A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 13, 2015
The question is: How do you decide what role is most important to hire for? If I hire someone to do X, I’ll have time for Y and Z. Hire the best person for that role. Examples: You hire the VP of Engineering for Facebook. You hire a super-effective VP of Sales , would that 10x sales in the next 12 months? (If
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
But some decisions should not be made in haste, like a key executive hire , or how to price , or whether to raise money, or whether to invest millions of dollars in a new product line. How do you know when your current decision should be made slowly: contemplative, collaborative, deliberate, data-driven, even agonizing?
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
DECEMBER 21, 2009
More than that, knowing your "padding" as I used to call it is helpful in making decisions like "Can I afford to try this Risky Expensive Thing," such as making your first hire or trying a $20,000 media blitz. That's OK, that's not the point of this question.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Can you hire someone you’ve worked with before, or build something sustainable without hiring? For example, can you pick a large and growing market? Can you compete in a niche where incumbents don’t care or cannot move quickly?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 22, 2013
A great writer (content marketing, social media) versus 100 average bloggers. Now, if you understand this universal, timeless, human rule, you then realize you cannot afford to hire anyone less. Because they’ll come up with ideas and implementations that 100 others wouldn’t. This is approximately true everywhere.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
DECEMBER 16, 2014
the darlings of the news media, and this is not a path to finding good answers. “It’s not fair,” we all said to ourselves. That was before WhatsApp sold for 19 billion dollars, with 55 employees. You’re the captain of this ship , and you’re navigating your own waters. Don’t forget it.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
How to get hired at a startup and. Still, no matter which side of the table you're on, this is useful for your hiring process. Tags: Essays Guest Posts hiring investment strategy writing. I wrote up the full behind-the-scenes story. How to write a cover letter that actually gets read. WorkAwesome).
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