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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to a private sitting with the president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, along with 18 other entrepreneurs. It is safe.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. .” Should I hire or not hire this person?

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

China and South Korea are starting their factories up again. As part of these operating changes, make sure your heads of HR and finance recognize that they have entirely new jobs. Or if you have sufficient cash, now is the time to hire great people who were never available. are about to face a moral dilemma.

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The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summit

Cracking the Code

As soon as you’ve climbed the Sales Learning Curve, begin ramping your sales force by hiring renewal-oriented account managers. Only after reaching $1M MRR, consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Yahoo Finance. “Bookings” is for suckers. Separate your hunters and farmers.