infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks. One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I ‘m very impressed by Rand Fishkin’s A Cautionary Tale from the Startup World posted on his blog over the weekend. Rand keeps it anonymous, which is just as well; a piece like this would be really hard to do with specific names and faces. First, because the story echoes one of my top 10 planning mistakes.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If you’re a pure startup and haven’t raised any money – you might change the life of every person you hire. I always encourage people to allocate a few extra stock options to those that join super early when your company is risky and they just believed in you. I started blogging because Brad Feld blogged.

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www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

2 Stock Classes: Common and Preferred. 5 Stock vs Options. 6 Founders / Restricted Stock. The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and Im getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding startup stock (equity) offers. 3 Dilution. 4 Vesting.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Edwin: Correct, I fully agree and the name MeetingKing already says that my initial focus definitely was on meetings, right? So if I’m looking, MeetingKing’s obviously a brilliant name. But we’re just not going to name them as ideal. It’s kind of already obvious what it does, which is great.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

Even when I’m not the one being sued I find myself being dragged into deposition after deposition and my blog (along with all my emails) are being served as evidence. I funded a US company that bought a URL and a brand name and filed for a trademark. Lawsuits are becoming so prevalent these days. He sued anyways.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Felix Salmon, for instance, points out that Fortune’s editorial staff considered twelve other candidates including Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, and Martha Stewart before naming Steve Jobs the best CEO of the decade in November 2009. If you do, hire him! Knowledge of every product and technology decision that gets made.

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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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Ben's Blog

MARCH 17, 2011

In fact, the best leveling tools get extremely specific and even name names: “should be a superstar recruiter – as good as Jenny Rogers.”. Andreessen argues that people ask for many things from a company: salary, bonus, stock options, span of control, and titles. Next, define a formal process for all promotions.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

But I have put in hundreds of hours writing my blog, Lucky7, since 2012. Lucky7 is named after my mom , who was an amazing woman and entrepreneur herself. investors through ownership of some of your equity and advisors through stock option grants that they can exercise at a later period of time.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

I note that I have no inside information, and this blog post is based purely on published material. In addition, HP competitor Larry Ellison lambasted the board and even went so far as to hire Mark Hurd to be President of Oracle. She was hired by Hewlett-Packard and paid up to $5,000 per meeting to meet with Fortune 50 CEOs.

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