Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing).

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

Adeo Ressi , the founding member of TheFunded , recently announced the establishment of TheFunded Founder Institute. The Founder Institute helps founders launch innovative companies by providing training, services, and company-building assignments, such as incorporating the business, filing provision patents, and setting up books and records.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Darren Nix , Group Manager of the Assessments product team at Indeed and founder of the Y Combinator -backed startup Interviewed (acquired by Indeed), puts it this way: “Users can’t design your product for you. Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Ashley Mayer: I was two years post-college and working at a public relations agency in San Francisco, a job and career path I stumbled onto when I was rejected by my top law school picks. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. Every milestone was an opportunity to tell the biggest possible story.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

Yet, the real stories of successful startups are full of activities that can rightly be called institution-building: hiring creative employees, coordinating their activities, and creating a company culture that delivers results. Contrast this with other high-risk situations, like buying a high-risk stock.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

So I decided to become an Entrepreneur and start my own company for people who wanted to learn about trading in the Stock Market. With a wealth of financial knowledge, I took a risk and became the CFO of a clean tech startup and eventually moved to San Francisco where my entire high end wardrobe became obsolete.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank. It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals. It’s great advice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Sarbanes Oxley has made it impossible to go public reducing financial capital for start-ups and the FASB rules on stock options have made it harder to attract human capital to start-ups. Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0 April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

When investors interrogate founders, these interrogatives arise, but with a twist: Adding the word “why” in front of each. But also you de-risk by aligning the solution to the founder’s existing abilities, for example in using whatever language/framework the founders are already adept in. When → Why now?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. Maple Butter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. That company was founded on filling a need Robert saw while living in San Francisco and working on a radio startup. "I We can't change the past, but we do have a say in the future if we're willing.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

I hardly changed anything below, but I did make sure the grammar and links were corrected: Two days ago I had the honor of keynoting at the First Round Capital CEO Summit in San Francisco. My talk was about the 7 lessons I’ve learned on the journey from founder to CEO. The event was held at the Jewish Contemporary Museum.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The estimated annual GMV of GOAT and its leading competitor Stock X is already over $1B per year (on a combined basis). As an example, we estimate that ride-sharing revenues in San Francisco are well north of 10X what taxis and black cars were providing prior to the launch of ride-sharing. SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Livelys launch was marred by zillions of sex chat rooms, with people spending hours and hours trying to figure out how to use Livelys stock animations to make their avatars do things that looked kinky. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. They did allow people to create chat rooms and set the topic to whatever they wanted.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Were hiring. After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. But what of those eight members of the first Summer Founders Program; Y Combinator’s “First Batch”? The Next Web. TNW Conference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. And then co-founded Helix Nano Technologies, or HelixNano, which I am now the CEO of. We've since hired one additional person, so now seven.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

but most are coalescing around the Palo Alto – San Mateo – San Francisco center of the universe. All you need is for one of the new enterprise companies to completely whiff a quarter and their stock will collapse and then everybody will get all freaked out. We don’t have to sell our stock.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. Inside Twitter’s New San Francisco Headquarters [PICS]. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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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. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

3: Hire Your Boss : Make sure you hire people that you would want to work for, who challenge you and you can learn from. Stay involved in the hiring process as long as you possibly can. I find people hiring people they feel they can manage. For small companies, once a week; for larger companies, maybe twice a month.

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