mashable.com
MAY 9, 2011
Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.” These hires were definitely not your standard marketing types.
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This is going to be BIG.
OCTOBER 10, 2010
He thinks about how he can offer solutions, not create more problems like RSS readers did. That’s something that a business founder might have some ideas about, but it really takes a product manager to weigh resource constraints, internal input, customer demands, etc. to put together a product plan. To the point?
Up and Running
DECEMBER 19, 2013
Trello : “We use this on the dev team to manage and organize our projects. I like the Kanban board design for project management, which makes it easy to organize tasks by what stage of completion they’re in. ” -Bailey Koharchick, Marketing Manager. For Operations. ” -Mike Wheeler, Lead Web Developer.
Steve Blank
JUNE 25, 2009
Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products. Help them?!!
Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
Every startup has some methodology for product development, launch and life-cycle management. Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. Read the preceding sentence again. It’s a big idea.) before you ship.
www.ericsink.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV. In the many e-mails I received about that column, one of the most common questions was why didnt I list any hiring mistakes. Ill start with four general guidelines for how to proceed with a hiring decision.
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