Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

I went to Nigeria to meet that first cohort, interview them and try to pick four from the six. A college degree is great if you’re looking to get hired. We were looking for four students for the program, four developers in training, and we ended up getting 700 applicants in a week. We got that down to six finalists.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Learn how acquisitions can usher in new eras of growth and hiring, how to nurture existing cultures, how to merge different ways of thinking when the acquiring company doesn’t have tech roots, and how to deploy strategies for future success. These are 3 successful Austin CEOs who have built significant consumer-facing tech businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

But if you’ve applied Lean Startup ideas, and you have experience to share that other people can use, our attendees may derive inspiration from an unusual context, like a story from the pharmaceutical industry or a startup in Nigeria. The talks l inked here all all t a ke you to videos from last year.)

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

We want to empower you to write your own business plan, but we know that there are times when it makes sense to hire help. And before you hire someone to write your business plan, consider how much you are willing to pay and what kind of results you want to see from them. If you’re starting a business outside of the U.S.,

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

I used my experience gained while hiring, creating job descriptions, interviewing, and being part of several promotional processes to start a coaching business which I absolutely love. I grew up in Nigeria, and have seen up close the health and safety concerns posed by communities lacking clean toilets and running water.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When I returned to Nigeria from Germany looking to create a dedicated (online) hotel booking agency for Nigerians, I wanted my company to communicate in the simplest terms possible what our value proposition was. We are committed to delivering affordable and convenient bookings to our customers anywhere in Nigeria.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

How do you hire? I’m on there as a mentor, and I’m mentoring a guy in Nigeria, who’s starting a business. Do you want someone that has access to resources that you may not have access to? Do you want someone who’s really just a kick-ass leader, and you want to be mentored on how to manage people? How do you fire? How do you promote?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Now we see weird case of designer from Nigeria collaborating with APP developer from Romania building a product which Intellectual Property is registered in Netherlands and LLC registered in Boston. Just how cool is that? The tech world is very complex, competitive and expensive, you need to get all of the help you can.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

According to Toni Schneider, a Partner at True Ventures, and a Team-Lead at Automattic, boundaryless teams confer a real advantage; “You can hire great people wherever you find them: Once your company is untethered from one physical location, your pool of available job applicants becomes the entire world.

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