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28 Entrepreneur Share Their Goals for 2021

Hearpreneur

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. But we think there’s a deep vein of opportunities to help our existing customers and many more people manage and expand their professional network. Photo Credit: Ryan McEniff.

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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. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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Founder personalities and the “first-class man” theory of management

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all. Thank you.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web. If youre interested in contributing a case study for publication here, consider getting started by adding it to the Lean Startup Wiki case study section. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development.

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Even In Uncertainty Startups Need A Workplace Policy

YoungUpstarts

Hiring an HR specialist isn’t a line item in most seed funding pitches. Startups usually can’t justify hiring a non-revenue generating employee early on. There’s the sense that day-to-day activities and administrative duties can be managed by the founders. You want new hires up to speed quickly. Create an internal wiki.

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