Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Capturing market space versus Russia, for instance. We have rather Byzantine hiring processes. We are tracking 37 initiatives across DOD focused on four main areas. Designing in exploitability early in programs. Facilitating technical release ability. And increasing industrial capacity. But you have to connect with people.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

For example, in an area known for a high crime rate, security guards can be hired and other measures taken. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.) Arab countries, stretching from Morocco to the Persian Gulf, have a combined population of about 350 million, with combined GDP equal to nearly 40% of China’s.).

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Technical Review Egypt Russia Morocco 172

Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

One of their secret: acqui- hiring. The most common solution is not necessarily the easiest, where companies hire a manager with expertise or a network in the chosen country, and enable him or her to hire a team of two or three people as support to get started. But, this is a highly emotional process for the acqui-hired team.

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Italy Technical Review Germany Poland 59

A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. Mistakes of Hiring Like most founding employees, people tend to ask me what lessons I learned throughout my tenure at the company (hence, this post).

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

" Let's look at the actual data by comparing USA and Russia. For example, if you are in Russia and an ecommerce business, it is even more important to have a well thought out mobile strategy. In Russia, that would mean figuring out how to be "communicators first." Pretty cool context, right?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. 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.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 158

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I feel confident that money was his motivation in running for President and in doing whatever it is he did with Russia. I feel confident that money was his [Trump] motivation in running for President and in doing whatever it is he did with Russia.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2011

5 things that suck (about hiring new employees) and 10 things companies can do about it – [link]. 5 things that suck (about hiring new employees) and 10 things companies can do about it – [link]. This would be a fun way to get to work: In Central Russia, DIY Motorized Propellers Ski You! – [link].

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Magento e-commerce system is not very common in Russia where there are few serious implementations in domestic e-commerce, and there are almost no competent developers either. For instance, you can hire a dedicated magento developer at Elogic. But in the world of CMS, Magento development now occupies a leading position.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Having said that you can also find the most narrow-minded people from the U.S – people who talk about wanting to do business in Russia or China without ever visiting these countries. The cheapest way to get that knowledge is to hire those people into your company. Some of the European countries are extremely active socially.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Countries such as the UK , Russia and Finland are trying to replicate its ecosystem, to stimulate their local industries. More events, money and startups, means more competition, making it all the more necessary to stand out by hiring outstanding people, being more ambitious, more risk-taking. Silicon Valley is a hub. Bigger is Better.

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Babbling VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

You will be responsible for their hiring and will carry responsibility for total revenue of the sales department. . Sales is focussed on Europe, specifically the DACH region, UK, France, Sweden and Russia. . Travel will amount to approximately 60% of your time in the first 9 months. . The department will eventually grow to 3 people.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 7, 2011

One of our top goals was always to have a New York showroom, especially one who had established relationships with the top accounts from Europe, the Middle East and Russia. Before starting my handbag company, I worked at management in Nordstrom and had to hire and fire at least 100 people during my tenure.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In the board meeting I had explained to the board that the Twitter accounts were geo-coded with locations in Russia, so it was likely a Russian hacker and a focused attack that had nothing to do with the company. One of the board members was emotional. “I don’t give a s**t – just fix it!

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Should you hire another programmer? So youll be willing for example to hire another programmer, who wont contribute to this weeks growth but perhaps in a month will have implemented some new feature that will get you more users. 14 ] I once explained this to some founders who had recently arrived from Russia.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

Several of our companies have had great success in Eastern Europe and Russia with technical teams. I’ve found that secondary/tertiary US cities work better than international locations, with the exception of software/hardware engineering locations. China and India work, but seem to be harder and more hit or miss.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They are smart, talented, easy to find and hire and they work for very reasonable pay. As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia. Excellent offshore developers are sometimes easy to come by, but hiring good managers is never easy and not nearly as cheap.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Particularly given that both China and Russia are going to be leveraging these technologies in ways that are really counter to our Western values in terms of surveillance systems and without respect for personal privacy and all kinds of things. Here are the best practices in terms of how to approach the hiring process.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? I’m trying to be optimistic. David Zhang.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 22, 2018

Good insights … Why + How My Acqui-hire Failed (And What You Can Learn) – [link] pic.twitter.com/6Oo34SEjGH. Photos: Soccer Fields Around the World – As the 2018 World Cup kicks off in massive arenas in Russia, 31 images of some smaller and more unusual venues around the world: [link] pic.twitter.com/DpDJLdSbkv.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

