Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

My general advice is to go join a startup as an employee, and learn from experience. When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I encourage my employees to work lifestyle hours that allow them to be whole people while also growing their careers and growing the business. The commitment I have to the happiness of my employees is reflected in their commitment to building the business of RPR. It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available.

Entrepreneur 128

Entrepreneur South Africa PR Thailand 128

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Shechtman, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1941, had previously been awarded the Israel Prize in Physics in 1998 and the Wolf Prize in Physics a year later. Chipmaker Intel Corp has agreed to acquire mobile navigation software maker Telmap. Herzliya-based Telmap has 210 employees. INTEL BUYS ISRAELI MOBILE NAVIGATION FIRM TELMAP.

Argentina 90

Argentina Paraguay Uruguay 90

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Precept Software, another of her startups, was bought by Cisco just prior to the company's stock price run-up, "so we had a great outcome for our investors.".

CTO Hire 118

CTO Hire Startup Algorithm Leadership 118

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2020

A software approach. Finally, there’s the software solution which often includes more than one feature. But this will depend on which software you choose. This includes how your business goes about upholding the freedom and privacy of all data subjects (usually your customers, clients or employees).

Intellectual Property 147

Intellectual Property Early Stage Security Software 147

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

This is finally happening because the boom of 1998-01 means that many funds are reaching the maturity of their 10-year funds [strangely, 10-year funds usually last about 13 years!]. You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.]

LP 311

LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. In a startup cash is king.

United States 114

United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As CEO, Jack lead the company through robust growth in its initial 18 months to 750 employees, 22 offices nationwide, producing $350 million per month in mortgages, and its first 3 years the company reported profits of $42 million. Xero – Accounting software with all the time-saving tools you need to grow your business.

Customer 79

Customer CPA Boston California 79

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. But it turned outthey didnt like us, because our software was easy to use and we hostedthe site. Thats nonsense.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

As a boon to the Israeli market’s future stability, the Bank of Israel approved a new law that specifies price stability as the central bank’s primary goal, forms a board of directors with a majority of members who are not bank employees, and creates a six-member committee to set interest rates. and was founded in 1998.

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

However, Jobs became less of a jerk after three children by his second wife came into his life between the years of 1991 and 1998. Pay your employees. The cliche goes, “you get what you pay for,” and in the field of computer software, Jobs believed this was absolutely true when it came to who he hired and kept on at his companies.

China 250

China Cofounder Audience Reputation 250

David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

And every process is in employees’ heads, yet so much of the process could be simplified, and much could be automated. Addepar is precisely trying to collect and convert into software these best practices. (ff We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002. It was a nutty thing to do at the time.

Software Review 114

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

During the early stages of blitzscaling—the Family (1-9 employees) and Tribe (10-99 employees) stages—it’s easier to take risks. This transition can be challenging; founders and early employees often resist changing their approach; after all, didn’t it bring initial success? Ethical vs. criminal pirates.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Early Stage Software Review Employee 36

Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. My own personal story fits in with this narrative.

Boston 206

Boston Internet Entrepreneur .Net 206

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

While Google was better than most companies through its 20% program (which Quartz documented the demise of a few months ago) – in which employees were encouraged to spend 20% of their time working on “blue sky” projects, it has grown into a large public entity that takes more time to innovate.

Silicon Valley 94

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Acquisition 94

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

Technical Cofounder 42

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. In the world of HR the hope is that gaming will help keep employees engaged and provide new analytical tools. PubG alone has generated over $1 Billion in revenues in 2019.

Global 131

Global Revenue Mobile IP 131

Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

Remarks to the Visionary Companies Conference, Billings, MT May 27, 2010 It’s a fact that all net job creation since the 1980s has come    with under 100 employees. In brief, my own story involves a software company called RTMS in Milwaukee.   The company grew to 250 employees in two states.

Bootstrapping 60

Bootstrapping Startup America Employee 60

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. So where does Salesforces profitability stands today compared to the most successful on premise public software companies? traditional software is like cocaine--youre hooked. Labels: SaaS , software.

Software Review 48

Software Review Software Technical Review Cloud 48

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Paris, November 1998. we started to tackle the plant food service where the 2,000 employees had their daily lunch. software. (10). Software 2.0: Cracking The Code. Saturday, December 09, 2006.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Venture Capital 48

www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear. About Eric.

Hiring 40

Hiring Software Review Coder Illinois 40

ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

To do so, they reached out to Mercenta (a retargeting software company) to help get more website visitors into their local Mazda dealerships by way of some smart PPC ads. Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative.

Campaign 48

Campaign PPC Audience eCommerce 48

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

For this discussion, we were joined by CEOs Jared Hecht of Fundera, Joshua Reeves of ZenPayroll, Matt Rissell of TSheets, and our own Sabrina Parsons of LivePlan and Palo Alto Software. After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. My name is John Bates. Thank you Jared. Sabrina Parsons: Yeah, thanks.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. In 1998 RIM quickly followed this up with a next generation product with an 8-line display, ran on AA batteries and would last 500 hours. Research in Motion (RIM). It was reliable.

Hockey Stick 275

Hockey Stick Customer Development Silicon Valley Networking 275

Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

market share and 1,000 global employees. In 1998, Multi National Underwriters was founded by two entrepreneurs and in 2002 was purchased by the Noel Group in partnership with the original owners. John Noel founded Travel Guard in his basement with a 0% market share. Two great entrepreneurial success stories.

America 67

America Global Demand Web 67

ConversionXL

JUNE 4, 2019

As Harvard Business School professor Susan Fournier noted in 1998 , “A brand has no objective existence at all: it is simply a collection of perceptions held in the mind of the consumer.”. Your mission, values, brand story, employees, and product/service itself. But you don’t control its interpretation. Brand communication.

Marketing 125

Marketing Audience Green Architecture 125

www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. It will probably involve writing some software, but fortunately we can do that.

Web 54

Web Startup Silicon Valley Technical Review 54

www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Instead, recruiters (or your employees through the referral program) will have to identify them, contact them, build a relationship, and eventually convince them to apply through direct sourcing. Primary sourcing: Employee referral program implementation. Common reason for failure: this step is often left to chance or is omitted.

Hiring 57

Hiring Metrics Search Widget 57

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. Back in 2005, I started Cellit, a company focused on helping companies communicate with their customers via text messages.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

There is lots of speculation around this, ranging from a repeat of the point above (that tech assets are traditionally growth assets and thus should return higher yields in an environment where investors are seeking high-yielding assets) to the view that Covid has significantly accelerated the “software is eating the world” trend.

IPO 36

IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I don’t actually have any employees. Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with. I’m about to show you a slide show. I’m the content creator. I don’t know. Audience: Okay.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. The largest tech employer, according to SFBT, is Salesforce.com with 4,000 employees as of January 2014 (an increase of a thousand from one year earlier).

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20