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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

I wouldn’t say it’s 1999 or even 2007, but it certainly has turned around. I don’t have specific suggestions for people you can hire. One recruiter tells me it’s “like 1999? in terms of the activity, with not only jobs aplenty, but offers and counter-offers hitting good talent. My methods are pretty vanilla.

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3 Cost-Saving Tips for Your Business Website

The Startup Magazine

Weebly : Since its inception in 2007, Weebly has remained popular as website builder with small businesses. It is essential to think about your needs when searching for a website building tool as each website has their unique requirements. Another cheaper option is to hire a student to get your website design done.

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

We’d never hired anyone. I had some limited knowledge about search engine marketing, but knew nothing about marketing in a more general sense. Just a few weeks after we finished the website, this business had paying customers coming from Google search and free Craigslist postings. Suddenly, we were business owners.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders who have the whole package or as much of it as possible. About 18 months ago in early 2008 we hired an analyst (pre-MBA), but wanted to wait until after Summer to hire a post-MBA associate. We weren’t ready to hire an associate yet so I offered him a summer internship.

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Optimized Reviews May Be the Next Local SEO Edge :: Small Business.

Duct Tape Marketing

Today Google added an interesting twist to Google Maps searches called Descriptive Terms that injects another dynamic – search optimized reviews. Google has started indexing local search results with phrases that accompany things like reviews. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. All rights reserved.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). echoes Labay’s sentiment: Search habits change.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses.

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