Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the Lean Startup, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. They then buy stock in these public companies and attempt to convince management to increase the price of the shares.

Institutional Investors 233

Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 233

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 16, 2018

In the world of HR, one of the biggest battles is finding and hiring exceptional employees. Telecommuting (or at least the option of it in certain situations) makes your company much more enticing to a talented employee. This software has remarkable technology that saves your employees from wasting time on tedious or repetitive tasks.

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Management Salary Software Employee 138

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

Today’s enterprise IT organizations are once again experiencing a massive upheaval due to pressure from employee forces. Just think of the turmoil caused by the dawning of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era, with employees demanding to use their beloved, personal mobile phones or tablets for work. It’s a familiar story.

Government 113

Government Technical Review Asia Japan 113

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Employees pay attention to what you do , not what you say. So when you or other higher-level leaders ignore the company’s values, department managers think they can behave that way too. Meanwhile, employees will think they can ignore important change initiatives because management gets to ignore them. They’ll leave.

Leadership 185

Leadership Employee Early Stage Naming 185

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious management attention and/or resources. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. The result?

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious management attention and/or resources. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. The result?

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2017

A Mobile Document Management Software is an affordable, efficient, and modern way to take control of all your document management needs. With a Mobile Document Management solutions, you don’t have to haul an entire filing cabinet when you go out to meet a client, so you’ll always have the documents you need when you need them.

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Mobile Management SEC Flash 113

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

More than ever before, companies must be ready to replace employees at a moment’s notice. days in 2001-2003. days in 2001-2003. Glassdoor reported that 84% of employees would consider leaving their current jobs if offered another role with a company that had an excellent corporate reputation.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence B2B Reputation Hiring 113

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2015

These are management, sales and marketing, customer service, production/manufacturing, operations and safety. Employee safety is a significant part of daily business operations. For example, employers must consider employees’ safety in sales and marketing when travel is required. The Startup Mode and Employee Safety.

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Employee Startup Texas Social Media 100

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Home document management software is a tool that can turn niche employees like consultants, freelancers, and independent contractors into powerful, market-disrupting professionals. Home Document Management Software as the Organization Facilitator. by Jesse Wood, CEO of eFileCabinet.

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Software Management Security Demand 147

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I always say that it takes 18 months to un-train a big company employee from their bad habits when they join a startup. We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2014

Fewer than a dozen if you can manage. Sinyard hires only employees who love biking and watches to see who does lunchtime group rides to separate the “talkers” from the “riders.” For instance, all employees want a chance to be respected, to be challenged, and to grow. This advice has been borne out by numerous business leaders.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Cofounder Lean 164

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. And it may work.

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). This is minutes 8-11.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

A robust document management system (DMS) that takes care of tedious tasks for you, while ushering your office into the digital age with an entirely paperless workflow. Here we explore how a document management system makes this automated workflow happen, and a few of the key benefits this remarkable office asset offers. Manager name.

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Metadata Management Security Software 124

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2014

Yet you know if you don’t start holding yourself and your employees accountable for these little things, they’ll eventually lead to bigger, more damaging sins. You can post core values on the company website and remind your employees about them via the company newsletter until you’re blue in the face. Regularly meet up and talk it out.

Leadership 145

Leadership Employee Metrics Hiring 145

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2015

When I get coffee with another entrepreneur, I almost always learn something important about my market or get tips for solving business challenges such as managing employees, organizing work or even fundraising. Farbood is a former educator who was named 2001 National Teacher of the Year by the Princeton Review.

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Software Review Leadership Restful Design 100

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. Managers can defy old mind-sets and creatively search for superior solutions. Managing the means of production to fit the circumstances.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

They make terrible employees. Why do job hoppers make such bad employees at startups? -. And as you know it is completely all consuming to find great new employees. When my company hit the fan in 2001 I could have easily walked and gotten a better paying job. And I care more about the debate than trying to be popular.

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Hiring Employee Vesting Silicon Valley 392

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

If a business is to keep its data, info, and records recoverable, paperless document management software is the best option. Even when the financial consequences of natural disaster are subtracted from the equation, document management software remains more cost-effective in the long run. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc.

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Retention Bandwidth Cloud Software 153

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 12, 2023

Robert is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency, and the recipient of numerous industry and company culture awards, including Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards two years in a row. I see way too many leaders managed to the exception. I don't think that's the case.

