Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

The CFO asked me to stay as one of the engineering directors came in for a meeting. The director had complained to his boss, the VP of Engineering, who admitted his hands were tied, as this was a “facilities matter,” and the VP of facilities reported to the CFO. And those early employees got rewarded as their stock turned into cash.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named”. You find early stage employees expecting to work normal hours, to get paid a regular salary, and not asking or expecting equity. Lessons Learned.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

“It kinda sucks to be engineer #1.”. That’s what a couple of my friends – engineers at Google and Bloomberg who have been following the rise of startup culture with intrigue – told me recently. They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Engineer #1?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

Zoom, Slack, Trello, Jira, and Microsoft teams – are all suddenly household names. Announcement: Square lets employees work from home permanently. I thought it might be helpful for people to learn about the process I have found to work best for managing and scaling a distributed engineering team – this is how we run Turing.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Many employees’ expectations of a healthy work-life balance and an ethical workplace culture have shifted as a result of the pandemic. Because employee objectives differ greatly, it’s best to poll your team in order to set expectations and develop effective retention strategies. Establish the Right Company Culture.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 6, 2021

You need the right WFM software, from model management and operations to tracking your employees’ leave. Here are some of the best apps that you can use to help you with everything, from employee attendance to team engagement. Transformify can help build on your human resources, managing all your employees from start to finish.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This could be as simple as painting your storefront or making sure that all of your employees stick to a dress code, but sometimes presentation can go further than that. Having professional photos done of your team, individual employees, and even of your office space can greatly impact the success of your business.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Why Your Startup’s Name Matters. This article is the first in a three-part series about naming your startup; on Thursday, we’ll discuss creating names, and on Friday, we’ll discuss testing names. Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Like Tweet.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Family history lead to a business entity name . My business name came from family tradition. 4- Business naming Facebook groups.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

16 Tips for Picking the Perfect Startup Name. This article is the second in a three-part series about naming your startup; on Wednesday, we discussed why your startup’s name matters , and on Friday, we’ll discuss testing and buying domains. But how do you actually create a name? Like Tweet. Like Tweet.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

These firms are known for their knowledge, solutions, and industry name. They provide access to India’s trained employees and technology. They are good at building websites and mobile apps, as well as product engineering. To provide solutions, their talented employees blend technical competence with creative ideas.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Anyone who has sat stymied with their cursor blinking in a “username” field knows that coming up with a name is harder than you’d think. We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. How Do I Start? Ask yourself: 2.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 25, 2019

As an engineering firm, your reputation is everything, but at the end of the day, you’ll only ever be as good as the quality of your staff. You need talent to build a great reputation, and you need a solid reputation to get the engineers at the top of their game onto your payroll. You can’t have one without the other.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Stuttering Employees Tend to Be More Dedicated. Any firm that’s discounting an applicant because s/he stutters may be losing out on a prized employee. A stuttering job applicant may be just the right kind of employee for your startup. Yes, your startup’s dream-team can have a stuttering employee as well.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 23, 2019

A great one produces happy, engaged employees who give their best efforts, challenge themselves to grow, and consistently meet goals and delight customers. This creates an unparalleled experience for both employees and customers, making both groups feel special, appreciated, and respected. Encourage employees to interview elsewhere?

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Up and Running

JULY 7, 2021

The major advantages are building an active, targeted audience for your website and increasing your visibility to search engines. Among them are advanced analytics, video optimization, search engine optimization, and more. Enter your channel name and upload the profile picture. Set up an account. Now you have a channel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2016

A lot of time can be spent choosing the perfect startup name. Conventional wisdom says that the name should be less than 10 characters, easy to remember, and the.com has to be acquirable. Startup names can be descriptive (PayPal), suggestive (Amazon), or even fanciful (Apple). Unsure if your startup is in need of a new name?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

For example, in hospitality and digital marketing; hospitality and entrepreneurship; hospitality and IT, hospitality and engineering, just to name a few. This creates a sustainable competitive advantage for the business, and ensures a more secured future for stakeholders such as investors, employees, suppliers, and tourism partners.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. businessname #business #entrepreneur #startup #name #compilation #instagram #ceoblognation #blog #newblog #blogpost #livetoday.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about how they came up with a business name, and here are their responses. #1-

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2020

A positive one produces happy, engaged employees who give their best efforts, challenge themselves to grow, and consistently meet goals and delight customers. This creates an unparalleled experience for both employees and customers, making both groups feel special, appreciated, and respected. The good news is that they can change that.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). It wasn’t that I had somehow inherited dumb employees. I wasn’t surprised. That was it.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. Key components of revenue architecture go beyond simply predicting sales to include: the name and attributes of the startup’s category, a messaging matrix, a pricing strategy, a sales strategy and other business model elements.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 12, 2014

This article was originally published on the WP Engine Blog. Can’t be the logo, or even the name. At WP Engine we call these constants our “values” — our inviolable constitution. Calm your freneticTL;DR twitchy-Twitter-brain for five minutes, and let some Chinese philosophy wash over you.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

by Trevor Foster , vice president of finance and innovation at Innovative Employee Solutions. Gig workers, believe it or not, tend to be less expensive and better employees than their full-time peers. Does it make sense to hire a full-time app engineer? Plan to function with more gig workers than full-time employees.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Henry Sy, the guy behind the world-famous SM Malls, is a household name in the Philippines. He has also been named CEO of the Shark Group, a brand consultancy firm. They're also dedicated to giving back to the community and their employees, who each receive three pints of ice cream per day. Trader's Joe is his store's name.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Although help comes in the form of diligent teams and reliable investors, in order to come at par with established names, a startup needs to rope in useful tools and resources which can standardize things. It is a customizable, widget-driven, API-first community platform that enables users to discuss and connect under brand names.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. Key components of revenue architecture go beyond simply predicting sales to include: the name and attributes of the startup’s category, a messaging matrix, a pricing strategy, a sales strategy and other business model elements.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

A $150 llama rental for a photoshoot, $250 for a bagpipe player at a customer picnic, $5,000 for an executive’s tires — these are just some of the most questionable things people have paid for or attempted to pay for, in the name of business. Marketing VAs can handle SEO and content marketing to increase your ranking on search engines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

When you look through the list , you’ll see big names that we’re very pleased we landed, epic companies we really want to hear from, and people we’re particularly excited to present because they have incredible stories to share--and you won’t hear them anyplace else. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As application consumption has moved from behind the protected firewall to outside a company’s trusted perimeter (due to employees adopting SaaS and mobile applications), enterprises have lost visibility and control over their users’ actions. Unfortunately, this policy causes unnecessary friction between employees and IT.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

For our latest webinar, we discussed “How to Lose an Employee in 10 Days,” outlining major mistakes an entrepreneur or CEO should avoid if they want to hold onto valuable employees. Their mantra is “we love employees,” and this mantra really fits their culture. Great movie.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Artificial intelligence is helping level the playing field for companies seeking to compete for search engine results. AI machine learning allows search engines to determine users’ intent when submitting queries, even when queries involve different keywords, using the context of prior searches to deliver more relevant results.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

When an entrepreneur can forecast his next moves, even his/her employees become part of the moves the business makes. A big part of this framework is what we have named our ‘Grow, Build, Expand’ model. This would mean we could hire two more engineers to grow the features of the tool, as well as a designer to focus on the UX/UI.

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