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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Instead, they prefer problems that gradually build on themselves and open-ended design and architecture questions.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned. A liquidation preference means that the investors receive their investment back (plus dividends) prior to a distribution of the proceeds to stockholders.   I’ve never seen it in practice.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Now, the fully bootstrapped company is turning 60% of its demos into paid customers and hitting $2.5 The company started bringing in revenue in 2012.

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I Wish I'd Sold More - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

" Distribution is everything. He designed his own cabinet layouts and helped developers with all kinds of products he didnt sell directly. " Distribution is everything. He designed his own cabinet layouts and helped developers with all kinds of products he didnt sell directly. October 2012. Bootstrapping.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Now, the fully bootstrapped company is turning 60% of its demos into paid customers and hitting $2.5 The company started bringing in revenue in 2012.

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Lessons Learned: A Successful VC Reflects on his Experience.

Tim Keane

However, the distribution channel we had planned to use lacked the sophistication ultimately required by the product design, and the manufacturers adoption cycle was insufficient. You can reduce the “acceptance difficulty” between the early adopters and the early majority in your product design. October 2012. April 2013.

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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

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