ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 22, 2019
It’s hard to recruit against a profitable enterprise with a “wow” campus, unmatched employee benefits, and a reputation that’s leagues beyond your tiny new company. In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage. Today, even developing countries have fast wired internet.
Reid Hoffman
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Before the internet, recruiting was a combination of classified job listings and high-end executive search. When the internet arrived, most of the competitors in the jobs space did what people tend to do with any new technology–cut and paste the old business model into a new medium. He was able to raise capital where others couldn’t.
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ConversionXL
JANUARY 21, 2019
Increase brand reputation. This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason [.] She vacationed to a remote location with no internet, only for her social media scheduling tools to stop working the day she left. Retain loyal clients. Increase recurring revenue. What should you apologize for?
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet.
bizthoughts.mikelee.org
MARCH 8, 2012
BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.
The Next Web
JUNE 19, 2012
Both my parents and my sister are software engineers … I actually have female co-founders in my companies – an amazing developer & manager Agata (also included in that Top 100 list) and Socha, an architect-turned-designer. Wanted to be a high-energy physicist and dreamt of working in CERN with the LHC. That it’s sad.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2020
I was not in a city center, and so things like internet and reliable vehicles, all of those things were hard to come by at first. And ended up building this client base and a reputation for doing almost anything that touched electricity. When I first returned to California, I was, again, without job prospects, without a network.
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