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.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

One thing I learned from there, is that the manager is the first step. And B,The manager often is the one controlling how the money works. So, if the manager’s on board, you’re probably going to start and if not, you’re don’t regardless of the band. So the manager, that’s one thing.

Cofounder 199

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. If you can start getting ROI on a feature in month one of a twelve month project versus waiting until the end, youve comparatively reduced the cost of development by the revenue generated by that feature over 11 months. And then it can get ugly.

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This cost me money! We often think we can change people, even managers. Once again, age and lack of experience reared its ugly head in this regard. They kept changing the responsible investment manager for the deal as well hence we never really knew whom to speak to when we needed something. A lot of it!

Technical Review 76

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

If you just throw a minimum viable product out the door to see what sticks, wont that necessarily be ugly and badly designed? Of course, readers of this blog know that the lean in "lean startup" doesnt refer to cost, but - rather - to Lean Thinking. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

He helps people specialize and position their business in a way that allows them to get more profit, to drive the cost to acquire customers down, to become really known as the expert in their field of specialization. He’s a developer that focuses on helping manufacturing companies cut cost.” Check it out.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 28, 2014

It’s when you look across the entire company, and the non-linear additional effort it takes to not just improve the average experience, but to manage the worst-case experience, that you appreciate the difficulties. Does that give high-scale companies like WP Engine an excuse to have problems?

Technical Review 275

Technical Review Social Media Engineer Cost 275

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. For instance, many a BDC CEO has initiated a consultant to study cost cutting issues before announcing a significant layoff. Thanks for visiting! Once you obtain funding, it will be worse than hitting the Lottery.

Equity 40

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

So typically speaking, the fundamental difference between a WordPress consultant and a WordPress developer that you can hire, and that work is, our guys will walk into a small business and start asking lots of questions, rather than just taking a brief and saying, “Okay, this is the functionality you need. I’ll scope it out.

Community 42

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The reason I love the above view is that for each channel, I'm able to present our management team a simple, yet powerful, understanding of the contribution of our marketing channels – including search. So from the perspective of reporting organic search performance to senior management, you are all set.

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Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

The real estate market was tanking in 2008 and Dean Vagnozzi started having to deal with vacancies and evictions which exposed the ugly side of real estate investing: evicting people, maintenance issues and vacancies. When he hired property managers, they ended up taking the majority of his profits. Tips for New Entrants in CRE.

New York City 135

New York City Marketing Technical Review New York 135

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 4, 2011

As pointed out by Kiss Metrics , there are plenty of ugly sites making millions. Online reputation management and marketing are what position you for success. Anyone that guarantees to improve your income is someone that should be avoided at all cost. And learn simple SEO/reputation management. Take my word for it.

Reputation 99

Reputation SEO Engineer Management 99

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale. Systems were put in place and professional managers with experience in building mission-critical products were hired. Founding Akamai.

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The “system” as it existed at the time broke down, with every point of failure costing innocent lives. Yet when it comes to risk management of user communities – content, community or commerce – failure to be looking around the curve ahead can result in pretty ugly crashes. Empower users to spot and report issues of all kinds.

Startup 98

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 4, 2011

As pointed out by Kiss Metrics , there are plenty of ugly sites making millions. Online reputation management and marketing are what position you for success. Anyone that guarantees to improve your income is someone that should be avoided at all cost. And learn simple SEO/reputation management. Take my word for it.

Reputation 65

Reputation SEO Engineer Management 65

The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

The costs of living are incredibly high and you will compete with the world’s most successful tech businesses for talent. What are the costs of living in Berlin? There already was a lot of talent in Berlin, and it was relatively easy to hire. No one really used a project management solution at home, but there sure was a need.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Cofounder Germany Europe 125

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. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. you can hire for those.

Technical Review 44

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process. If the management team is thinking they’ve made it, the new building is just symptomatic of a company heading for a crash. Are his costs in control? We need our own cafeteria so employees don’t have to leave the building.

Silicon Valley 212

Silicon Valley RSS Lean Agile 212

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). Why would one chose to develop with a particular framework over any other?

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Use the Best Hosting Provider Your Money Can Buy As a startup you are looking for ways to keep the costs down. This is a mistake that will cost you a lot of time, which is more valuable than the money you will spend. Management console that makes tasks easier is one essential that we are waiting for.

EC2 40

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker. ‘It’s called a hack when you do something in an ugly way. via AndrewChen.co).

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

But acrimony isn’t limited to the founding team, and when things go bad with an investor, it can get ugly pretty quickly as evidenced in the case of ArsDigital. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The goals of a venture capitalist are to maximize the return on investments that pan out and minimize the costs of investments that will not. It’s pretty difficult to go out of business when you have money in the bank (amazingly enough, it appears GM may somehow manage this feat).

Software Review 40

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

For instance, my post on Moz about the economics of link building, which included our link-building rates to help readers compare costs, brought me a number of inquiries. Last December, my good friends created this guide , which has already earned more than 40 referring domains: Another hack to cut costs for industry studies?

B2B 142

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.)

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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? Expect it incredibly ugly but functionally working. Youll estimate time and cost better.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 31, 2019

Which I think is what people miss in this, is when I showed up, they had their head of sales in the meeting and the head of sales was trying to hire me to come work for their company because he was so impressed with my persistence. ” Because sometimes, it’s maybe the startup cost but not the ongoing cost.

Sales 53

Sales New York City New York Conversion 53

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

We backed into prices from all sorts of angles, estimating the time-cost of equivalent functionality, competitive offerings, other tools we were potentially displacing -- but in the end, we lobbed a few numbers at them and waited to see if they flinched. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

San Francisco 144

San Francisco Customer Wiki Lean 144

Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Is it fair game to hire employees from your friend’s company? Nevertheless, almost every CEO will be faced with the decision on whether or not to hire an employee out of her friend’s company. When will it cost you a friend? Cathy’s managers will almost certainly tell a different story. Will you still be friends?

Hiring 78

Hiring Sweat Equity Employee Engineer 78

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Almost every PHP-based website is burdened with ugly URLs that contain the name of the file that implements each page. At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Every change required a server restart.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

There simply won’t be soft-landings and acqui-hires for all of them. Others have blamed the brutal hiring environment on everyone being able to start a company — whether they should or not — and argued that concentrating resources on fewer ideas would make the Valley a lot stronger. Source: The Next Web ]. -

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93