Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

A few months later the first mp3 search engines start to pop up. I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. Long story short, Inktomi acqui-hired me and my puny search engine software (not the site, which earned me some nice cash on the side from ads).

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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. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. At first, Google seemed like a bad idea; there were already several search engines doing what they did. Uber - an app that connects passengers with ridesharing services and drivers of vehicles for hire. Sold to Yahoo! The difference? They did it better.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Even among recruiting leaders, it’s common for them to realize that their hiring process is failing but be unaware of which steps in the process are causing the problem. There are three different FPI approaches that organizations can use to identify the key “failure points” in any hiring process. ™ All Articles. financials.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

Google is known as a data driven company – everything from its early hiring process to decision making shows its reliance on data. Steve Jobs famously said in a 1998 BusinessWeek interview: “It’s really hard to design products by focus group.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

PayPal, under the leadership of David Marcus and Bill Scott, re-defining and re-engineering itself by embracing Lean Startup to improve the product experience. My personal background was as an engineer and my companies had been Web-based startups, so that is what I wrote about. Startup blogging was hardly "cool" back then.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. Eric, what you've termed 'datablindness' seems to be a common affliction in fields which experience a sudden rise in the volume of data they have access to.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

Let’s start with a website that functions like a grant search engine. Applicants can receive up to $4,000 and must use the money for marketing, advertising, hiring employees, or expanding facilities. This grant was launched in 1998 by Womennet to help entrepreneurs succeed. Business USA. Amber Grant for Women.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

They raised $1.25b in an instant and that giant sucking sound you heard on Wall Street was LTC hiring the best and brightest minds to its hedge fund. LTC prided itself on hiring PhDs and other brilliant talent to add to the mystique of the group. There are other parallels-Google has an appetite for hiring PhDs.

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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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entrepreMusings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Hire a women venture partner. People hire, work with, and are attracted to people who are similar. UC-Berkeley’s AnnaLee Saxenian documented that 7% of tech companies started in 1980–1998 had an Indian founder. of the nation’s tech and engineering firms. from 1995 to 2005. census, in 2000 less than 0.7% of the U.S.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. His ability to lead large teams of engineers had made him one of the most influential executives at Microsoft and the world.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The purpose of hiring a management team is to solve the organization’s problems in a more scalable way. Page initially tried to run Google’s entire engineering department without management by having all 400 employees report directly to Wayne Rosing. It was an organization in complete, unrelenting chaos.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. As the volume of startups increases, big companies will start to develop standardized procedures that make acquisitions little more work than hiring someone. At Y Combinator we still only have four people, so we try to standardize everything.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

And this was at a prestigious engineering school. As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down. Although I had worked for many years before, had a degree and now a post-graduate certificate no one was hiring me. The professor would write on something that resembled a whiteboard.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. The deal went through, I bought the website, and eventually hired a team of writers.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. Ditto for Apple. But the world has changed.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the city’s tax break deal included provisions that encourage “good faith efforts” to hire locals, there is no binding agreement compelling Twitter to do so and, not surprisingly, the company appears reluctant to engage in the kind of substantial outreach that would prepare Mid-Market residents for entry-level positions in its workforce.

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