This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

In that time, the company has grown from 3 to 104 employees (and growing!). One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. We have a strong preference for candidates with experience working with advertising systems written in C or C++.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Internal org charts , job descriptions, titles, resumes, compensation details and direct contact information for individual employees (trade secret). To what extent might proprietary IP rights be undermined by antitrust laws ?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level.

Silicon Valley 235

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 235

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. Optimize information shared by multiple employees, and streamline existing processes. This can help improve account and sales management across multiple devices while ensuring customer experience is maintained between employees.

Management 116

Management Customer Software Review Technical Review 116

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! At the beginning, before you have investors, it is not unusual for you (and possibly employees) to forego salary for extended periods of time. Because the platform lets curators distribute digests in their own names.

Curation 61

Curation Silicon Valley Startup Jordan 61

Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. In response to the problem of worthless common stock, some companies have implemented employee retention plans, which are also referred to as M&A carveout plans. Straight Retention Plans.

Retention 31

Retention Liquidation Preference Employee Common Stock 31

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

You’ll end up with a long, generic statement about how your company is serving its customers, employees, etc. The company history section can provide new employees with background on the company so that they have better context for the work that they are doing and where the company has come from over the years. Distribution.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

You invest in your employees—mentoring, conferences, training. Employees take other jobs. It moves knowledge from the head (or hard drive) of a single employee into an accessible, company-owned repository. That transferability is a competitive advantage: Critical knowledge stays with the company, not the employee.

Retention 128

Retention Technical Review Social Network Wiki 128

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Salesforce, Ning - get platform + API leverage - must go down a particular path Marc Canter CEO, Broadband Mechanics - makers of People Aggregator VERY colorful speaker. Mark Suster Partner GRP Partners He's an ex-Salesforce.com employee. Salesforce is good for distribution - can access their user base.

Internet 150

Internet EC2 Java API 150

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 20, 2015

Four times per year, Bianca (our Customer Service Manager) downloads reports from each of these services and aggregates them into one supersize Excel spreadsheet, allowing us to perform fairly sophisticated analyses of the results. hourly distribution data allows us to schedule extra help for the busiest times of each day.

Small Business 48

Small Business Customer Intellectual Property Aggregator 48

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. First of all, they are not selling their product by hand. This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. There need to be more ways to aggregate meaningful conversations on specific topics, and that's exactly what you are doing with your socalCTO and your [link]. Absolutely.

Early Stage 150

Early Stage Southern California Los Angeles Marketing 150

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Unfortunately, by signing away their copyright (c) – and along with it, frequently, the rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, display, and create derivative works and for the sound recording – artists in effect give away large portions of their future profits.

Mobile 82

Mobile Intellectual Property Database Aggregator 82

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. It’s also easy to take in aggregate click data quickly and see broad trends. User viewing time was distributed as follows: Above the fold: 80.3% Just because it’s “instant” doesn’t mean it’s magic. Click Maps. Image Source). Below the fold: 19.7%.

Algorithm 111

Algorithm Analytics Conversion Stock 111

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I joined as employee 14 and spent a few years at this analytics startup, which was founded by Hiten Shah and Neil Patel. I had just enough data to optimize the main funnel, found a bunch of wins, then hit a hard wall and needed to rebuild the entire distribution strategy from scratch to keep growing. The growth teams that I’ve built.

Conversion 133

Conversion Technical Review Channel Engineer 133

Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2021

Companies like Amazon, which created a product distribution network capable of delivering almost any consumer item anywhere in the world in two days or less. In smaller operations, managers often work to ferret out underperforming employees or reimagine wasteful procedures. Improve employee engagement.

B2B 102

B2B Campaign Analytics Operations 102

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose. Other firms are using Talent Relationship Management tools, e.g., Thrive. . 11) Exit .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The employee picks a provider from a plan picked by the employer from the insurance carrier. This is then sent though the employer to the employee. Now the employee is exposed to the price for the very first time, and told the price was too high, but guess what — this is after the work is already done. In the U.S.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on.

