Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2011

You can make all the grand plans you like about delivering an entertaining, inspiring, simple, surprising or mission filled marketing strategy, but you won’t make it happen unless it comes from within – at the hands of fun, inspired, motivated, surprised and connected employees.

Small Business 59

Small Business Marketing Social Media Software Review 59

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 7, 2011

In this new column Nacie is going to reveal what she has learned and how she established herself transitioning from employee to online entrepreneur. For the previous four months I had worked, plotted, and planned to make the transition from full-time employee to freelance entrepreneur as smooth and seamless as possible.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

like john 461 days ago another good question is “who are employees that have followed the ceo from his previous gig.&# Granted you don’t want to sound like you are interrogating them, but if there is sufficient interest on the company’s part in hiring you, they will expect you to ask those difficult questions.

Software Review 68

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I had the opportunity to speak with Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” and America’s #1 small business expert, who took the opportunity to share with us her proven, step-by-step method to transition from employee to entrepreneur. This is Sabrina Parsons, the CEO of Palo Alto Software. Let me tell you guys something.

Social Media 60

Social Media Small Business Software Review Technical Review 60

Transformify

JANUARY 7, 2020

I started working remotely as a freelancer back in 2007, and then became a digital nomad in 2012, traveling to/living in over 120 cities in 50 countries since then. I find that remote workers are more loyal than in-office employees. So, offering remote work is a major competitive advantage when it comes to hiring.

Software Review 81

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

And every process is in employees’ heads, yet so much of the process could be simplified, and much could be automated. Addepar is precisely trying to collect and convert into software these best practices. (ff Teten : No one ever got fired for hiring Och-Ziff, or any other of the massive hedge funds. And it helped our returns.

Software Review 114

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The Torch program created Innovation Clusters by creating national Science and Technology Industrial Parks (STIPs), Software Parks, and Productivity Promotion Centers. In addition to the one in Beijing, China has set up 53 additional industrial parks and in them are ~60,000 companies with 8 million employees. Venture Guiding Fund.

Programming 284

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. I could point to countless examples of mediocre software being unleashed upon the general population, after which people like you and me have to help replace it with something decent. In fact, not having one can be more helpful than anything else.

Software Review 40

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The Torch program created Innovation Clusters by creating national Science and Technology Industrial Parks (STIPs), Software Parks, and Productivity Promotion Centers. In addition to the one in Beijing, China has set up 53 additional industrial parks and in them are ~60,000 companies with 8 million employees. Venture Guiding Fund.

Programming 176

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 176

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. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned. Maple Butter.

Technical Review 44

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As noted in Beware The Consultant , such pay-for-hire charlatans barter their time for your money – the more time they trade with you, the more of your money they take. Microsoft – Initially descriptive of the company’s software developed for the “micro” computer market, which eventually evolved into the “personal” computer market.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

How can you ever get rich by being an employee (unless you’re a CEO on the Wall Street)? This was in 2007. The board didn’t allow employees to tell anyone they haven’t got any money anymore. The rent was due. Service business is not scalable without hiring more people. That was the last drop.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

October 2007 (This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007.) We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like.

Web 54

Web Startup Silicon Valley Technical Review 54

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 23, 2010

I’m now making decent money from the blog The Office Diet , which I launched in January 2007 – but it’s taken a year and a half to get to that point. It took me a while to realize that having a business didn’t have to mean a bricks-and-mortar place where I’d have to do boring stuff like hire and manage employees.

Affiliate 80

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). However, neither one of us has a coding background. Geeks can always be hired.

Cofounder 101

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Lesson Learned : Build a peer review mentoring culture. I decided to launch WebWorkerDaily in 2006, because it was obvious to me that distributed work was an eventuality we could not escape and soon, will live in an on-demand world that would extend from music, to movies, to work related software. ARE YOU WINNING AS A FOUNDER?

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Or they bring you a handful of great employees. Advisor compensation Whether you’re hiring a normal advisor or super advisor: Advisory shares are usually issued as common stock options. They’ll bring you leads for customers, employees, and investors. Super advisors help make your company happen.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). Monday, February 04, 2008.

Software Review 48

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

Soon, we were getting referrals in states (outside of Phoenix, where I was at the time) and instead of telling those clients no (because I realized if I said no, they would find someone else) I flew to the different areas, reached out to my network and would hire and train sitters in those cities. Thanks to Hunter Stunzi, SnapCap !

Entrepreneur 48

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Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2017

Employee compensation is not incentive compatible. Business plans can fail because employees are not compensated in a way that aligns the goal of the employee with the goals of the company. One option is to offer tailored benefits to the employee.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

And even the best of us make bad hiring decisions. 11:00 AM: The Yelp Effect: When Everyone’s A Restaurant Critic 19B – Nowadays, with restaurant blogs and sites like Yelp and Chowhound, everyone is a restaurant reviewer. How are user-generated reviews changing how restaurants operate and how we eat?

Omaha 79

Omaha Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Media 79

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. peer review is NOT working. It was really the community who built that product.&#

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