2 2001 Cost Hiring Management 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
He just hired Meg Whitman. It’s an almost $2-billion-dollar bet based on a set of hypotheses. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff.
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 6, 2014
Hire for hustle. A great way to separate the entrepreneurial thinkers from those who aren’t is to place a special emphasis on hiring people with a sense of urgency; people who can and will move quickly; people who don’t always have to be told what their next step should be. This will tell you volumes. Don’t skimp on training.
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. A focus on cost cutting—every decision is viewed through a loss-minimization lens. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 7, 2014
We recommend it, because meetings provide an opportunity for management to highlight people who have demonstrated good accountability, as well as to show where things went wrong and what could have been done better. Hire accountable people. Of course, hiring an employee and then training him to be accountable is possible.
BeyondVC
JANUARY 3, 2019
Truly amazing that all of these companies went from slide deck to B in approximately 3 1/2 years. In 2019, we’ll be doubling down on this effort as we are hiring a GM for our CXO Advisory Board & Network ( job description here ). Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned.
Up and Running
AUGUST 1, 2016
Here are 26 businesses that you can start virtually free (and those that aren’t completely free are quite low-cost). While not a new concept, monetized blogging is always a popular option for an essentially no-cost business. Maybe you’ve worked as a hiring manager for years, and you know exactly what employers are looking for.
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