Campus Entrepreneurship
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Founders include some Brown University engineering students and and a computer science major at the University of Rhode Island. BTW, we recently posted on the upcoming 2011 Rhode Island Business Plan Competition (which will award nearly $200,000 to start ups in Rhode Island.).
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Will you easily be able to find employees? Can you afford to pay your employees at least the minimum wage? An interior designer was hired to make the space shine. Ultimately, they decided on a location in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, located right off the 95 and on every major bus route. Is safety very important?
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Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 28, 2015
New Hires are Your Best Friend. As your company grows, leverage the new employees that join your team. Outside of marketing, Todd is an adjunct Public Speaking Professor at Bryant University in Rhode Island specializing in introductory, persuasive, informative, and motivational speaking.
Reid Hoffman
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Rule #2: Hire Ms. For most of Silicon Valley’s history, the conventional wisdom on hiring executives into a startup was to quickly bring in an executive who could scale. This meant hiring someone who had experience with much bigger organizations, the idea being that their experience would come in handy at a later stage.
Reid Hoffman
JUNE 8, 2021
And I hired a COO, Belinda Johnson , and she said, “No, if people don’t like you, you should meet with them.” When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement. Our employees, we’re going to create long-term opportunities.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 9, 2020
He also has strongly held ideas about structuring a company to institutionalize these intentions to make sure the next leader, future employees, and the next board will be true to that philosophy. 47:49) Brian on the letter he wrote to employees to announce the layoffs and the response to it. (50:17) 6,000, 7,000 employees.
Reid Hoffman
JUNE 8, 2021
And I hired a COO, Belinda Johnson , and she said, “No, if people don’t like you, you should meet with them.” When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement. Our employees, we’re going to create long-term opportunities.
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