Feld Thoughts

APRIL 1, 2012

Amy and I just spent a week off the grid in Hawaii with my partner Ryan, his wife Katherine, and their son. Last year on spring break we cancelled a trip to Hawaii (with the McIntyres) because of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan. Better than book #1 – more fun, better characters, faster pace.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

I speak from personal experience, since I hired and partnered with a CEO, Jeff Weiner, very successfully at LinkedIn five years after co-founding the company. Couldn’t we just hire a COO and have you stay as CEO?”. My idea when hiring Dan was that I could handle the product, and he could handle everything else. Conclusion.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2014

In the first case, the man I’ll call Zack hired a man Tony to produce and direct a documentary for him in Hawaii, and they signed a contract for a payment of $60,000. I’ve disguised the names and identifying information to protect the victims and the guilty, but the cases are very real.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 28, 2022

Pacific Business News recognized Richie as one of the Top Forty Under 40 “best and brightest young businessmen” in Hawaii. Yeah, it has a good ending, you know, like spoiler alert, but I actually was in, I live in Hawaii. And while I was there, I get this text message saying ballistic missile attack in Hawaii. It was real.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

So I was, I was doing it eight o'clock in the evening in Hawaii and you know, it was kind of boring. Todd Cochrane (14:37): You know, and it's even funny because I hired a service to help me get more interviews. And I did it purely out of selfishness because I do a solo show. And they asked me to write the top six questions.

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Scalable Startup

JUNE 13, 2013

Remember, job boards and online hiring were invented almost 20 years ago and popularized by Monster. Many article point out that networking and referrals are the most effective ways to get hired, and I tend to agree. Online job systems assume the most important factor in hiring is qualifications, and that is far from the truth.

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entrepreMusings

JULY 6, 2013

In contrast, small business owners gave Hawaii, Maine and Rhode Island an “F,” while California and Illinois rounded out the bottom five, both earning a “D” grade. Thumbtack.com is a place where you can hire help locally. The full methodology paper can be found here. What is Thumbtack.com ?

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Managing and Properly Growing The Business – this includes several things, depending on the size of the enterprise: managing employees, administration, hiring, firing, leases, expenses, unhappy employees, fixing other problems, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

I saw some companies that became truly rancid – even one entrepreneur who flew to Hawaii as his company was melting down and got drunk at an M&A meeting to save his team and he ended up not paying his entire team all of their final expense payments but he flew first class to Europe. I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

We put together a solid business plan, worked through our competitive advantages, hired the vendors we needed. After 7 years, we now have over 50 properties under management and we were recently recognized by the Pacific Business News as the 10th fastest growing company in Hawaii. Thanks to Chris Geng, Maui Resort Rentals !

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Transformify

JULY 30, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Lorie, you were raised in Hawaii where inclusion and belonging are a way of life. What does diversity hiring mean to you? in Organizational Behavior.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 16, 2016

Before I started my business I went to a conference in Hawaii called Worthshop and one of the speakers was Jody Burr who talked about finding your inner CEO. We hired an agency to help us with the rebranding efforts and several names were suggested through an in-depth discovery of who we were as a company. 13 – Sparking Lives.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Within a year I hired 92 permanent staff and another 30 full time contractors. I canceled my first ever extended family trip to Hawaii less than a week before going. We hired a new executive management team that had to be stormed, normed and performed. We were now set to close at $46 million in new capital.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 9, 2018

We randomly picked one professor from every PhD granting department listed in the top 260 schools they list, except for Alaska and Hawaii. To come up with who received the emails, what we did was took the US News and World Report. That professor was randomly assigned a student, who sent them one of these emails. Each professor got one email.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

My feeling is, if this business ever grows to the point where I’m hiring staff, I’ll consider changing the name. Before I started my business I went to a conference in Hawaii called Worthshop and one of the speakers was Jody Burr who talked about finding your inner CEO. Even then, I might not.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push A new federal program that lets states give companies financial incentives for hiring jobless people hasnt gained traction, illustrating the complications of government attempts to tackle unemployment. Meanwhile, an Egypt-based, al Qaeda-inspired group claimed responsibility for Fridays attack along the border.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The deal went through, I bought the website, and eventually hired a team of writers. What you can do with a blog that’s got a little bit of traction and a little bit of traffic is hire a team of volunteers. I’d hired the volunteer authors and I had hired Rob to look after them, so this website was passive.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 8, 2018

John Jantsch: I tell you, where I see a ton of growth is I see a lot of organizations hiring videographers and editing teams, because they’re just capturing so much video now. John Jantsch: You know, I’m going to Hawaii in a week or so, and that’s like state number 47 off the checklist. Garrett Moon: Yeah, absolutely.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 23, 2015

” I’ve traveled much and continued to work, spending a lot of time in Hawaii and the Colorado Rockies, so although I vacation minimally the past 14 years, I can live in beautiful places, and my evenings and weekends are spent where I’d want to vacation anyway.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

In California, Washington, Hawaii, Iowa, and Florida, you’ll need a Seller of Travel license. Your initial funding budget will also likely go toward any branding or advertising, and you may also decide to rent office space and hire employees, which is a fairly large expense. Step 6: Choose a location and hire employees.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2012

Apple has hired Aharon Aharon, a veteran player in Israel’s high tech industry, to lead the new development center. Though a global innovator, Apple in 2010 only invested 2% of its revenue in R&D, much lower than other high-tech companies. FLASH COMPANY ANOBIT TO BE APPLE’S FIRST ISRAELI ACQUISITION.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

That way you at least know who your first or second hire should be in your company. ” You’re like, “Oh” and you’re lawyers in Hawaii. The number three reason that Startups fail is having the wrong legal team. It follows one and two which still have to do with team.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. 9- Be the #1 Small Giant in Hawaii. You see like Silicon Valley, Hawaii is becoming its own startup paradise. Thanks to Robert Stolk, Pointer Brand Protection ! #9-

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the city’s tax break deal included provisions that encourage “good faith efforts” to hire locals, there is no binding agreement compelling Twitter to do so and, not surprisingly, the company appears reluctant to engage in the kind of substantial outreach that would prepare Mid-Market residents for entry-level positions in its workforce.

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