www.xconomy.com
JUNE 9, 2012
Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. Coats says a final bit of inspiration actually came from reading “Moneyball,” which describes how the Oakland A’s used “Sabermetrics”—essentially a whole new dimension of player statistics—to upend 100 years of conventional wisdom about evaluating baseball players.
techcocktail.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
As you grow, think about the right timing for bringing on more people with specific roles, but remember – hire slow, fire fast. As Tony Hsieh of Zappos pointed out during his DCWEEK visit, bad hires have accounted for millions of lost dollars through the years. So if you do find your duplicate, hire them as soon as possible.
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crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 26, 2010
The restaurant business, traditionally a hothouse for entrepreneurism, suffered greatly in the current downturn but is rebounding, with industry-wide sales trending upwards over 2009 and restaurants hiring again, albeit slowly. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year.
crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 26, 2010
The restaurant business, traditionally a hothouse for entrepreneurism, suffered greatly in the current downturn but is rebounding, with industry-wide sales trending upwards over 2009 and restaurants hiring again, albeit slowly. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year.
BeyondVC
JANUARY 15, 2006
Sure, the next-generation web is cheap. I have written about this in a prior post, Web as Platform. All that being said, despite the next generation web about being cheap, the costs are rising quickly as the big dogs with hordes of cash are not afraid to spend it to stockpile their talent.
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen. It’s about the Oakland A’s and their General Manager Billy Beane. Web analytics tell you what visitors are doing, but usability testing tells you why. Hire a conversion expert that will do it for you. Good design isn’t. Good design is problem solving.”. –
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2020
They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. Irma Olguin : I was earning these contracts, these web development contracts, and then being relatively desperate and new, building out my network. OnwardUS is a web-based platform.
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