View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. How did you address that?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns).

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

VentureFizz: Good newsletter with funding announcements, best local blog posts, and other local tech happenings. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. See his innovation economy blog and follow him on Twitter. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Gee, if they treat me like this in good times I wonder how they’d treat me in bad times!&#. You’ll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company. The more senior members you have (say you already have a CEO, CTO, VP marketing, VP Biz Dev, VP Products) then the less options you’ll need and vice versa.

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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. I didnt include much on the blog at first, because I want you to judge what I write based on what I say, rather than who I am. Eric, love the blog.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

If that’s you, by all means hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies – and ignore the rest of this post. Little did they know, that he was also the CTO and the person responsible for making all tech decisions Folklore has some interesting stories about Burrell Smith ( [link] ).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 15, 2014

Keith Rabois famously quipped , “I don’t know of a single successful CEO or entrepreneur who blogs regularly.” As the CTO of a 130-person company that’s still growing along every dimension at a prodigious rate, that’s the appropriate job description. And agreeing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

So yes, I want to hire somebody with really high IQ and EQ but not somebody who is more knowledgeable at your specific skill set than you are. I honestly believe I learned more by rising up the ranks and becoming the president of my fraternity than I did in the class room reading about supply & demand curves in economics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Fred Wilson wrote an eloquent piece on his blog about “ recycling capital ,&# which every regional community should read. It’s important.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

VentureFizz: Good newsletter with funding announcements, best local blog posts, and other local tech happenings. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. See his innovation economy blog and follow him on Twitter. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring).

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Board Effect

JANUARY 15, 2020

Many companies are now also hiring a CISO or CTO to fulfill their need for IT expertise. At some point, the tables may turn, and companies will be the ones that have trouble meeting compliance demands. A focus on digital governance will also help streamline and support digital development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I mentioned to Mike that I was going to kick this series off over on the Meebo Blog , but he suggested I start it here.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure. We so often see good ideas, without a good understanding of customer demand (reason number 2).

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

It’s more a reflection of us having way too many roles and responsibilities, way too many demands on our time, way too many conflicting priorities. If you are doing it all yourself, you are doing yourself a disservice, and you are wasting a lot of time. I bill out at somewhere near 200 an hour most of the time.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. However, I do spend a lot of time daydreaming. Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Groupon's MVP was a WordPress blog and a spreadsheet. Rockstar v.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Expensify Blog. Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expense Reports That Don't Suck.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

Meaning that most new SaaS startups we see are, in fact, nascent and therefore are trying to create their own demand, which requires a lot of evangelism and education. I’ve written quite a bit about how to evangelize in a nascent market?—?for

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Smart teams understand quickly that all three skills are essential - if you can't recognize the need, you won't be able to hire for it or value it. Add Comment • Dec 7, 2010 View All 2 Comments Cannot add comment at this time. Colin Hayhurst , CTO co-founder then CEO of start-up b. The former focussed on biz.

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