The babysitter my father hired had a highly effective technique for placating young boys, which was to let them slay monsters and win treasure in a fantasy world. Napoleon failed in Russia because his supply chains failed during the frigid Russian winter. GAME #2: RUNEQUEST.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 22, 2018

Good insights … Why + How My Acqui-hire Failed (And What You Can Learn) – [link] pic.twitter.com/6Oo34SEjGH. Photos: Soccer Fields Around the World – As the 2018 World Cup kicks off in massive arenas in Russia, 31 images of some smaller and more unusual venues around the world: [link] pic.twitter.com/DpDJLdSbkv.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Ultimately, we were able to land three top developers — one from Thailand, one from Russia, and the overall hackathon winner from Korea. The recruiting process shouldn’t simply be about putting up a job posting or hiring a recruiter. First of all, don’t bother with hiring recruiters in Asia, they’re cheap and there’s a reason for that.

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VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

Snapchat is also concerned from getting every feature copied by Facebook, so it recently acqui-hired the team behind Strong.Code , a way to protect software against reverse engineering by obscuring the code. Teenagers replaced texting with Snapchat, but it’s still “only” around 166 millions daily active users. Amazon Anytime.

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Social Network Russia Mobile Japan 74

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In addition, the competition for and the cost of hiring people, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, has gone up dramatically. A lot of this capital is coming from non-traditional geographies like China, Russia, Middle East, India. Increased competition for Series A means company needed more traction.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

It's never selfish to hire. My grandparents were forced from Russia. I said, "Hire people. Hire them to do whatever you can find them to do." So anything you can do to keep them hired, you just improved their sanity. It's never selfish to hire. Wars have been fought. It's either leave or die.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

We had a good product that worked well in France, so we expanded it across Europe between 2011 and 2014, before moving to a more global scale, launching in Russia, Mexico, and India. We used different playbooks to scale, either hiring someone local, sending someone from HQ to set up a country, or acqui-hiring.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Many start-ups are going through ups and downs and this change would both incentivize them to hire more when things are going well and lay off less people in the downturns Examples from other countries: Russia reduced IT companies’ social contributions from 30% to 14% until the end of year 2017 2.

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Up and Running

MAY 25, 2012

When it comes to expansion, owners invariably find themselves dreaming of an accelerated state of operations which includes extensive research, game-changing product innovation, new hiring, training and daily decision making. And oh yes… travel. Get them excited about what you’re doing. Do what visionaries do. Make it personal.

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Guatemala Japan China Vietnam 94

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Any business can hire a botnet or, in some cases, even genuine people to maliciously click ads. We found a range of providers, mainly in Russia, that were as low as $100/day to eliminate your competitors from the ad auction. When the fraud hit, that fell to just a few hundred pounds of revenue a day and a ton of wasted spend.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2015

You can hire community managers who respond to customer service needs in real-time so that your brand presence is both real and virtual. Aruna Naomi Inalsingh of Ani Marketing Service has been practicing marketing for over 20 years, helping private, public, and start-up companies in the US, UK, Asia, and Russia increase their revenue streams.

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Marketing Social Media Turkey Russia 28

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. That approach doesn’t work anymore.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Serving as the founder of TalentCulture and #WorkTrends Community has allowed her to collaborate with top brands like IBM, Google and Microsoft in letting them scout and hire excellent talent. Biro is a one-woman army who is a world-renowned HR Tech and talent management brand strategist, digital catalyst, analyst, author and speaker.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. Related to this post I also suggest 1) the StartupTools wiki (started by the awesome guys at Songkick) [link] 2) an post I read last night about how to hire a programmer to make your idea happen ( [link] ). 114 submissions and a professional logo in less than a week. Total cost: $5000.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) I made them a pretty good offer – hire me as a training instructor at the salary they were [.]

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Were hiring. The Next Web. TNW Conference. Part of The Next Web family. Twitter Now Available In Basque, Czech and Greek. Why is Apple ditching the YouTube app from iOS 6? Twissues: Search and Archive all Your Tweets. Save to read later. or copy the link. Copy-paste link. Latin America. Middle East. 5th August 2012 by Christopher Jackson.

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