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

Version One Ventures

JULY 29, 2020

Lending protocol Compound approved a proposal to distribute COMP tokens to regular borrowers and lenders on the platform, basically rewarding the participants of the platform with a stake in the protocol (like a gigantic loyalty program). while users can only earn YPI tokens by using the yEarn yield aggregating tokens.

Networking 111

Networking Government Stock Options Later Stage 111

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

16:07) We discuss the importance of facilitating people's ability to do work, especially for leaders who have the flexibility to offer employees the chance to help. (18:12) 16:07) We discuss the importance of facilitating people's ability to do work, especially for leaders who have the flexibility to offer employees the chance to help. (18:12)

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Find aggregators. Find physical aggregators  There are various aggregators in the real world that provide really novel ways to hack liquidity. Now you have a trusted recommendation to try a service and you get free distribution to all employees. See: Github , OpenTable. See: MyEatClub , Zimride.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. And there are also modern examples of investors beating the founders and employees out the door.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

OnlyOnce

JANUARY 7, 2015

This requires the manager making it comfortable (without negative stigma), and the employee approaching it maturely. The high-level data inputs are the size of payroll, the amount of aggregate increase the company can afford, and the framework for distributing that aggregate increase by department or by level of performance.

Aggregator 48

Aggregator Conversion Employee Management 48

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Marc Hedlund of Wesabe talked about this in his post-mortem stating: Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. During this year they. deprecated the old feature-complete product (ACS 3.4)

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

As a boon to the Israeli market’s future stability, the Bank of Israel approved a new law that specifies price stability as the central bank’s primary goal, forms a board of directors with a majority of members who are not bank employees, and creates a six-member committee to set interest rates. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was having the same conversations over-and-over again ( JFDI , Don’t Roll Out the Red Carpet when Employees are on the Way Out the Door , Don’t Drink Your Own Kool Aid , etc) and I figured I might as well just write them up and make them available for future people who might be interested. Think Mint.com.

Startup 373

Startup eCommerce Audience Community 373

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together. Socialcast – Private online communities of all sizes to help organize enterprise communication that allows employees to decide how to find and use information while reducing email clutter and unproductive communications.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. carriers, Google, et al) covet an economic stream they believe they can take a slice of. FAQ A: What about Square?

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A homogenizing collection of data from multiple sources organized for distribution, sharing, and often subsetting and sharing. Ask yourself the following questions: Are employees as curious and motivated as they should be when it comes to using data? Aggregates. Why is that? Step 6: Build dashboards. Data catalog.

Analytics 85

Analytics Cloud Advertising SQL 85

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Also for this metric more than any other it is important to look at distribution and not averages (they lie!). Only look at distributions (look at that screenshot on the right, amazing, just as many people visited the site just one as did between 9 and 50 times a month!). Do this, you will love it! That's wrong. This is how.

Metrics 123

Metrics Web Non-Compete Analytics 123

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

In small organizations there is a lot more end-to-end ownership amongst the few employees, and if something is going awry things hit the fan pretty fast. I wonder what the distribution looks like? at a level of aggregation or granularity you need, and send it into your digital analytics tools. Is that what we are solving for?

Metrics 159

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. This is the blog post I needed to read.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

VC Adventure

APRIL 19, 2020

. – Consider a separate loan program for very small businesses (fewer than 10 or 20 employees) that’s based on a revenue formula and so long as they use the funds for current expenses (i.e., – We need distribution mechanisms beyond the SBA (which is overwhelmed). .

SBIR 105

SBIR SBA Distribution Programming 105

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: Leaving people skills and capabilities aside, it is the work the employee does that makes them a Squirrel or a Ninja. 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. All data in aggregate is crap. Total revenue.

Analytics 140

Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? Every company I meet these days is grappling with this topic, from ESG to employee activism, to so much more. Our first thought was just, how do we take care of our employees? And I actually really liked doing this.

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113