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Leadership Framework Analytics Audio 78

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2018

Some companies do it because they’re afraid that making a change will disrupt the flow of business, others don’t want to retrain everyone and a few tell themselves that physical documents are more secure than an online document management system. The Security of a Cloud-Based Document Management System.

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Security Cloud Networking Employee 145

Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

CEOs and employees work tirelessly to develop creative narratives that help them avoid dealing with the obvious facts. She left, but we were going to fire her, or give her a bad performance review” – High tech companies tend to track employee attrition in three categories: People who quit. ’Cause right now you’re just a liar.

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Technical Review Churn Rate Engineer Employee 78

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

In terms of TVPI, the total value to paid-in ratio used by fund managers to evaluate a fund’s performance, the median dropped 3.5% this year in comparison to the previous one, the third-highest decline seen in recent times behind the global financial crisis’ 7.8% drop and dot-com crash’s 15.7% It cites 3 reasons for that: 1.

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Venture Capital Valuation Private Equity LP 167

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. Millennium Management and Balyasny Asset Management were his employers at some point. This year, Goldman Sachs agreed to give his company $250 million in investments to manage. Jason Guss.

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Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 141

Board Effect

APRIL 5, 2022

A couple of decades ago, in 2001, just over 3.5 Challenge your managers and other leaders to improve retention. Consider allowing employees to work at home or create a hybrid work policy—build-in opportunities for flexibility. Trust your employees. Involve employees in your nonprofit’s mission.

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Retention Texas New York Employee 98

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. But many of today’s billion dollar venture firms invest in four-person startups as well as pre-IPO startups with thousands of employees. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing.

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Harvest Vertical IPO Early Stage 60

BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies. Google also unveiled plans to double its NYC employee base to 14k. Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

The owner was not equipped to manage people. 3 – Google Regional Sales Manager. Before starting Badger, I worked at Google as Regional Sales Manager. They really care about their employees, and have enough money to buy a fair amount of happiness. Sales Account Manager. Thanks to Natalie Harper, Harper PR. #3

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2014

Remember that time when one of your peers was throwing his weight around and bullying one of his employees? They assume you’re the same kind of person as the manager yelling at his employees. It just makes you seem as though you believe you are above the law. Ignoring others’ bad behavior. Don’t be guilty by association.

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Reputation Finder Leadership Email 154

Babbling VC

AUGUST 10, 2011

I am seriously babbling like everyone else did in 2001, 2008 and now again in 2011. Keep your employees happy. This is where leadership truly comes into play and you as management have to keep your game-face on. . Nevertheless, I will stop right there. This is nothing new. But better they will be! .

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Germany Stock IPO Valuation 76

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The company, Danatec, sold paper-based course materials for corporate trainers to use in safety training of employees. Your business success is influenced by many different types of people: prospects, customers, employees, funders, suppliers, distributors and even the public at large. Growth also strains employees physically.

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Canada Dilution America Employee 28

YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2017

If you’re a worker with a terrible boss , follow these strategies to regain favor in the eyes of your manager without sacrificing your own importance and sense of self-worth. Although some view inspiration as managers’ responsibility, employees have equal power to inspire their managers. Property Management.

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B2C Agile Management Customer 124

YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2017

Although work is not synonymous with freedom, there are freedoms you can discover through the implementation of a Document Management System (DMS). Offices also steal 30-40% of each of their employees’ productivity per day, shave annual revenues by 15%, and waste anywhere from 15-25% of the space in a leased office.

Metadata 100

Metadata Security Employee Retention 100

Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. Plus, I love the sense of humor the company and its employees have. Second, it’s very easy to learn and use.

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Email Small Business Marketing Campaign 60

YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

Effectively managing the supply chain. And 2) Does your internal market, your employees and suppliers, trust you? How does FedEx’s Fred Smith manage 290,000 worldwide employees, who move more than 3 trillion packages in a year? Controlling costs. Boosting speed. Superior number-crunching and analytics.

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Analytics Forecast Cofounder Agile 160

OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

My various replies to comments are worth summarizing here – this is a reprint of my comment on Hacker News: First, my post was not intended to be general advice to employees of all companies on how to handle a situation where they’re starting to look for jobs. Work with your manager and teammates to hand off all responsibilities.

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