The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

In 2010, Kranthi was hired as a full-time software engineer by International Technological University (ITU), the Silicon Valley industry-oriented school where he had earned his second MS degree. Looking to Solve Problems. Who better to know the needs of students, teachers, and staff than a university?

Technical Review 116

Technical Review CTO Hire Silicon Valley Software Engineering 116

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2019

Business leaders must change how they hire and train employees. Employers have long used the college degree as a “signal” (a psychological shortcut we use to make smart decisions) that a candidate is worthy of being hired. This incubation time is needed for the development of insight.

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Artificial Inteligence America Software Review Technical Review 200

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

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Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 429

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Additionally, if there’s an incubator/accelerator in your area, apply! Also, a startup accelerator/incubator isn’t an option. Hiring a Tech Advisor with high coding abilities can also be an option if you have a software team for revision and assessment. You should be able to present your ongoing progress to others. in English.

Software Review 54

Software Review Technical Review CTO Hire San Antonio 54

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. One of the world's leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries, founder space was ranked number one, the number one incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and entrepreneur magazines. How do people find you?

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San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 97

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

They’ve stopped hiring the best talent, and startups are not looking so risky compared to large companies. Startup incubators, business angels and VCs are starting to emerge. Nokia was blind-sided in a classic disruptive innovation. Ultimately, Nokia’s difficulties will turn out to be good news for Finnish entrepreneurs.

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Finland Naming Russia Government 324

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

Chicago’s 1871 Chicago’s Technology and IHCC’s LatinX Incubator Selection. Crain’s Chicago Business named Olga among “Chicago’s Most Powerful Latinos” in 2019. Aspen Ideas Festival Ricardo Salinas Scholar. Diversity MBA Magazine Top 100 Under 50 Executive Leader and Top 100 Women of Influence. Finding capital?

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Founder Chicago Illinois Community 147

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

At Tekes, government employees (and their hired consultants) – with no equity, no risk or reward, no startup or venture capital experience – try to pick startup winners and losers. It’s hard enough to pick which existing companies with known business models to aid. And they should give themselves a 5-10 year plan to do so.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 324

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Of course, if you’re hiring an agency, you’re probably looking at 1.5 million plus overhead. times that amount in total costs.

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Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Participating in office hours at an incubator is an efficient way to to do that short-burst work and fish for founders where there seems to be mutual attraction and the potential for much more than just a hello. Many accelerators and incubators have institutionalized mentoring in the form of EIR’s or similar titles.

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Incubator Vertical Deal Flow Technical Review 48

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2012

There’s a clear roadmap, they know what they’re working on, and they can hire more Portlanders. All Geoloqi’s investors hail from Oregon, and the company was a star of the city’s incubators. “We know we can be [at Esri] for a long time and work on cutting-edge stuff.” It’s a real local success story.

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Portland Oregon Merger Software Developers 163

Steve Blank

JUNE 20, 2022

How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? I just had coffee with Anthony, a friend who was just hired as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a large company (30,000+ people.) Anthony concluded that the incubator in his new company was no exception.

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CTO Technical Cofounder CTO Hire Incubator 354

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. Bob Sutton is a Stanford professor and the author of several best-selling books on standout management, including Scaling Up Excellence , an investigation of high-growth companies.

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Lean Fractional CTO Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 165

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

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Incubator Exit Strategy Institutional Investors Angel Investor 236

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. You can’t get 5 years into one. That’s falling prey to the “ mythical man month &# line of thinking.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Bulgaria Lean 374

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

GRP Partners is looking to hire two analysts (maybe even three) to join our practice in Los Angeles. But every time I do recruiting I get so many applicants that don’t come close to the spec that I feel I have to put up at least some filters to avoid people unlikely to be hired from putting in too much work. Are you merging?

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Los Angeles Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital 290

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. Now if he could just get out of his way by hiring a Tourette’s editor who won’t let him hit publish on his blog or Twitter feed until it has been reviewed. Sounds obvious. I’m one of them. His motives are all the right ones.

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China Incubator Email Portfolio 309

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Hire more non-Partner staff. – Hire more Partners. For a VC fund to be actively engaged in a large number of investments, it needs to hire more Partners to sit on more boards. If you’re thinking of hiring a Partner, I suggest see How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? They might struggle to hire a-players because, well, would you go work at Public Storage to build their software capabilities? ”

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Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2019

Hire the best people. But until you can afford to hire help, you will have to get along on your own. Hire people who are more intelligent and clever than you. My bank turned me down and put me into incubation where they controlled all my cash movements until I had repaid all my loans from them.

