Transformify

JANUARY 2, 2021

GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics calculates that this saving for each half-time remote employee could reach $11,000 per year. It demands a level of employee management and project management skills beyond regular. It keeps the work in progress limited so that the team can focus more on the task at hand. Get your project plan in order.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. If establishing physical offices in a developing country, split them into at least two physical areas hundreds of miles apart from each other. Fortunately none of our employees lost their lives and the second office 300 miles away in Manila continued operating as normal.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. It’s a subjective topic.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2023

More About The Agency Certification Intensive Training: Learn more about the Agency Certification Intensive Training here Take The Marketing Assessment: Marketingassessment.co Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! But the business that I started went from zero to 40 employees. Like this show? Because guess what?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So when we strip out pass through, and then we measure the margin on that pass through, it's almost like we have two layers of cost of good sold, which is a concept that a lot of accountants kind of struggle with. Cost-based accounting on projects in your accounting tool.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

As we’ve grown from 1,500 employees to more than 3,000, I’ve seen many more “strategy” and “manager” types come on board, yet the number of “doers” doesn’t usually grow at the same rate. I compare it to parts of Market Muse—but at 1% the cost. The SEO team updates the Google Sheet, presses “import,” reviews, and clicks “publish.”

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

In Part Two, I’ll talk about some of the practices we’re using in our product management and development teams. If we drove revenue above costs, we got to take home a salary. When we were starting our deliverability business at Return Path, staying innovative was relatively easy.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

What used to be easy when you had one employee and two customers is more difficult when you employ five people and have 25 customers. Many are free while others cost thousands of dollars per month. If you’re setting business goals – and you absolutely should be – CRMs can help you review your metrics (i.e.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. As for web and social apps, for some platforms, you’ll want to have a special development team. You also need to be sure you’re offering fair benefits and salary.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. Jesse Davis , Entrustet.

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Small Business Force

JANUARY 9, 2012

Your first good review by some industry press. Now, as your small business has slowly grown, maybe even added a bunch of employees, do you still celebrate small victories? It provides the opportunity to recognize what individual or team achievement means to the company's success. You know the ones. Like your first customer.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Youll estimate time and cost better. Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

There are three fundamental situations that change what your company needs to do: creating a new market (the original Palm), bringing a new product to an existing market (Handspring), and resegmenting an existing market (niche, like In-n-Out Burger; or low-cost, like Southwest Airlines). What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. Thats why we need continuous integration and test-driven development. First of all, its a myth that cutting corners saves time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

But when there is a task half-done, its actually slowing the team down. Imagine a team working from a forced-rank priority queue. Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. Not necessarily.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

However, nowhere has as many real estate agents, lawyers, accountants, landlords, employees, co-founders, mentors, and VCs all steeped in startup culture as does Silicon Valley. Honestly assess your own strengths and weaknesses thoroughly. The ecosystem is just hard to beat. And how do you do this?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson?

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