Relations Elevator Pitch Startup IP 226

Gust

JULY 22, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. I’m definitely not lobbying here for promising things you can’t deliver, or hiring a publicist before your first programmer.

Elevator Pitch 158

Elevator Pitch Startup IP Public Relations 158

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

How to Hire in Chicago – [link]. With increasing numbers of mobile apps, IP theft is becoming more common – [link]. Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Nurturing Wisdom – [link]. The Top 20 VC Power Bloggers Of 2010 – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The newly formed teams then work for the entire weekend, with the help of some experienced mentors from the industry, who volunteer their time to share advice on product, technology, legal, PR and other issues. It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition. Who to raise from?

Elevator Pitch 102

Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Consultant.

Equity 40

Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 40

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.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property NDA 60

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

The idea is to build a hit that would make the founder(s) an appealing and quick talent acquisition (sometimes referred to as an acq-hire). Lastly, large companies that seek new talent will likely hire promising individuals through a small exit. This should also help valorize you in a acq-hire scenario. The focus is on building.

Lean 144

Lean Startup Agile Coder 144

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Nice going NYC government PR machine. Two of the recent Ultra Light Startup events--one about PR and the other about legal help--had copycat programs run by the city itself. Why not just pay Graham Lawler directly do to this and spend the city's PR capital on supporting Ultra Light, versus going head to head with him?

Government 97

Government New York City New York San Diego 97

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.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

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. Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread?

Community 158

Community Management Lean Software Review 158

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2022

I love trees so, you know, a lot of times I kinda laugh and say, weeds are just flowers with bad PR firms. Or dreamed about automating routine tasks like following up with marketing leads or cross-posting on social channels—without having to hire a developer to build something for you? John Jantsch (02:50): You know, it's funny.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Naming Networking Washington 76

Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. While this may seem obvious to anyone not in sales and marketing, trust me, in a technology company this is a conceptual breakthrough.

Silicon Valley 126

Silicon Valley RSS Non-Compete California 126

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Innocent on the other hand clearly understands Conversational Marketing (they are a small company, not yet corporatized I suspect, and likely deal with a smaller combination of lawyers/PR types/Social Media Gurus/Agencies – a sad likely bane on Tide's existence). Did you earn any profit?

Metrics 166

Metrics Marketing Search SEO 166