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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Fundamentally, lean startups do more with less, because they systematically find and eliminate waste that slows down value creation. Another terrific post, Eric.

Lean 140
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Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

Both Sides of the Table

Admittedly annual pay increases weren’t as much as we would have wanted because these were the lean post dot com days but we at least tried to have Ryan top the range. So we decided to sponsor Ryan to work out of the US in San Francisco. When we started our next company, Koral, Ryan was a co-founder.

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Accelerator Spotlight: I Have This Friend

View from Seed

Founders: Ingrid Hung & Emily Persky . They can’t afford to spend 10% of their $100,000 salary on Interior Design Services alone, but they would certainly be willing and able to spend a few hundred dollars. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . Company: I Have This Friend.

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How I negotiated my startup compensation

keen.io

And if the CEO says, “Salaries will be adjusted to market value soon,” that’s probably a best-case scenario. The founders had been dropping hints that they wanted me to join them. I knew this meant that the founders had come to some conclusion about what to offer, and now I was going to find out what it was. Me: “Cool.

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John Doerr's 10 lean startup tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, October 30, 2008 John Doerrs 10 lean startup tips I just saw video of John Doerrs talk yesterday at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn&# roundtable event. Voluntary salary reduction program. I was impressed enough to transcribe (and paraphrase) the list.

Lean 121
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How To Launch a Startup and Avoid Ending-up in Jail

Scott Edward Walker

Introduction I love working with startups – and trying to protect founders and watch their backs. Indeed, in a world of easy access to online documents, it is often this legal compliance which is overlooked by founders, as they attempt to stay “lean” and “scrappy” (and sometimes even handle the legal work themselves or through a web service).

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It After years of the San Francisco Bay Area dominating the tech start-up scene, with huge smashes such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, entrepreneurs are finding they can go elsewhere to grow and prosper. But there will be," Citron says.