A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. So to everyone at WP Engine, let me repeat the message from one year ago: Look what we did ! Period, full-stop.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2018

While Silicon Valley has grown to have global influence, in many ways the cultural leadership from the venture community has dramatically shrunk in the last decade. Ben Wegbreit, the VP of Engineering (one of my mentors and then co-founder of Epiphany), broke his foot skiing just as the company started. And back then they were all men.)

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 13, 2015

The question is: How do you decide what role is most important to hire for? If I hire someone to do X, I’ll have time for Y and Z. Hire the best person for that role. Examples: You hire the VP of Engineering for Facebook. Now you can scale anything — both computers and people — inside your engineering department.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 19, 2019

Chinese factories also reverse engineer really well. These include sites like Alibaba , Global Sources , Made in China and Global Market. Sourcing your product manufacturing is complex given the global economic and trade complexities. When startups outsource manufacturing to China, it helps them focus on growth back home.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And truly, the development of tech, inclusive regulations, and an open global market did make the job of starting a company easier than ever before. The startups that play too safe and don’t take any active steps to meet these goals are making themselves vulnerable to the harsh realities of the globalized economy.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

So in terms of hiring, get people that can help you build the product faster… anything that minimizes the time between observing a need or a problem, and the execution or the fix for it.” Kawasaki’s Law of Pre-Money Valuation: for every full-time engineer, add $500,000; for every full-time M.B.A., subtract $250,000. What matters most?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” This was a very large and established tech company; its engineering organization developed the core day-to-day capabilities of the organization. There’s a much better way.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It is a repository of global data that has as its primary purpose to quantify the role of digital in the consumer journey from research to purchase. That also applies to the consumer Search behavior (#4 below) which includes all search engines and not just Google. What is the role of Search Engines in the purchase process?

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Jun 21, 2013. Enter recruiters or HR people.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2020

To begin again, to start anew, to have a fresh, blank slate — the corporate advantages of hiring entry level employees, strong professionals at their career beginnings, seem self-explanatory. In any economy, successful entry-level hiring is a crucial aspect of corporate success. Onboarding at the entry level can be resource intensive.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Freed is a global thinker and living proof that purpose-driven businesses transform lives. By redistributing these products to colleges and universities, EAL generated financial aid for 1,132 students seeking degrees from welding to healthcare, from engineering to robotics–the very subjects that will fuel economic development.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. You will hire (over time) and manage a field and inside team of Sales Directors and Market Developers, including for each direct report creating and managing goals directly tied to Company goals. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting. This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2020

Fortunately, there are inexpensive but straightforward ways to gain exposure during the initial stages of starting up the company: Be Visible In Search: Visibility and ranking in search engines are crucial for businesses who want to gain exposure and become more competitive in their industry. Improve Your Bottomline.

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Transformify

JULY 13, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. What does diversity hiring mean to startups? Entrepreneurs need to understand the dynamics of their teams and hire accordingly to compensate any deficiencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You hire people who look good on paper. Which engineers dialed it in before a big release because it was during July 4th weekend? ” Who cut you in on their bonus because even though you’re “just an sales engineer” they know you really deserved more credit for this deal. After 6 months – you know.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This divide between America’s doggedly industrious approach on the one hand, and the less-relentless global approach on the other, might make it seem that a corporate culture developed for a U.S. I was a founder and former CEO of Mustang Engineering, and from 2005 through 2014, Mustang opened several international offices.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

New wave tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter have to hire thousands of developers with six-figure salaries to offer products that work well. Most companies don’t have the cash or bandwidth to support long development cycles and hire boatloads of developers. The risk versus reward equation points to Levittown software.

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Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2021

If yes, then you might want to expand your brand in the global market. To successfully launch your business, you will need to invest time and effort in your search engine optimization (SEO). These are just some of the issues that a good multilingual SEO can solve for your global business. Next is promotion.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

Experts also predict that freelancers will comprise around half of the global workforce in the coming years. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. These platforms provide employers with an advantage in terms of hiring and managing employees, while ensuring that all payments due are transparent, accurate, and on time.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In a study by Global Workplace Analytics , 82% of employees reveal they want to continue working from home even after the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, an effective workforce management system lets you easily source, track, and hire top talents in just a few clicks. Onboarding. Scheduling and time tracking.

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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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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. However, global businesses evaluate a variety of considerations before expanding their operations into a new market. Emerging Markets As The Pocket Full Of Potential.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. Since its inception, iRobot has sold over 30 million robots globally. UEC Electronics — Engineering contracts.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

Sure, the domestic and global economies are in the tank. Many of the jobs advertised on company pages are for computer engineering, data analysts, and operations. If you have a background in those fields and enough experience – you could be the next quality candidate hired by your local (or international) sportsbook.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2023

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 11- Global odyssey beyond 100 countries Photo Credit: Nadia Podrabinek By 2024 , I aim to have visited 100 countries and charted unexplored territories beyond conventional travel circuits.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In its 2017 Global Human Capital Trends , Deloitte urges managers to stop viewing jobs as the basic unit of work and to instead break jobs down into tasks. The key to this step is to identify where you could benefit from skills at a much higher level than you can buy (full-time hires) and should instead rent (offer a gig).

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 4, 2020

Search Engine Optimization. Companies everywhere should think about investing in Search Engine Optimization. With this strategy, businesses can increase their search results on popular search engines like Google. Different platforms connect global communities every day. SEO is the marketing tool of the future.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2020

One introverted engineer client told me he would never be a manager in his company. Bringing on great introvert talent – Shallow first impressions and personality biases that favor extroverts often play too large a role in hiring and promotion decisions. In many cultures, introverts have very little chance to be heard.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2022

Advertisements, search engines, and social media all give businesses the chance to increase brand awareness and market influence. Only a few years ago, it was common practice for new businesses to instantly hire staff to handle administrative duties. Digital enterprises have the ability to contact a large number of people.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2019

Thanks to the spread of globalization, the world is getting smaller and smaller. At the same time, companies that want to hire workers abroad have new options. Once, only the biggest companies could afford a truly global workforce because the expense of opening an entity abroad was prohibitive to most companies.

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Transformify

JANUARY 31, 2024

With skilled workers harder to find than ever and competition for top talent fiercer than ever, AI-powered tools are no longer optional; they're essential for optimizing your hiring process and securing the best individuals. And this guide is your roadmap to unlocking the full potential of AI in your hiring game.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In 2019, did you… Hire slow and fire fast? (Or That’s why you should hire only people who will fit in with the culture you’re creating — and get rid of bullies and others who create a toxic culture. You may be reluctant to fire someone you yourself hired, but don’t wait till they do maximum damage.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ).

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Needless to say I think Ryan is one of the most talented engineering leads in LA but I’d stack him against anybody in the Valley, too.

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