Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.
Software By Rob
MAY 4, 2009
As a developer you have the ability to build/hire out/buy applications and websites, where the margin is huge and you have something unique. Whether you’re selling invoicing software or performance management software your gross margin is going to be close to 100%.
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Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 17, 2024
16:53] As a consultancy with a few clients how does one determine their first hire in order to scale? [18:22] No, not 19 2006, not 1996, 2006. I like working with software developers. What's my first hire? But beyond that, you need to hire a money person, C-O-C-A-O, whether it's part-time or full-time.
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.
Ben's Blog
APRIL 28, 2010
Salmon points out that “not a single one of the 12 [candidates] is a CEO who was hired to run a company by its board of directors.”. But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M.
infochachkie.com
DECEMBER 5, 2011
As noted in Beware The Consultant , such pay-for-hire charlatans barter their time for your money – the more time they trade with you, the more of your money they take. Microsoft – Initially descriptive of the company’s software developed for the “micro” computer market, which eventually evolved into the “personal” computer market.
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