Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. If you want to scale sales, you hire more sales reps. In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment. 1) Enterprise Sales.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Why are you against hiring successful people?” It is a long story, but in summary, one general rule of mine is don’t hire or fund rich people. The challenge is building, maintaining, and distributing integrations for every pair-wise set of every version of every application in the world. The reason? It’s really frackin’ hard.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. If we hire people in other cities, we will simply use industry-standard COLA adjustments to set salaries in other cities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2019

You know, you hire an artist on Fiverr to do a cover for you. Maybe a hire someone on Fiverr to lay out the book for you so it looks a little bit better than what Word can do, and your business. If, you can build your house yourself or you could hire a general contractor. Dan Janal: Sure. It’s like a very long blog post.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Research & Development. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Copyright © 2000 inc.com. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. TECHNOLOGY. Technology.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. And Apple used the capacitive touch screen to develop a new paradigm for computing. Uber and Lyft blitzscaled. Sidecar didn’t.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million!

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Does the photo look like something taken on a mobile phone from 2000? Hire checkout trust signals to make it a secure gateway and partner with known payment facilitators because users are always skeptical about new companies. Look at your product photo and description. Does the description look as if it was written by a five-year-old?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. It required content sites to develop totally new content. Everybody and their mothers are coming into my offices proclaiming that their developing the latest iPhone App. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely. It was hard to use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2023

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. It’s a big reason why they move quickly. No, it’s a colossal failure.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve hired and built great teams. I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). In the last 15 years, the cost of production has gone down, distribution has gone mainstream.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Instead, look to various apps already developed that are building support in various communities. Shop owners should look to develop a system to increase their customer’s awareness of reasons to come back to the store.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Instead, look to various apps already developed that are building support in various communities. Shop owners should look to develop a system to increase their customer’s awareness of reasons to come back to the store.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Instead, look to various apps already developed that are building support in various communities. Shop owners should look to develop a system to increase their customer’s awareness of reasons to come back to the store.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2018

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US.

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

There are millions of chess players in the world, and I believe the vast majority of serious players know their ELO ranking and also know exactly what it means to be 1000, 1500, or 2000. How valuable would it be if we knew a forced ranking of every software developer in the world? We don’t even need to be that accurate.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

This week, we discuss the Bplans article, 12 Signs You Need to Hire a Manager. Listen: Show notes: 12 Signs You Need to Hire a Manager – (:31). Are there signs you shouldn’t hire one? Jonathan: “12 Signs, Me Need to Hire a Manager.” Tweet or email us with your answer. Email marketing: MailChimp.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

And then we also looked at our operations and said, "We have a footprint across the US that can produce and distribute millions of meals every week, fresh meals to 400 cities and towns at incredibly affordable prices given the way we have cost optimized our footprint and our program." And our customer base grew probably.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. So how do you do this?

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1817, David Ricardo published On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation where he expanded upon Smith’s work in developing the theory of Comparative Advantage. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The development of Azure and the shift to the cloud has propelled the company to new heights. We opened our office in London in 2000, followed a few years later by Bangalore. With the rise of remote working, companies will be pushed to look further afield to hire talent, which will result in challenging compliance issues.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Don’t skip this post because you’re not a Rails developer. Many Rails developers have not reacted to this news with the alacrity they should have. (See Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation. Posted on January 31, 2013.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2013

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2012

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

So about, this was like around 2000 ish, I think, or something like that. But, you know, if you're a small business, you know, you can't necessarily hire a third party. John Jantsch (21:56): You know, you mentioned obviously hybrid workplaces, distributed workplaces, you know, are, are certainly they've been going on for a long time.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

That also backfired on service development since we had to focus on current problems instead of adding new functionalities. One of the most overused startup words of 2010 was Pivot, but pivoting away from a bad product, a bad hire, a bad decision, etc quickly enough was cited as a reason for failure often. During this year they.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. DJVentureWire : Clinical Development News, Sept.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, I was really interested in programming, design development, but I didn't realize the kind of business aspect for a very, very long time. I think that's actually an incredible positive development. And my goal was that when vaccines were available, we will be using pop-ups as the kind of core vaccine distribution infrastructure.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I joined when there were around seven people there and ran business development there for a little over a year. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. Bates: Fantastic.

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