Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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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. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 27, 2020

A great example of someone who understood that is Audrey Gelman , who once addressed 400 of her clients at her New York office while being six months pregnant. YouTube Channels & Video Tutorials. Once you know what’s bugging your customers, you can holistically address those specific queries in a video or YouTube channel.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 7, 2011

My immediate goal was to have a showroom in every market in the US – Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. It was during the New York shows that I met our first showroom who was based in Atlanta. Once we were in Nordstrom, it was quite easy for us to find a prestigious New York showroom.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were. Nayeem Hussain.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Those were the messages from the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Clips from their interviews are below, but first a word about the show: Entrepreneurs are Everywhere airs Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern on Sirius XM Channel 111. You hire really smart people-.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

They understand how to read a profit and loss (P&L) statement , how to budget, hire employees , launch products , and manage cash flow. I learned this painful reality firsthand in one of my early businesses producing New York City theater. In many cases, businesses are started by people with years of corporate experience.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 14, 2016

NYTech does not mirror the diversity of its host city… Today on Gotham Alpha, I talk to Alex Qin, Skillshare engineer and founder of Code Cooperative, about the reality of New York Tech’s diversity gap…what factors actually reinforce hiring prejudice here…and how we can all start to fix this problem, right now.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? If you’ve got tips for other business owners or want to share your experiences with hiring developers, please leave us a note in the comments section.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 19, 2014

After cultivating that relationship for some time, the company eventually hired me to help lead its social media , SEO efforts and other marketing needs. LinkedIn is the most successful professional social media channel for networking with like-minded people and it’s important that you take advantage of its helpful features.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Sawyer has decided that he can’t write publicly about his thoughts and experiences so I’ve agreed to channel his experience into my own parallel universe. In the mean time here’s his reaction to the New York Times profile last week on Intellectual Ventures. So, anecdotally, they hire a lot of lawyers.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2010

He introduced himself and we kept in touch through all the various social media channels—until I heard he was leaving Gilt. They’ve met some great developer hires and are cranking away to launch new features for the TechCrunch Disrupt in SF—quite fitting given where they started.

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

Contact Contact Us Submit News. Because there is often a lot at stake for a new company, its wise to ask where you will fit in among founders and first hires — and how you can make a direct impact on the companys success. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Every new year and right after the ball drops, it’s time to go to work. Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2020

Budget can be spent on external partners and agencies or on hiring directly within the company to design the brand. Their original logo of a Buddha in a headset, “The Mentor,” was kitschy and unique, but difficult to scale and use across various channels. Money, on the other hand, is a bit more flexible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY Neville Clubwala, a Taskrabbit worker in New York City, delivers cupcakes from Butter Lane bakery and champagne, to a recipient who received a promotion. People, if not yet profits Sharing platform companies dont need to carry inventory or hire en masse. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can minimize risk by performing due diligence when selecting a company or individual to work with, clearly defining the project scope, expectations and milestones in any development contracts, and allocating enough money to hire competent developers. it doesn't much matter who you hire in terms of risk. Nice Article.

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Up and Running

APRIL 3, 2017

At Bond Street , we’re experts in term loans , but we cover just about everything related to small business, including how to hire the perfect employees for your new company. For small business owners, committing to a new employee’s salary is daunting. See Also: Is It Time to Hire an Employee? Step 1: Know yourself.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2019

You know, you hire an artist on Fiverr to do a cover for you. Maybe a hire someone on Fiverr to lay out the book for you so it looks a little bit better than what Word can do, and your business. If, you can build your house yourself or you could hire a general contractor. Dan Janal: Sure. and use my promo code, podcast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

- simply because I left the large, famous MMO company I was working for to prepare a quiet startup) Personally, I got lucky and started in an area (online games) where I found channels such as MUD-DEV (and early GDCs) for meeting, listening to, and speaking to other people where people were taken how they were found.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

But when you think of hip, innovative new consumer brands, well, you don’t really think of this town. Even ignoring Silicon Valley, places like New York and LA seem to have an edge relative to Boston because of its proximity to media outlets and the prevalence of marketers from big and exciting consumer brands or entertainment companies.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

It was a challenge to convince companies to think past the traditional method of hiring consultants or researchers to test user experience: At first I tried to call business and enterprises. ” I called this trade show company that was putting on this great marketing event in New York City. We bootstrapped it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

I dont see any reason why having the team offshore is any more of a liability in this area than, say, having to do this work while selling through a channel (and hence, not having direct access to customers). I do have faith that, whatever situation you find yourself in, you can always find ways to increase the speed of iteration.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

New York ›. Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. View More in New York › ›. FDA Clears New Genentech Breast Cancer Drug, in Combo With Herceptin. Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. New York Events ›. View More in Boston ›. View More in Detroit ›.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

That was the message from the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere airs Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern on Sirius XM Channel 111. I’ve seen so many of my colleagues are hiring entrepreneurship directors, creating new programs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media).

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Other companies accomplish this by hiring a large staff of content production experts - and get a very good result. We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Leveraged distribution channels.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every marketing tech vendor, marketing trade publication, if you see a list article of tactics on a given channel, six ways to drive leads from LinkedIn for your business, I’ve seen that article in 17 other places and it looks identical. Jay Acunzo: I’m just outside New York City. John Jantsch: New York City.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

It was a challenge to convince companies to think past the traditional method of hiring consultants or researchers to test user experience: At first I tried to call business and enterprises. ” I called this trade show company that was putting on this great marketing event in New York City. We bootstrapped it.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 1, 2014

The glorious green grass of the work-from-home employee is a goal for many successful people (and not-so-successful people) and a great way to hire the best talent without having to pay to relocate them. It can be as simple as a nice dinner and a sit-down – all the way to hiring office space for a day and having a full team work there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

They would make commercials about a new book series, and then run the commercials at times when the TV rates were low (late night, UHF channels, etc) If they got enough orders, they then decided to print the series. Its my understanding that at one point (if not currently) Time-Life books did essentially this for their book series.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s a five week program, that sometimes, when I’m hired, they give me an hour, which is just an impossible task, but we can at least start the conversation. This was The New York Times, and the title of the article said, “Future Jets Owner, blah, blah, blah, blah.” That’s all he wants to do.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 17, 2011

Sawyier went to New York City to get investment capital and is most likely to go there for additional rounds. Understand your distribution channel, or how you reach your customers. Don't just rely on Facebook friends and other virtual methods in building your channel. You aren't selling soap or machine tools.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Lessons learned from starting up and teaching entrepreneurship were the focus of an interview with the latest guest on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Do we hire 50 sales people? Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

What it was like to get out of the research lab to build a startup was the focus of interviews with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). We said, “Well, we’re going to hire our first employee, and you know what?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Jack Wilson, owner of Radio Coffee and Beer in Austin, Texas, and Marc Renson, owner of Ambition Bistro in Schenectady, New York, stepped away from brewing and serving to offer these tips to prospective owners. Hire an accountant. Set up and utilize several social media channels. Hire slowly.

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