Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Brands book is based on the implementation of nine principles of innovation originally developed by Google way back in 2008 by Marissa Mayer. This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. Set your default to sharing rather than proprietary. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all. Thank you.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. As a result of the pandemic, not everyone has managed to hold onto their work. 19- Hiring people for exponential growth. 1- Expanding skillset. Photo Credit: Edward Jones.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 30, 2020

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that during economic downturns like the Dot Com crash and the financial crisis of 2008, more than 100% of net job growth comes from companies that are less than five years old. The series D insured that Linkedin had the capabilities to play both offense and defense in the 2008 crisis.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

We’d never hired anyone. Neither of us had ever lived in a big city, and in 2008 we felt ready to cash in and try something new. Within two weeks I landed a remote copywriting job that eventually turned into a job managing a collection of tourism-related websites. We’d never had anyone pay us for a product or a service.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? My explicit goal in working with HBR is to foster a dialog between entrepreneurs and more traditional general managers. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Without further ado.

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Transformify

APRIL 2, 2020

Travel, tourism, logistics, production plants, HoReCa, events management are planning massive lay off in the coming weeks and months. In a week, more than 3 million Americans have lost their jobs which is unprecedented even comparing these figures to the financial crisis in 2008. The Importance of Structure.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. One interesting skill we see is technical project management,” Cooper said. “If

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Brands book is based on the implementation of nine principles of innovation originally developed by Google way back in 2008 by Marissa Mayer. This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. Set your default to sharing rather than proprietary. Marty Zwilling.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Yet in the face of all this change, traditional firms continue to embrace a management ethos that values efficiency over innovation. To manage these employees companies create metrics to control, measure and reward execution.

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Up and Running

MARCH 26, 2020

For small businesses, cash flow management in a crisis is absolutely vital. Here’s a true story, a real-world example, from the last recession: When the big recession hit in 2008, companies with business plans and good business planning process were able to adjust to the drop much more quickly than their competition.

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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?

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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?

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Transformify

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Back in 2014, Career Builder has published a research where 81 percent of hiring managers said it was at least “Somewhat Difficult” to fill open roles due to lack of skills, and 61 percent said they had an experience of hiring a person who was not totally qualified for the position. About Genashtim.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through establishing your business can help you minimise the chances of failure but some entrepreneurs will prefer walking alone. 1-Hiring inappropriate council. Hiring inappropriate council constituted a $15k mistake because the incorrect company was formed–costing us time and $15k.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through establishing your business can help you minimise the chances of failure but some entrepreneurs will prefer walking alone. 1-Hiring inappropriate council. Hiring inappropriate council constituted a $15k mistake because the incorrect company was formed–costing us time and $15k.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2016

Using some key metrics called Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs, can help to manage and evaluate your company and measure if your service, product, or business provides something to your target market that is new, needed, better, more convenient, or cost-effective. Who is best-suited or most-equipped to act on this information.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

I never hire job hoppers. You have tough choices to make about whom you hire on your team. Now is the time that you need “all hands on deck.&# That awesome gal you hired in engineering has job options and she knows it. If you want to hire them as contractors fine. And it’s important because it’s true.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 They did not take salaries during the first two years and invested more money in the firm than they received from management fees. SecondRound.com – This is a proprietary CRM system that was built to help manage the fundraising process. They have sixteen people on staff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. But I managed a few "good learning experiences" before throwing myself full-bore into IMVU. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

They have fewer cash reserves and less margin of error for managing sudden downturns. If it’s just three-months, (looking more unlikely by the day) then an immediate freeze on variable spending (hires, marketing, travel, etc.) Are the shutdowns of businesses going to be a temporary blip in the economy or will they drive the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2011

Before every sale, new hire, big investment, or any other important business decision, take a moment to make sure you’re going after the best business opportunity and not just so you can say wow or you did it. In October 2008, I called a time-out on my plans for Max-Wellness, but I wasn’t ready to shelve the idea altogether.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody. So I wound up learning the discipline of managing other people. I mean, have you seen other people?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. PPPS, we’re also hiring a blockchain engineer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Be a great product manager, marketer, or whatever your role is, and foster deep connections there. I was able to hire phenomenal software engineers and grow a strong team culture. With all the funded startups that are unable to hire, that’s a huge ace up my sleeve. Here’s how.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Management plan. This section outlines your legal and management structure. But you might want to get an EIN anyway to keep your personal and business taxes separate and to be sure that you can quickly hire when the time comes to expand your business. If all goes well, you’ll hire many employees. The Legal Stuff.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Although this might seem difficult, there are plenty of new businesses that have done just that and managed to carve out a place for themselves in what are often saturated markets. Since its launch in 2008, Airbnb has turned the travel industry on its head, offering up over 800,000 properties worldwide for holiday rental.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2020

Don’t have rigid expectations about what type of experience you want in the candidates you look to hire. Keep it in mind when it comes time to working with vendors and hiring new employees. Here are 8 things every business can do to build a diverse team to help them succeed: 1. Be flexible. Commit to it.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tactical CTOs are internally focused, manages the team, makes the day-to-day tactics so the product gets out there. Are you good at managing or not? VP of engineering is a managing role. If not, divide off the management as soon as possible (in his case that wasn’t possible until the company was about 20 people).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

New business applications are the highest since 2008, reports the Wall Street Journal. How do you capitalize on the opportunity while managing the risk and uncertainty of Covid? by LJ Suzuki, CFOShare.org. Is it crazy to start a business during the Covid-19 pandemic? I say it’s brilliant, and at least 1.1 Business mentors?

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As your business grows, you will likely need more and more time from your accountant and at some point you’ll hire a full time person to handle the day-to-day, likely combined with roles as office manager or finance (not to be confused with accounting). World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. November 7, 2008 7:36 PM nitesh said. November 7, 2008 7:41 PM nitesh said.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Business owners must learn to manage and juggle a complex and shifting combination of customer, partner, vendor, staff and advisory relationships in order to survive and grow. One of the greatest challenges in doing so is monitoring the current status of all of these important relationships. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

To shed some light, I talked with kaChing , a destination that enables individual investors to find outstanding money managers to manage their money. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com.

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