YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2015

Data is moved, updated, or maintained by repetitive processes that are done manually, squandering time and employee-resources. Anything that a human performs with a mouse and a keyboard can be automated by Foxtrot, the “digital employee,” freeing up employees’ time to perform other business-related tasks.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

One Infosysian, as the company’s employees are called in India’s tech circles, however pointed us someplace beyond all these voices. A lot of people joined the industry from 1995-96.”. As India’s IT sector boomed and so did its companies, these new hires grew too, making IT the hottest career choice at the turn of the century.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

When Pixar released Toy Story in 1995, Jobs understood that audiences weren’t interested in the process or technological tools that make up the Pixar animation system. Pay your employees. The secret to my success,” Jobs said in 1995, “is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.”

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

billion, plans to add Provigent’s employees to its Israeli R&D center. Barclays Capital is opening a financial technology research and development center in Israel and plans to hire up to 200 people. Unemployment fell to 6.1% in January, as the number of Israelis out of work dropped to 189,300.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The company, Danatec, sold paper-based course materials for corporate trainers to use in safety training of employees. Your business success is influenced by many different types of people: prospects, customers, employees, funders, suppliers, distributors and even the public at large. Growth also strains employees physically.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

By definition, Gen-Y is the generation born between 1977 and 1995 (synonymous with Millennials). At the other end of this thought spectrum is Jason Ryan Dorsey, who last year published “ Y-Size Your Business ,” on how Gen-Y employees can save you money and grow your business.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Microsoft did not open a Washington office until 1995. They hire local employees or family. They hire the best and the brightest. It wasn’t until Fairchild and Intel were almost bankrupted by Japanese semiconductor manufacturers in the early 1980’s that they formed Silicon Valley’s first lobbying group.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2012

Organizations preoccupied with short-term, bottom line thinking often view their employees as little more than resources to be hired, fired, and manipulated as the need arises. Well-informed employees are more eager and better prepared to participate. Where possible, have employees work together on certain tasks.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Peter joined Wall Street Services in 1995, driven by a passion for helping others identify barriers and self-limiting beliefs standing in the way of a fulfilling career. I charge my clients a bill rate that is higher than what I pay my employees (typically about 40 – 50% over employee salaries). Hire fantastic people.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

I speak from personal experience, since I hired and partnered with a CEO, Jeff Weiner, very successfully at LinkedIn five years after co-founding the company. All of a sudden, you need to focus on a different set of challenges and concerns like establishing standard procedures and managing a large number of employees.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

To help with the growing work load at the lab, she has subsequently hired her son and daughter to work with her. In January of 1995, Miller opened the doors to Miller Paper Company and started with $300K in savings and 15 employees. Colonel Harland Sanders, Age 90 d.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. I thought, "Oh, I'll start it as a hobby, and if it turns into something, I'll hire a CEO. Because venture capitalists hire people with operating backgrounds, people think that that means that they value the operating skill. That's not it at all.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 29, 2019

At VivaTech last week, we got an insight into the first-hand experience of John Chambers who was CEO and Chairman of Cisco from 1995-2017, and who now invests in early-stage tech start-ups around the world, with a particular focus on mentoring emerging leaders. They were likely not the right hire, and you should both move on quickly.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Eighty-two percent have global offices, and yet 91% are still run by Israeli CEOs, as opposed to foreign executives hired from the outside. In the old model of Israeli startups, many Israeli executive teams would hire a vice president of sales in the U.S. American VCs are critical. The founders have started companies before.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

The babysitter my father hired had a highly effective technique for placating young boys, which was to let them slay monsters and win treasure in a fantasy world. Catan, published in 1995, became an international hit, and popularized the German game genre throughout the world, including in America. GAME #2: RUNEQUEST.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

While few agree on exactly where the cut-off between Millennials and Generation Z is , (is it 1995? If you’re a business owner or manager, you’ll need to figure out what these new employees will be looking for and how to get the most out of your working relationship with them. Your Take-Away. And they know it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

While few agree on exactly where the cut-off between Millennials and Generation Z is , (is it 1995? If you’re a business owner or manager, you’ll need to figure out what these new employees will be looking for and how to get the most out of your working relationship with them. Your Take-Away. And they know it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. When I began practicing law I was hired by a firm where billable hours and collected fees were the only considerations for advancement.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 13, 2011

One of my portfolio company CEOs, Will Tumulty of Ready Financial , is a former Navy SEAL (1990-1995). Brendan emphasized the importance of training and practice in all areas - employee onboarding, management practices, etc. One CEO objected that he had 1000 employees in his company and couldn't possibly hire all "A's".

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. We were bootstrapping the company’s funding, so we could not afford to hire a firm to help us come up with a company name. He hired my new firm to get more media attention. 12 – A Friend Helped. #19

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

The Grateful Dead is the one I’m most interested in because I started going to Grateful Dead concerts when I was 17, and I’ve been now to 75 Grateful Dead concerts, or the bands that followed the Grateful Dead with original members of the Grateful Dead because Jerry Garcia died in 1995. So that passion becomes infectious.

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