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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | INSTIGATOR BLOG JUNE 18, 2010 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup If you’re applying to a web / graphic design job, look for information related to the work you’d be doing. Job interviews are meant to be conversations. The interviewer asks some questions and the interviewee does the same. It’s never a good sign when an interviewee doesn’t have any questions. have some concerns. | INSTIGATOR BLOG OCTOBER 5, 2010 A Postmortem Analysis of Standout Jobs We were doing a web demo. It’s been a number of months since I announced that we sold Standout Jobs. In that time I’ve gone through a myriad of emotions and cyclical arguments in my head about the entire process of starting Standout Jobs, running it and selling it. Investors do it too. Everyone fails. We were onto something. | | | | | |
| INSTIGATOR BLOG SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 Quiet and Boring: How to Build a Successful Startup There are millions of jobs out there scattered across the Web; Indeed did a very good job of aggregating them in one central place and making them accessible. A few days ago, Indeed (a job aggregator site) announced that they had been acquired by a Japanese company called Recruit Co Ltd. Nice and quiet. Head down for 8 years. Startups indee | INSTIGATOR BLOG APRIL 2, 2012 How To Design a Successful Interview Process for Hiring Top Talent It was a simple enough application, but it had a bunch of important “web” elements (login, user accounts, content management, etc.). (Powered by LaunchBit ). Most companies don’t have a serious, repeatable interviewing process for hiring. In my experience that’s not good enough. Reviewing Resumes. Every single one. | | INSTIGATOR BLOG FEBRUARY 2, 2011 How To Prioritize Feature Development After Launching an MVP I’d say this should be the case for any web application (B2B or B2C) … if tons of people show up, but they don’t stay and they don’t come back, why bother having them show up in the first place? Complexity for User - Complexity kills so many things, including a user’s experience with a web application. | | | | | | | |
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INSTIGATOR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010 8 Things to Look for When Hiring Startup Talent
If you’re hiring people for a Web startup then it makes sense to bring people in that understand the Web, regardless of the role you’re recruiting for. When initially sourcing, you don’t need to spend a ton of time reviewing people’s profiles, analyzing resumes, etc. You just find interesting people and connect. MORE >> -
INSTIGATOR BLOG | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2011  Small Features
It’s a button – you turn it on or off – and when it’s turned on, only the session owner can interact with the web page. (Powered by LaunchBit ) We often measure the “size” of a feature based on how hard it is to build (development time) and how hard it is to use (for end users.) Small features. Easy to use. MORE >> -
INSTIGATOR BLOG | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2010 Startup D.O.A
Business-to-consumer web apps, for example, can be hard to validate. How often have you seen startups go down the following road? couple people come up with an idea. They’re excited. Really, really excited. They get nervous about competition or people stealing their plans. So they get very hush hush. They start building something. MORE >> -
INSTIGATOR BLOG | MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2011  Lessons Learned Launching a Lean Startup Accelerator
Localmind is a mobile (and Web) platform for asking questions of people that are checked into locations. It was only Web-based. But given that it was Web-only, the volume of questions was low. Year One Labs is a Lean Startup accelerator. Since our launch we’ve co-created and invested in 5 startups (which was our target number). MORE >> -
INSTIGATOR BLOG | SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 2013 Enough Free Content
It’s not free to produce, but no one’s stopping you from publishing on the Web. I produce a fair amount of content, and I give most of it away for free. Plus it took over a year to write. And you don’t make any money from books (unless you sell an absolute s**t ton of them). That’s the crux of content marketing. MORE >>
- Device Addiction: How the iPad Changes the Way Kids Interact with Technology INSTIGATOR BLOG | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2010
- Hacking the Job Board INSTIGATOR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2010
- So You Want to Start a Startup Accelerator… INSTIGATOR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011
- Designing a Game Incubator INSTIGATOR BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2011
- A Week in the Life of a Parent-Entrepreneur INSTIGATOR BLOG | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012
- GoInstant is Hiring Web Developers and a Senior QA Engineer INSTIGATOR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2011
- The Future of the Web is Shared INSTIGATOR BLOG | MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2011
- Raising Financing: Convertible Debt vs. Equity INSTIGATOR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
- Hiring a Chief Editor for a New Montreal Tech Startup Site INSTIGATOR BLOG | SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2010
- Gaps in the Market INSTIGATOR BLOG | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2011
- Kill the Goddamn Buzzwords and Give Me a Use Case INSTIGATOR BLOG | FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2011
- Standout Jobs has been Acquired! INSTIGATOR BLOG | MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
- The Risks and Rewards of Delighting Users (or Attempting To) INSTIGATOR BLOG | MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2011
- Finding Your Startup’s One Thing INSTIGATOR BLOG | MONDAY, JULY 11, 2011
- Performance vs. Features — Which is More Important? INSTIGATOR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012
- The Challenging Pace of Lean Startup INSTIGATOR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011
- Announcing: NextMontreal.com – a News Site for Montreal Tech INSTIGATOR BLOG | THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010
- Rounded Corners, Wasted Time and Technical Burden INSTIGATOR BLOG | TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2010
- GoInstant To Be Acquired by Salesforce INSTIGATOR BLOG | TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2012
- Interrupt Users and Increase their Adoption and Engagement INSTIGATOR BLOG | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011
- Take Advantage of Users for Their Benefit and Yours INSTIGATOR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011
- Design Web Apps With a Scalpel Not a Hammer INSTIGATOR BLOG | FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 2010
- Launching Year One Labs – An Early Stage Seed Accelerator INSTIGATOR BLOG | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2010
- Removing the Stigma Around Early Exits INSTIGATOR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2010
- Why I Blog INSTIGATOR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2012
- What Should I Write About? You Tell Me! INSTIGATOR BLOG | MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2010
- Introducing NextMontreal – A Tech News Hub for Montreal INSTIGATOR BLOG | TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2010
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John Morris