Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. And the company that helped websites publish RSS? Twitter is my curated RSS feed.

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. This means that the easier your process is to teach, the easier it is to find employees who can do the work, the more employees you can hire, and the more profit you will make per sale. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Like this post?

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Software By Rob

MARCH 25, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. It’s a bit like the hiring manager who’s seen thousands of resumes and can scan through 200 of them in 3 minutes and tell you who to call in for a phone interview. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Like this post? at 7:32 am [.]

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Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Or maybe you’ll need to step away from the code, give up that control we all feel we need, and hire out some development so you focus on other areas of the business. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Like this post?

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Whether you’re trying to get hired, promoted, funded or close a sale…passion wins. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. My roof is leaking. In five places.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

To greet renters and hand over the keys, Hertz sometimes hires a stand-in through TaskRabbit, a Web-based company that matches time-deprived people in need of temporary assistants with freelance errand runners who have passed criminal background checks and are looking for extra income. Only 3% were online when I started AOL. Advertisement.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

It’s clear that AngelList wants to help bring much of the transactional conversations and introductions that happen at the early stage of hiring and fundraising via word of mouth or in meetings online. The site is also a data goldmine. No wonder the platform is rumored to be raising a round at a $150 million valuation or more.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Hire people in return for a share of your income stream instead of upfront cash. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. A good weekly listen.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This reminded me of a conversation with one of my direct reports years before my daughter was born. I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. Our conversation went like this: Me: Jim, how are we doing with getting Ansys ported?

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If someone were trying to hire me, hold a meet up on Hadoop. Or even ways to optimize the conversion flow of a website sign up process. Everything written here is my own fault and not necessarily the view of anyone who hires me, employs me, sits near me or otherwise is willing to admit they know me. Full RSS - Comments RSS.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Extra Lucrative Conversion Advice. Conversion Optimization Services. Conversion Research. It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Website Analysis.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

From there, the conversation took a different trajectory. I believe it’s just like a family trait, which starts from the characteristics of the top C-level executives and cascades all the way down, from the type of mid-management they hire, to who the mid-management hires, and then the way everyone is supposed to walk and talk.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 4, 2013

This was a thoroughly enjoyable conversation podcast interview, with David Hooper , a musician turned music marketer. . Download the Text Transcript in PDF (Coming Soon) Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes This was a thoroughly enjoyable conversation podcast interview, with David Hooper, a musician turned music marketer. Coming Soon)

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. He is a broad, strategic business thinker, has a deep understanding of engineering talent, has very high standards, and is someone I can always have a real conversation with. This time, I decided to handle the process myself.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

So I still believe in the, you know, you still need to have an RSS feed to deliver the show, which causes most people's eyes, still the glaze over. They get deep in a conversation that may not have happened. Todd Cochrane (14:37): You know, and it's even funny because I hired a service to help me get more interviews.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. As a developer you have the ability to build/hire out/buy applications and websites, where the margin is huge and you have something unique. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Essentially, the website was in bad shape both visually and in terms of conversions. I hired a lawyer with experience in IP website acquisitions to draft up a custom agreement. If this series has been interesting stick around ( RSS feeds are cool). Plugging the Marketing Funnel. For escrow I used escrow.com. Conclusion.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) Market Type changes everything. Market Type Changes Everything Here’s the point.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. I see a lot of early-stage entrepreneurs waste too much time chasing money rather than figuring this out first.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. And the very cool thing about being funded is that means they are hiring. and current so that employers find you a desirable hire.

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blogs.hbr.org

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Im not arguing for long, pointless, unstructured conversations with everyone you meet. But many of my most fruitful relationships have resulted from a meeting or call in which I was not entirely sure what would or would not come of the conversation. Next Hiring More Women Means Changing Your Companys Culture. Kathryn Minshew.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Conversely, a willing customer might not have the time to give you consistent feedback in the design stage – they just want the benefits of what you’re offering when it actually works. Each conversation was invaluable, and we didn’t play hide the ball with them. They simply underestimated the effort involved to be in the conversation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Shift the conversation to places where the competition can’t—or won’t—go. Create “thin ice” arguments.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! I explain a bit more of my thinking on this tool in this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. Could I work here if he wanted to hire me?&#

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Hire someone to do a working prototype/proof-of-concept. I should mention briefly here that even when you find your technical cofounder, you may also need to hire a graphic designer or user interface expert at some point, even if it’s just for contract work. If it's not financially viable, abandon it. Rework it as necessary.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Six Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion Web Pages. Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. Is Conversion Rate Enough? Podcast: Measuring Rich Media (Ajax, Flash / Flex, RSS & Blogs). Stop Obsessing About Conversion Rate. Tip #15: Measure Latent Conversions & Visitor Behavior.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 8, 2010

You can't afford to hire three developers to add features and bugs. We all have dreams of stratospheric growth, whether it's hoping the next blog post will get 267 votes on Hacker News and double your RSS subscribers , or hoping that the advent of release v1.1 Leave a comment and join the conversation. Embrace slow growth.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Monday, September 27, 2010 Kevin Bedell says: Robby – I really appreciate what you’re adding to the conversation here. I’ve had many conversations with entrepreneurs. If yes, hire a contract developer. Search: RSS Feed. Tuesday, August 17, 2010 e.p.c. be a sensible devil’s advocate). Thoughts on.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 18, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Also makes a great way to share a conversation about a client to help them understand the buzz.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

It was always a welcome change of pace to leave the brown of the unchanging desert and travel into town and have dinner with them and have a non-technical conversation about books, theater, politics, travel, etc. Her husband would look at me out the corner of his eyes and then we’d segue the conversation to some other topic.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

If you rely on search engine traffic, conversion optimization starts before visitors get to your site. Why sitelinks matter for conversions. Google’s own research has shown that, compared to non-branded keywords, brand keywords have a 2x higher conversion rate. Why sitelinks are critical for mobile conversions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 3, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. 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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners!

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 2, 2009

Some people make a living out of being virtual assistants and helping busy people with their everyday tasks (such as organizing a meeting, doing some online research, calling someone, etc…) Depending on the skill set and the country of origin, the cost of hiring a virtual assistant can be as low as 5 US$ an hour. I felt very frustrated.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I got to interview there and had a great conversation with Jon that inspired a post on the kind of venture firm NYC needed. When we hired her, we leveled up in terms of our technology and Big Data chops. That's when I reemerged on Josh Kopelman's radar and he decided to offer me a job at First Round.

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