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. With one creative design and one CMS template in WordPress, the SEO team published 29 purchase-intent pages that have created $10M in sales pipeline.

SEO 121

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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.

Small Business 104

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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. The first sale by your newest account rep.

Small Business 36

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Announcement: Square lets employees work from home permanently. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19. Why remote work will persist after the disease dies out.

Silicon Valley 198

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

So I helped, I was one of his first employees and wound up becoming the chief operating officer and running part of the firm and we grew at our peak to around 50 people or so. So when we started we were more broadly leadership development, team development across organizations. And we don’t really have that anymore.

Leadership 72

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. If I get sales I will expand on the site. What is customer development?

Customer Development 168

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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.

Venture Capital 285

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Debugging problems with the dev environment itself is a common form of waste that this practice eliminates. A new employee is more likely to make a mistake than an experienced one, but everyone makes mistakes. Of course, the sales folks had new features as their #1 priority. Top managements #1 was usually ROI.

Software Review 164

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? P.S. For more, here are detailed examples of how this mindset also sets up your sales pitch.

Software Review 325

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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. That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers.

Product Development 88

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell, and frankly who doesn't check out the sales podcast, where host Will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and win big business ineffective and ethical ways. Feel free to give us reviews.

Cofounder 73

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Every week, we bring in business experts to discuss the latest trends in marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Tune in weekly for a fun and informative discussion that will help you grow your business. Jonathan: Yeah, sounds good to me.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Management Startup Hiring 60

Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

Our development team is very careful in choosing development frameworks and tools. Currently, we develop web applications using Symfony (sounds like music!). React can be used as a base in the development of single-page, mobile, or server-rendered applications. Transformify Core. What else matters ?

Management 52

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

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. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization.

Software Review 94

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations.

Cofounder 20

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. Be especially careful with the “sales&# guy here. Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. It depends on what other responsibilities team members have as well.

Cofounder 101

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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?

Java 107

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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.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

CTO Hire 84

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Smart, capable managers would not hesitate to make decisions instead of allowing their employees to make them. This left very smart employees feeling very frustrated because their managers would interfere intermittently and at random moments.

Software Review 285

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