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Lean Balance Sheet Bankruptcy Business Model 93

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. You still have some leeway to hire above them if need be. I don’t believe it.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 400

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

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Incubator Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 256

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Austin Technology Incubator is hiring for these positions, so make sure to apply now. IT & Wireless Incubator “Assistant Director&#. ATI’s Wireless and IT incubators have supported an incredible slate of companies in the recent past – Calxeda , GameSalad , Spredfast , qcue and numerous others.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Incubator Due Diligence 70

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. I’ll let you decide which you’d want. Commitment.

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Portfolio Chicago Sales Incubator 364

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2012

There’s a clear roadmap, they know what they’re working on, and they can hire more Portlanders. All Geoloqi’s investors hail from Oregon, and the company was a star of the city’s incubators. “We know we can be [at Esri] for a long time and work on cutting-edge stuff.” It’s a real local success story.

Portland 104

Portland Oregon Merger Software Developers 104

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 4, 2013

The Startup Institute started as a branch of startup incubator TechStars in Boston. The school was grown out of the need of many local startups looking to scale and hire employees, but were not sure where to look. Typically that means companies that have accepted at least some venture funding and are looking to aggressively hire.

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New York Boston New York City Startup 60

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

This Invaluable Lesson Will Keep You From Making Catastrophic Hiring Mistakes - crowdspring.co/XeV4JS. Hiring startup engineers? 1871 Ranks 9th In The World In Survey Of Business Incubators – crowdspring.co/Xe1N6Y. Are startup burn rates out of control? They seem to be | AVC – crowdspring.co/1rbM5FT. 1rgMYgu.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

And to keep executing large organizations hire employees with a range of skills and competencies. They can partner with suppliers, co-create with consumers, open-source key technologies, open their application programming interfaces, or run open incubators for customer ideas. Rent seekers fight to keep the status quo.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. Don’t raise just to get a salary or because you need to pay for servers. Who to raise from?

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Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 103

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Joshua Baer is a serial entrepreneur and founder/Executive Director of Capital Factory , the largest coworking space and tech incubator in Austin. PPS, you should expect to see a lot more writing from both Tushar and I, as well as our recently hired and soon-to-be-announced research associate.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

They don't have to be big, contrived incubators--just a few couches and maybe a plug or two--and open wifi. A lot of schools talk about "access to faculty" as a driver of why startups should involve themselves in school programs, incubators, and competitions. Kick the faculty out. Teach students how to fish in their careers.

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Incubator .Net Cofounder Software Developers 118

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Next, also from Chennai, India, Vivek Ravisankar pitched Interviewstreet.com , a nifty concept for testing programmers' skill levels in various key languages to bypass the lengthy interviewing that goes into screening candidates in a hiring process. You can register for the upcoming roundtables here.

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India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

The increasing engagement of big business engagement with the startup ecosystem through accelerator programmes, incubators and acqui-hires is a reaction to this trend. In this environment every year gets more difficult for those who like to plan, whilst it gets easier for those with a bias to action.

Startup 60

Startup Incubator Technical Review Lean 60

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 27, 2014

Everyone in tech wants more gender balance in the startup ecosystem, but the practical challenges to implementing that goal are complex, and involve many players—from the incubation/hackathon culture, to the VC community, to the startup founders and execs who must hire and manage a (hopefully) gender-balanced team.

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Venture Capital Mexico Incubator Government 88

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Rajan Chandi then discussed HirePlug.com , a Facebook application to help large employers manage referral hiring. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. Doesn't Retek have anything in that product category? HirePlug.com.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

View from Seed

MAY 3, 2016

Today’s guest, Jesse Middleton, is a co-founder of WeWork Labs, the company’s global startup incubator, and currently the head of WeWork X, which includes Labs and also the new WeWork investing and M&A activities. Jesse was also among the first to join the co-founders of WeWork when it started.

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Seed Stage Cofounder Incubator Global 120

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

At Tekes, government employees (and their hired consultants) - with no equity, no risk or reward, no startup or venture capital experience - try to pick startup winners and losers. It's hard enough to pick which existing companies with known business models to aid. And they should give themselves a 5-10 year plan to do so.

Finland 158

Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 158