1992 Hiring Partner 
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 10, 2014
What do we want our partners and clients to say about us? Hire people who care. So from now on, place “capacity for caring” on the list of non-negotiable qualifications for all new hires — right up there with experience and technical competency. Hiring a few caring employees can have an amazing ripple effect! Be generous.
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 31, 2021
Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. John has invested in various small businesses and served as a mentor and branding authority since his beginnings in 1992.
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K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 My second employee signed the H1-B petition on behalf of the company so that I could be hired by my own company! to attend Carnegie Mellon University.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong. Research in Motion (RIM).
Steve Blank
AUGUST 5, 2014
Also the adage As hire As, Bs hire Cs—absolutely true—be careful of the company you keep, And what goes around comes around. Two companies I helped start in 1992, DCTM and Grand Junction Networks both became Stanford business school cases and very valuable, successful companies. I was on the way to my lifetime IRR of 90%.
www.singlefounder.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Myth #3: I need a partner. It’s a common belief that having a partner allows a company to become more successful because the duo can feed off each others’ ideas and make them better. Partners can not only feed off each other, but they will help bolster one another when the going gets tough. Really big. Filo and Yang.
Up and Running
APRIL 4, 2014
Part of the problem was that the company bought into its own hype, but the bigger sin was that Pets.com’s owners—Hummer Winblad Venture Partners—ignored the fundamentals. New Coke was rebranded Coca-Cola II in 1992. But that all changed when the company hired former Apple retail boss Ron Johnson to take over as CEO in November 2011.
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