YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Worse yet, they may simply hire employees of high skill out of your market area and deny you the workforce you need to make your idea feasible. Instagram soon came along and scooped up the remains of its user base, leading it to take over its corner of the market where Google could have easily succeeded.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Harvest 113

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

You invest in your employees—mentoring, conferences, training. Employees take other jobs. They planned to hire away the company’s master developer for $200,000 a year. It moves knowledge from the head (or hard drive) of a single employee into an accessible, company-owned repository. Yet over time, unused knowledge fades.

Retention 128

Retention Technical Review Social Network Wiki 128

Transformify

JUNE 20, 2022

From managing one-off vendors, to aggregating payments, to end-to-end billing automation, a cutting-edge vendor management system ( VMS) may drive efficiencies, cut admin work and improve the relationship with vendors, service providers and independent contractors. But first things first - What is vendor management software?

Affiliate 98

Affiliate Demand Software Review Software 98

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. You will hire (over time) and manage a field and inside team of Sales Directors and Market Developers, including for each direct report creating and managing goals directly tied to Company goals. In that time, the company has grown from 3 to 104 employees (and growing!).

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking. with the announcement of a funding round, new senior hires, etc.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Hire fewer employees until you’re bursting at the seems with work for the ones you have.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was a benefit to employees and a slight value transfer from equity holders to option holders (generally speaking in M&A transactions the value of the aggregate option exercise ends up allocated across the rest of the cap table).

Valuation 48

Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

That story is how you recruit employees, convince customers to give you a shot, and secure funding. Investors and smart hires will always do appropriate diligence before investing money and time, but they won’t bother doing that unless they are excited about your story. Trying to recruit a co-founder or key-employee?

Founder 120

Founder Technical Review Cofounder Non-Compete 120

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 20, 2015

Well it starts with hiring the right people (a discussion we will leave for a different blog post), and continues with strong training regimens (another future post, ok?), How is this possible? That such a small team can respond so quickly and effectively in a high-volume customer service context?

Small Business 48

Small Business Customer Intellectual Property Aggregator 48

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2018

Companies: In the 20 th century when companies competed with peers with the same business model, they wanted employees to help them execute current business models (whether it was working on an assembly line or writing code supporting or extending current products). Entrepreneurship. The Economic Environment. Is entrepreneurship for everyone?

Entrepreneur 336

Entrepreneur Business Model Capital Gains Aggregator 336

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Online stores can serve more customers globally with lower costs, less effort, and fewer employees 24/7. By opening fewer stores you decrease costs in renting real estate, distributing products to your stores, and hiring employees for every location in every area you’re operating in.

Affiliate 134

Affiliate Revenue Internet Marketing 134

Transformify

JULY 16, 2018

The days of placing a simple NOW HIRING job posting in the classified section of the newspaper and being flooded with resumes are long over. It is vitally important for companies to have a clear and concise message and identity from the moment they begin to interact with a prospective employee. AI Supplementing Workflow.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Employee Matching 40

Transformify

JULY 3, 2018

The days of placing a simple NOW HIRING job posting in the classified section of the newspaper and being flooded with resumes are long over. It is vitally important for companies to have a clear and concise message and identity from the moment they begin to interact with a prospective employee. AI Supplementing Workflow.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Employee Matching 40

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 1, 2012

between them, making the aggregate exit value of these acqui-hires 4.2x, which tells us that if the investors on average had a 24% stake they would have broken even on these deals. Whichever way you look at it the conclusion is the same – acqui-hire is not a great exit strategy for investors.

San Francisco 110

San Francisco Hiring Liquidation Preference Aggregator 110

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. The large players like Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent historically would be more likely to simply copy a startup’s features than to hire their talent. Turnover of employees in capital in Beijing is very high.

China 326

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 326

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

Revenue is quite far removed from most employees’ daily jobs, and big numbers (in the millions) are hard to grasp compared to a metric like monthly active users (MAU). The aggregate Total Time Reading (TTR) is a metric that helps us understand how the Medium platform is doing as a whole. It’s uninspiring. A simple question (e.g., “How

Metrics 120

Metrics Acquisition Revenue .Net 120

SiliconHills

JUNE 2, 2017

Everfest, a festival aggregation and promotions site, announced this week it has raised $3.6 The company plans to use the funds to hire key employees and on product development […] The post Everfest Raises $3.6 million in funding. Live Nation co-led the series A round along with ATX Seed Ventures.

