Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. So if you’ve got advice to share on implementing a continuous deployment framework, for example, we’re all eyes. So, no, you absolutely do not have to be a developer to give a talk.

Lean 165

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets? You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Hire a bookkeeper or setup a QuickBooks chart of accounts on your first day in business. Pretend your family doesn’t matter.

Entrepreneur 265

Entrepreneur Early Stage Bootstrapping Revenue 265

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The question is further complicated when the new hire is getting a salary. Typically the salary is less than market with the balance given in the form of equity, but again how do you compute that when the stock is, today, of no value? &# Hard to know, but an important question for a bootstrap startup to answer!

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Equity Salary Hiring Institutional Investors 276

OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 10: The Hiring Challenge…Unique Challenges for Startups, Recruiting Outstanding Talent, Staying “In-Market”, Recruitment Tools, The Interview: Filtering Potential Candidates, Two Ears One Mouth, Who Should You Interview? Chapter 25: Meeting Routines…Lencioni’s Meeting Framework, Skip-Level Meetings, Running a Productive Offsite.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets? You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Hire a bookkeeper or setup a QuickBooks chart of accounts on your first day in business. Pretend your family doesn’t matter.

Early Stage 120

Early Stage Startup Bootstrapping Revenue 120

startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Each of those ten people have great ideas and passion for their ventures but they are lacking a technical cofounder or the money to hire a programmer. But in my limited experience, the tools that get used in your business tend to be the ones favored by the first hire or by the technical cofounder. Elizabeth Eadie: Super fun!

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Baltimore Maryland 40

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Perhaps they’ll be able to hire someone especially skilled in the marketing skills needed to find this positioning. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Transitioning from founder sold bootstrapped revenue to a functioning sales team is certainly possible. And will lead to longer term success.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Gain valuable insights into the Miles framework, a strategic approach to identifying and leveraging your strengths. Through the Miles framework, they guide listeners to identify and leverage their unique strengths, turning constraints into creative opportunities. Should you bootstrap? Should you raise funding?

Framework 71

Framework Cofounder Early Stage IPO 71

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Hire a Programmer The Hope: You’ll use the programmer to build a prototype that will get you traction and experience. You know how to product manage and you’ve hired programmers before. I recommend you start by reading this post on how to hire a programmer. I plan on bootstrapping my upcoming startup.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Ruby 43

Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Too frequently, a concept is exciting but cannot be supported within the legal framework or is simply a recycled concept that is reliant upon ‘first mover’ advantage in their jurisdiction. It’s recommended to hire an experienced attorney to aid you in navigating this process to make sure your business is legit.

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Las Vegas District of Columbia Colorado North America 144

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Well of course we’re focusing on this and that, and you can take a lot of times with frameworks or whatever, I say that doesn’t matter. I’m not going to read this to you, but swat, core competence and et cetera, these are ideas and the goal is focus and I really don’t care what framework. When is the new launch?

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Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

To replace them, employers spend $11,500 average per healthcare employee acquisition cost (20% of the annualized salary plus hiring incentives is considered customary for acquisition cost). There is no available simple or inexpensive way for employer and employee to find each other except through Monster-type services.

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India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Should you bootstrap? But if I'm out there listening, you know, what are some of the, what are just some of the places that you go looking, I know you have a framework you call the Miles framework. So the Miles framework is, uh, it stands for money, intelligence, location, and luck education and expertise and status.

Audio 87

Audio Cofounder Framework Early Stage 87

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

—– Earnest Capital invests in bootstrapped companies to help them unlock more growth. All Earnest investments are made using the Shared Earnings Agreement (SEAL) – a custom salary/profit share structure, aligned with how most bootstrapped founders are compensated.

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

I’ve been an entrepreneur for the last five years, during which we’ve bootstrapped our innovation management software company Viima to a good number of happy customers, including some from the Global Fortune 500, and achieved a solid growth rate. What’s more, we didn’t really have the resources to hire outside help to do things for us.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Cofounder Employee Founder 93

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

Also I stuck with.Net all these years because I found the tools very powerful (Visual Studio, Resharper, TFS, etc…) and I believed it was hard to beat the productivity a developer gets out of these tools and the framework in general. I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

Also I stuck with.Net all these years because I found the tools very powerful (Visual Studio, Resharper, TFS, etc…) and I believed it was hard to beat the productivity a developer gets out of these tools and the framework in general. I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time.

Ruby 28

Ruby Developer Product Caching 28

css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

chriscoyier fire incompetent devs and hire someone who can do it right from the start. ” Chris Coyier: I’m serving responsive layouts, use of Twitter-bootstrap, Skeleton, and custom media query based responsive layouts. . @ chriscoyier Organize. — Tim Panicucci (@tpanicucci) December 18, 2012. Really a awesome post!

Web 96

Web Software Review Technical Review Caching 96

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

We've since hired one additional person, so now seven. And then a well incentivized collaboration framework where any company or academic group can jump in to contribute and be correctly incentivized. Eric Ries : How big was the company at that time? Hannu Rajaniemi : Six people. Hannu Rajaniemi : Absolutely.

Founder 60

Founder Technical Review Leadership Software Review 60

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. Hire one from each.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

The more I did meditation practice and the more I studied, I really felt like there was some useful material there and some tools that I could use to relate to my own challenges or the difficulties in the world and give me a little bit of framework for making sense of it, I guess. They dropped in there.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Founder Community Software Review 68

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. Tools that technical people have had for years (project management methods and tools, programming frameworks, etc.) Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). open source framework for Ruby. a PHP open source framework. high-level Python framework. find/hire freelancers.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53