YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2019

Anyone whose work touches customers should know and feel your brand. After four weeks of paid training, each new hire is given this offer: “If you quit today, we will give you a $1,000 bonus.” In your case, what ritual might immerse employees in your brand? Customers seek you out. Trader Joe’s.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. This is where you’ll find the most experienced, most ambitious, top employees.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

If you think you might be paying too much for your service and don’t feel like dealing with Comcast’s customer service, let Trim’s robot give it a shot. Geekwire named Outreach one of the top 10 transformational Seattle startups , and Top Hat got some great press from the Globe and Mail and Financial Post for its success in the Edtech market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Her background includes 20 years of HR, customer service and business leadership – an ideal balance of human capital and business perspective.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

Can upstart ecosystems in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, or Seattle churn out tomorrow’s billion dollar tech companies? When it comes to hiring, start-ups located outside of Silicon Valley have an initial advantage, because there’s a lot less competition for engineers. But there are some considerations….

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

WeGoLook began as a type of social entrepreneurship by creating a valuable service that is available to customers around the entire world, providing career paths to over 110 employees and supplemental income to over 30,000 nationwide agents (Lookers). Image Credit: Seattle Sutton. Thanks to Seattle Sutton ! #8

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Adamac Attack! Either way, its a sign that something is amiss. leadership) problem.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But I know when we enter the real world, A, that’s not everybody, and then B, we have work to do, results to get, clients or customers to serve. Klaviyo helps you build meaningful customer relationships by listening and understanding queues from your customers. It’s embedded in this idea of like the mystical muse.

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2019

Pricing models and customer acquisition. So instead of paying once for a lifetime of use, your customer pays on an ongoing basis—usually monthly or annually. It’s a popular model because of the increased potential lifetime value of each customer. SaaS products often use a subscription-based pricing model. Starting with an MVP.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2012

Many companies are seeing the benefit of “homesourcing” instead of “outsourcing” because overhead is reduced, and customers get to speak to local operators who understand the language and culture. They’re hired to set up displays, check prices on items, and shelve products like magazines, food items, and greeting cards. Merchandising.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

Clearly these two companies are exceptions to the rule, and both have grown dramatically in terms of customers, revenues and footprint in just a few years. In fact, there was a time when I had employees who were graduates of Harvard and were using Facebook, and I wasn't able to use it myself. Just look at Groupon or Facebook.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

No matter how hard you work to improve your social media engagement, online reviews, or customer satisfaction, it can all be undone if you don’t follow these five important offline marketing strategies. #1 The brand experience you sell online should match up with the one which you offer customers in real life.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 25, 2018

Amazon announced they’re going to be creating a second headquarters to rival their current HQ in Seattle, and they issued a gigantic RFP to the nation’s cities to determine which city will give them the best deals and tax incentives be the best for their employees and customers. Well, I’m not.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Scaling a people-intensive business requires hiring and retaining exceptional talent. In 2011, “I was speaking at Mozcon in Seattle,” remembers Conversion.com ’s Stephen Pavlovich. That person referred us to a former employee there who had just returned to big company life. Spoiler alert: It all comes down to people.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

By which I meannot that it has to make something physical, but that it has to haveone thing it sells to many people, rather than doing custom workfor individual clients. Custom work doesnt scale. An advantage of consulting, as a way to develop a product, is thatyou know youre making something at least one customer wants.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Nudge is a fast pace, but still insightful with real world examples that you can apply her recent issue, talked about the, the idea of getting your customers, your prospects, in the habit of buying from you, or listening to you or following you. You have to balance that because without restaurants you kinda ha not gonna have customers.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

We’ve done this through our seed investments as well as through our activity at TechStars, starting in Boulder, then expanding to Boston, Seattle and New York. By trying more things in a short period of time, they can adopt their product better to the market and their customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

They were growing, hiring new people, and breaking ground on a new location. Facebook is not a client of mine, but I just happen to have a friend who works in IT there and told me that they had already been sheltering in place because they have a lot of workers in Seattle, but my friend Emmett is the CEO of Twitch. There's just no way.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Scaling a people-intensive business requires hiring and retaining exceptional talent. In 2011, “I was speaking at Mozcon in Seattle,” remembers Conversion.com ’s Stephen Pavlovich. That person referred us to a former employee there who had just returned to big company life. Spoiler alert: It all comes down to people.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. Edmonton also has a number of high-quality post-secondary schools that continually add many highly-skilled employees to the job market.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? or Seattle. The biggest value I can probably offer you is that I would talk about what youre working on.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. Edmonton also has a number of high-quality post-secondary schools that continually add many highly-skilled employees to the job market.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I don’t actually have any employees. I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have that contractor doing customer support. The deal went through, I bought the website, and eventually hired a team of writers. I’m the content creator.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. It’s fucking hard hiring right now.&#. Imagine your company hiring in the Valley.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Were hiring. The death of Memamp, or ‘Reddit’s first employee’ The people that you meet on a program such as Y Combinator can be as important, if not more so, than the program itself. I was reddit’s first employee about 2 months later,” Chris tells me. Looking Back at Our First 1,000 Customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Upon graduating, he went to work at Microsoft.

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