YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2015

If you have a good retention rate, you will not have to spend time hiring and training new employees, plus, the employees you have will continue to learn the business and be knowledgeable on ways to improve or enhance performance. Therefore, your employees will be invested in the company — if the company does will, they do well.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

I hired Kara as my legal intern in 2005 while I was working at a small firm doing workers comp and personal injury law. We started as a small consulting practice, focused on the hiring process and recruiting for our corporate clients. 11-Suggested by my partner’s husband. 22-Hired a trademark coach. 1- Our names.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. Instawork (*) is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers (professionals) and hospitality businesses (partners). Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Typically they’ll be working long hours while the company struggles to hire and train enough staff. This pressure often sucks companies into hiring the wrong people, just to get more bodies on staff. It’s tempting to seize your moment of popularity to keep on growing without doing proper screening or training of these partners.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Also the adage As hire As, Bs hire Cs—absolutely true—be careful of the company you keep, And what goes around comes around. My first IPO wasn’t until 1995—the VC business takes patience. My two best partners went off to start Benchmark Capital, very successful to this day, so my firm was going to blow up.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Chicago Cofounder 333

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. According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. American VCs are critical.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. It's the only always-equal partnership, and the only way you can have an always-equal partnership, where new people join as equal partners, is for the older partners to get out of the way when they're not as productive. That's not it at all.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

My partners at Greylock and I have invested in a number of young founding CEOs who match this pattern and are doing a fantastic job leading their companies through hypergrowth, such as Brian Chesky of AirBnB and Drew Houston of Dropbox. Couldn’t we just hire a COO and have you stay as CEO?”. James and Jeff had worked together at Yahoo!,

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

You’ve come full cycle from vision, to hiring some people, raising some cash, arguing about direction, setting a release date, missing a release date, feeling like you’ve effed everything up, regrouping, rethinking, getting back on track and then setting your baby loose into the wild. But not for the faint hearted.&#.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Second, and full disclosure, I’ve invested in a few of these funds ; and third my teaching partner Ann Miura-Ko is a partner in one of these funds. One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. But in reality they only became mainstream ~5-7 years ago.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Several of the stops were regularly hang outs of mine between 1983 and 1995 most notably #10 (Miracle of Science) and #11 (Toscanini’s) but also including #5 (MIT Media Lab), #6 (Muddy Charles Pub), #7 (MIT Lobby 7), and #8 (Central Square and the Necco Factory – back when they made Necco wafers.).

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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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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

When I began practicing law I was hired by a firm where billable hours and collected fees were the only considerations for advancement. Soon, I had more work than I could handle, and had to hire another attorney and staff member. When I met my co-founder and partner, we inspired each other to take a chance and start our own business.

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Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

I started working in 1995 at the age of 15 in the mailroom at Waterhouse Securities (which became TD Waterhouse) at 100 Wall Street. Back to Fred--he became a partner at a VC firm after apprenticing there 7 years. He was 36 when he started his own fund, Flatiron Partners. Twenty years ago, I got my first job.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

You’ve come full cycle from vision, to hiring some people, raising some cash, arguing about direction, setting a release date, missing a release date, feeling like you’ve effed everything up, regrouping, rethinking, getting back on track and then setting your baby loose into the wild. But not for the faint hearted.&#.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. Some 92% of job growth comes after a company goes public - which makes sense, because a company acquires public capital in order to hire people. was created by firms less than five years old.

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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 went on to HBS and McKinsey after the SEALs and then started his own hedge fund with a partner, so he had an interesting, multi-faceted perspective. The discussion was wide-ranging and entertaining.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. He also had backing from well-known venture capital investors like Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and even Richard Branson.

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entrepreMusings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

5) A magnetic personality – to attract talent, partners, investors, etc. Hire a women venture partner. People hire, work with, and are attracted to people who are similar. from 1995 to 2005. 2) Confidence (I actually think arrogant people are some of the least self-assured people I know but I digress).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

I ran the group from 1995 through 2002, which was an incredibly exciting period of time, during which time the so-called cocktails developed. I have a brilliant partner named Natasha Martin who doesn't actually use modeling. So we've gotten to a plan using mathematical modeling.

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