SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder Why you can('t) recruit a technical cofounder AskBob: Where do I find developer cofounder? Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard Need a Technical Co-founder?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The very last email I got from him told me the following: Thank you for your time Tony, I understand everyone wants a huge salary, no risk and a cut of the profits. You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Ryan was the most talented technologist we had hired at BuildOnline. We hired Ryan at a really young age and without a tremendous amount of prior experience. We had a strategy of hiring people really young because we couldn’t afford to hire too many senior people. I knew that meant he wouldn’t come back.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2021

Many business owners launch startups with the intention of running lean—relying on minimal resources to preserve the business for as long as possible. Too many startups hire quickly and with reckless abandon. That’s why customer experience should be one of your top priorities for strategic development. Running Out of Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

With the unlimited access to “how-to” videos and detailed instructions on the Internet, you shouldn’t need to hire experts for most things. Most successful entrepreneurs take only a very minimum salary during the formative business years and reinvest all profits back into the business for organic growth. Marty Zwilling.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

Create a Lean Business Plan. Instead, you can create an alternative to a traditional business plan—a Lean Plan which is easier to adapt throughout the life of your business. Multiply this sum by twelve and add your ideal annual salary. The first step to running your own business is creating a solid plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Guest post by by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. A big part of adopting Lean Startup in an established company involves fundamentally shifting the way organizations manage people and ideas. It translates to our documents but also to our salaries and our equity models. in shaping the company’s POV?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

There are startups out there that are valued at a billion dollars, but because of employee salaries, assets, etc. Lean” doesn’t come to mind when you think of a business that needs trucks, warehouses, cross-docks, and thousands of employees to run efficiently. they still aren’t profitable. You’re going to spend A LOT of time with them.

Early Stage 115

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Lean In, Part II. My post about Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In a couple months ago created some great dialog internally at Return Path. In other words, if all we did was rely on people’s starting salaries, their performance review data, and our standard raise percentages, we would have some level of gender-based inequality.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2011

However, most small businesses and startups ignore training programs altogether, or cobble together ad hoc strategies when on-boarding new hires. Frankly, many companies simply don’t have the time or resources to send their new hires away for days or weeks of formal training before expecting them to start producing a real work-product.

Small Business 88

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Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. And during our first few years we leaned in to help teams find the right home when it didn’t work out for them as an independent company.

Early Stage 117

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Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2016

According to data from PayScale’s salary questionnaire, house cleaners, nationwide, earned an average of $15.09 The people that hire you are taking you into their trust. If you do hire employees, they will also need these characteristics: Trustworthiness. Will you do everything yourself or hire employees?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Hire capable employees with little work experience. This might initially seem counter intuitive, but people with little work experience are looking for entry level positions and salaries, which saves your company money. “Lean is in. More than likely, you can cut back on some meeting time and up time for completing tasks.

South Africa 157

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Austin Startup

MAY 8, 2018

Background reading: Founder Compensation: Cash, Equity, Liquidity Fatal Errors in Early Startup Hiring Early Hires: Options or Stock Given how deeply involved we are with early-stage startups hiring their first key employees, I figured it would be helpful to outline a few key principles to help entrepreneurs navigate the topic.

Employee 48

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Also, creating a quick lean financial forecast will help ensure your business idea is viable and financially sound. In addition to those two types of hired help, you can get free guidance and support from a local SBDC consultant. Your choice here is to either hire an agent or be your own. Name your registered agent.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Even though I had a job and earned a decent salary, I was spinning my wheels just to pay my bills. But I also leaned that is actually ok. During this journey in building (recruiting, hiring, training and managing) e-commerce teams I realized how other e-commerce business owners were struggling to fulfill their marketing needs.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2018

Live by the mantra: be slow to hire and quick to fire. That’s not a knock on anyone you might hire, to be clear. Every new employee you take on adds to your company’s liabilities: salary, benefits, office space, equipment. Maintain your hire-slow approach and you’ll reap another benefit: lower overhead.

Balance Sheet 113

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

But they also need to see a product team , and hiring someone to build your version 1 does not bring you any closer to finding a team. So is there ever a time when it’s wise to hire out your prototype? For example, if you are a service business that has a website, hiring out version 1 makes perfect sense.

Sweat Equity 45

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

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

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 121

keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

And if the CEO says, “Salaries will be adjusted to market value soon,” that’s probably a best-case scenario. And they gave me a choice whether I’d want more stock or a higher salary.” It’s so weird to be negotiating my salary with our friends. It seems like I should take the highest salary and the lowest equity.

Salary 50

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] The response from across the country?

