1998 Hiring Naming PR 
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. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names.
Hearpreneur
MAY 29, 2016
What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I started thinking about my company’s name by being honest about the criticism in my industry. 1 – Clear Company Value.
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David Teten
MARCH 24, 2014
Teten : No one ever got fired for hiring Och-Ziff, or any other of the massive hedge funds. Teten : As a thought experiment, imagine a quant pure black box hedge fund, “UltraQuant,” which hires a lot of impressive PhDs. We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002. Chernick : A big allocator cannot choose index funds.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 19, 2015
I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down. That’s it.
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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