Aggregator 91

Aggregator Product Development Hiring Employee 91

Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. In her current role, MJ works to align the customer and employee experience with PEMCO’s brand aspirations. What does diversity hiring mean to you?

Hiring 40

Hiring Portland Non-Compete Seattle 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees. Integration of all groups is the key to an optimal customer experience, starting from the hiring process to pay for performance.

Demand 179

Demand Customer Social Media Aggregator 179

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Every company I meet these days is grappling with this topic, from ESG to employee activism, to so much more. And of course, we started putting together a plan about how we might evacuate or get out of the office for day-to-day work and how we might start to provide services to employees. Highlights from the Show: What is Coinbase? (:33)

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2022

Fully Loaded Costs (FLCo) contains the costs associated with salaries of human and robotic employees, agency fees, depreciation associated with building, free doughnuts on Fridays for all employees, credit card processing fees, discounts, and the long laundry lists of things that goes into producing the product/service that you sold to earn revenue.

Conversion 127

Conversion Analytics .Net Metrics 127

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. The large players like Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent historically would be more likely to simply copy a startup’s features than to hire their talent. Turnover of employees in capital in Beijing is very high.

China 218

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 218

YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2018

So, when you think about it, what is the cost for attracting the intern, preparing enriching tasks for them to learn from, having paid members of staff monitor, train, and report of their tasks, what if the intern decides not to become a long-term employee where you could claw back your invested time and capital into them?

Small Business 113

Small Business Aggregator Matching Hiring 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees. Integration of all groups is the key to an optimal customer experience, starting from the hiring process to pay for performance.

Demand 140

Demand Customer Social Media Aggregator 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2014

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees. Integration of all groups is the key to an optimal customer experience, starting from the hiring process to pay for performance.

Customer 242

Customer Social Media Aggregator Analytics 242

Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2021

In smaller operations, managers often work to ferret out underperforming employees or reimagine wasteful procedures. Improve employee engagement. Although it’s often overlooked when businesses go hunting for ways to improve efficiency, every business can benefit by measuring and improving employee engagement.

B2B 102

B2B Campaign Analytics Operations 102

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2017

Nolo.com has good advice on employee evaluations. Look for the employees who are most ready to sell new products and services, and see if they should also be given a promotion to reflect their new responsibilities. If it is time to hire additional salespeople, there are some helpful guidelines here.

Small Business 100

Small Business Small Business Administration Social Media Aggregator 100

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If we don’t enjoy working with someone - an employee, a partner, whomever - we’re just not going to do it. Sure, we employee lots of amazing people whom we trust to help us make it great, but as Founders we still own and control the final product. The most important hiring criteria for your executives is cultural fit.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. Party B: The investment banks.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2015

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Rethink how you organize, train, and reward employees. Integration of all groups is the key to an optimal customer experience, starting from the hiring process to pay for performance.

Customer 120

Customer Social Media Aggregator Analytics 120

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 was hired to level-up the marketing team. Then, I evolved it into a growth team by hiring a designer and two engineers. But in aggregate, they can make a big difference. I Will Teach You to Be Rich.

Conversion 133

Conversion Technical Review Channel Engineer 133

Transformify

MAY 4, 2020

Moreover, all businesses had to adjust their processes to work from home and remote working arrangements during the lockdown which had a positive effect on flexible hiring plans. Now, the big question is ‘’ How to source, hire, manage and transfer payment to on-demand workforce?’’ Source Flexible Workforce.

Demand 90

Demand Matching Aggregator Hiring 90

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

That’s true whether you plan to license software or hire an outside organization. RapidMiner has rolled out a SaaS beta that, with a bit of manual adjustment, translates an Excel sheet full of, say, employment data to a prediction of employee retention: A dataset in Excel—a starting point in which most marketers are already comfortable.

Analytics 131

Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Diverse employee populations and customer bases start with having a diverse board and a CEO (you!) Watch this space in the coming days and weeks for CEO-specific content about hiring Board members. . who is attuned to the benefits of diversity at the top. VC partners will be able to see patterns across the entire portfolio. .

Aggregator 71

Aggregator Portfolio Networking Design 71

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2016

Using Hootsuite, you can set up a stream that will aggregate all of the conversations about your brand even if they don’t tag you in it. Sometimes you just need to hire a few brand ambassadors to get the ball rolling. Sometimes your best brand ambassadors are your own employees. Look internally.

Affiliate 28

Affiliate Technical Review Advertising Conversion 28

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. See: Gigwalk.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101