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

The MVP concept, popularized by Eric Rice of Lean Startup , assumes that before going all in and pouring significant sums into product development, you test the grounds with a “beta” version of your product. No hiring or overhead costs for hiring employees. More competitive salaries. On-demand access to talent.

Mobile 81

Mobile Application Development Web Software Review 81

View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

Beyond offering disruptive and fair pricing, we’re becoming the go-to, trusted one-stop shop to discover and hire the talent clients always wanted, but didn’t know how to find and didn’t think they could afford. For creatives, we’re a premium, value-aligned partner to help grow their networks and portfolios, and monetize their passions.

Early Stage 156

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In a big company, you get used to having an IT team around configure your computer, a personnel specialist for hiring and firing, and a marketing team for strategy. In a startup, these don’t exist, and you have forgotten about how to self-learn, and there are no in-house experts to lean on. Highly specialized focus.

Entrepreneur 239

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2019

First is the trend requiring organizations to be more agile, which means hiring more professionals to assist as needed rather than adding highly paid permanent staff. My book explains how to calculate your consulting fees to generate a comfortable salary and enough to cover business expenses. Begin a testimonial file right away.

Agile 100

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 25, 2012

While the company is now profitable and its seven founders are getting paid salaries, that wasn't always the case. An interesting side note is that all of the founders went for nearly 18 months without paying themselves any salary, and then took minimum wage for the next 14 months before slowly ramping up their paychecks. "It

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2012

In a big company, you get used to having an IT team around configure your computer, a personnel specialist for hiring and firing, and a marketing team for strategy. In a startup, these don’t exist, and you have forgotten about how to self-learn, and there are no in-house experts to lean on. Highly specialized focus.

Burn Rate 233

Burn Rate Startup Salary Lean 233

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

With the unlimited access to “how-to” videos and detailed instructions on the Internet, you shouldn’t need to hire experts for most things. Most successful entrepreneurs take only a very minimum salary during the formative business years and reinvest all profits back into the business for organic growth.

Bootstrapping 120

Bootstrapping Hockey Stick Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2011

In a big company, you get used to having an IT team around configure your computer, a personnel specialist for hiring and firing, and a marketing team for strategy. In a startup, these don’t exist, and you have forgotten about how to self-learn, and there are no in-house experts to lean on. Highly specialized focus.

Startup 258

Startup Burn Rate Salary Lean 258

Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

Start with a lean plan if you’re eager to get up and running fast or if you’re simply interested in validating your idea. If you are not a physician or medical professional yourself, your first hire will be a qualified clinical supervisor. If you have the resources starting off, you can simply hire your staff and keep them in-house.

North America 95

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I was able to hire phenomenal software engineers and grow a strong team culture. Although most aren’t in a place to be startup cofounders for financial reasons, I now have access to a large talent pool once I can offer a salary. With all the funded startups that are unable to hire, that’s a huge ace up my sleeve.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2013

In a big company, you get used to having an IT team around configure your computer, a personnel specialist for hiring and firing, and a marketing team for strategy. In a startup, these don’t exist, and you have forgotten about how to self-learn, and there are no in-house experts to lean on. Highly specialized focus.

Entrepreneur 182

Entrepreneur Burn Rate Salary Lean 182

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

The department had hired a recruiter and was interviewing candidates from other chip companies. It turns out that whether they want higher salaries or more help at home, women often find it hard to ask. But Intel was kicking our rear. Now all I needed to do was to learn what a marketeer was supposed to do.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sometimes the consultant has a reasonable basis to think this, since lean startups are programmed to get things for free and may call on the consultant from time to time for free advice. Do the implications of hiring independent contractors differ state to state? Share this: Facebook Email Reddit StumbleUpon.

Equity 40

Equity Vesting Silicon Valley Intellectual Property 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

I like to describe tenacity as “leaning forward.&# It’s those things that you push for – in which you never accept “no&# for an answer. So can all of the constant hiring & firing – the natural churn of an early-stage business. I then covered Street Smarts , Ability to Pivot and Resiliency.

Entrepreneur 288

Entrepreneur Early Stage Leadership Salary 288

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2010

In a big company, you get used to having an IT team around configure your computer, a personnel specialist for hiring and firing, and a marketing team for strategy. In a startup, these don’t exist, and you have forgotten about how to self-learn, and there are no in-house experts to lean on. Highly specialized focus.

Entrepreneur 230

Entrepreneur Burn Rate Salary Lean 230

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

People are trapped at home, they are not getting a salary, and they are afraid to touch another person because no one knows who is and isn’t infected with the virus. A solopreneur is essentially an entrepreneur who does not hire any staff. Implement the “lean startup” philosophy. ” This virus is unmatched.

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