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. Gen-Y’s have a fundamentally different attitude toward work.

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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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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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Cracking the Code

MAY 29, 2019

A CEO has to manage issues of strategy, culture, talent, customer service and reputation – often all at once. John : As a CEO (and/or founder), you have four areas of responsibility; Strategy and vision, management team, culture and the communication of all of the above. I can guarantee you the results will not be tight.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hire a CEO to Go Public. A founder’s lack of credibility/experience in growing and managing a large company hindered a company that wanted to go public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Zoom has successfully managed to systematize the entire process, which has enabled individuals to boost their utilization of online meetings in order to continue their occupations from home even in the face of a pandemic. Amazon's hiring strategy is one perfect example of innovation. I admire them the most when it comes to innovation.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. Who flourishes? What a mistake!

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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. The management team wasn’t strong enough. But not for the faint hearted.&#.

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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? Heike Young, Salesforce’s Industry Strategy & Insights Manager, explains : They may all look young. Gen Z is equally as likely to become your competition as they are to become your employee. Your Take-Away.

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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? Heike Young, Salesforce’s Industry Strategy & Insights Manager, explains : They may all look young. Gen Z is equally as likely to become your competition as they are to become your employee. Your Take-Away.

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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. I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name 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. The management team wasn’t strong enough. But not for the faint hearted.&#.

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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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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Peter Laughter and is the CEO of Wall Street Services where they allow Management Consulting Firms and Program Managers at Investment Banks take on projects that are beyond their capacity. Management consulting firms are designed to find specialized people quickly. Hire fantastic people. Show Quotes.

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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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Maclendon is a multi-family office wealth management practice. We manage money for entrepreneurially minded families. Office, Maclendon Wealth Management ! #9 We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. Thanks to Roger Wu, Cooperatize ! #8

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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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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. But they’ve got to work like one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. Wealthfront , which began as an automated investment management service and has since expanded into banking (it currently offers one of the highest interest rates on FDIC-insured cash accounts), now manages almost $15 billion in assets. Most hedge.

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