K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. 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! I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

It makes sense that such intense competitive pressure drives startup founders to pitch their company to prospective hires in ever more grandiose terms, exaggerate how well their company is “crushing it,” and make their culture sound like the happiest place on earth. What’s more —with an anti-pitch, you’ll stick out from the hiring crowd.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

The enterprise in company form offers a product, a process or service for sale or hires to professionals or individuals, contributing to a community’s overall economic development. from 1997 to 2014. Enterprise is defined as the act of creating, innovating and setting up a business, taking financial risks expecting profits.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. He had introduced the idea that customers don’t buy a product, rather than they hire it for a “job to be done.” Christensen changed the trajectory of my career and was the guide star for my work on innovation. I never got to say thank you. Eye Opening.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Another notable Austin-bred phenomenon is the Alamo Drafthouse — is cinema chain founded in 1997 that is famous for its food and drink service as well as maintaining proper cinema etiquette. Both Whole Foods and the Alamo go to show that Austinites are ready to give a warm welcome to innovative vendors.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I figured if agencies did not want to hire me because I lacked experience I had to create my own. In 1997 at just 42 years old, I suffered a massive heart attack that landed me in the ICU. Photo credit: Alli Rodriguez. I started off with 8 clients and it quickly grew to 30 in one year. Thanks to David Hernandez, lotus823 ! #29-

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

Getting fired from the very company he founded in 1985 before returning to it in 1997 to save it from financial ruin. The cliche goes, “you get what you pay for,” and in the field of computer software, Jobs believed this was absolutely true when it came to who he hired and kept on at his companies. That trauma?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In 1997, McKay co-founded junior mineral resource company, Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. In that case, it’s important to hire people who compliment and enhance your skill sets but most importantly also bring additional skill sets to the business. acting as a board member and shareholder until the company’s eventual sale in 2017.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2010

Read Jeff Bezos’ 3-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. The CEO is responsible for the executive team plus the fundamental interview and hiring processes for all employees. Companies can take as long as they need to tell it, but they must tell it and it must be compelling. Want to see a great company story?

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Related Tools Annual Meeting Checklist. Mediation and Arbitration Agreement -- Sample. Letter of Intent for a Business Venture.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. But not for the faint hearted.&#. You’re in for the Ride.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

Fast forward to 1997. Long story short, Inktomi acqui-hired me and my puny search engine software (not the site, which earned me some nice cash on the side from ads). I started coding in the 80s. No web, no connectivity for the most part, just simple games, random programs, hardware drivers, random utilities.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Since 1997, women-owned businesses rose by 68 percent. Protect their sanity from the clients who want to chew them up and from new hires who don’t fit in and hurt morale. Hire an accountant to handle the financials. As for employees, take the time to hire competent people who you’ll trust in their jobs – and then trust them!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

And even the best of us make bad hiring decisions. He started his first company in 1997 at the age of 14 and has also served in leadership roles at Stardoll and Advertigo. ([link]. 05:00 PM: Eight Ways to Deal with Bastards – If 99% of your customers are fantastic, you’re still going to deal with bastards.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Many business leaders view their corporate culture as so important that they make it a point to hire people who are a good fit for that culture – and jettison any employees who aren’t. by Bill Higgs, author of the upcoming book “ Culture Code Champions: 7 Steps to Scale & Succeed in Your Business ”. At Boeing, engineers were king.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

That''s a 6% annual increase since 1997 when I started and it was $16,000 a year. Hell, it would be cheaper just to hire private tutors in every subject and pay for the kid to live in a cheap apartment somewhere. I just looked up how much my alma mater costs in tuition. There''s no way the college cost bubble won''t implode.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having DFS was formed in 1997 to provide Dell customers the best financing options. having the honor to work for two third-stage companies, Apple and Dell.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

1980-1997), you are now part of the largest generation in the workforce? Negative feedback about them can be a big red flag for recruiters and hiring managers. Rose also co-authored the book, “ Hiring Millennials: The Generation That Changes Everything ”. Did you know that, as a member of the millennial generation (b.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. But not for the faint hearted.&#. You’re in for the Ride.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

So we try to hire leaders, no matter what role we want them to fill. When I think of servant leadership I think of Pat Summitt, my basketball coach at the University of Tennessee from 1997 to 2001. We want each of our people to realize they have the potential to be a leader. Pat was more than our coach.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 27, 2025

Whether you’re hiring Gen Z employees or marketing to them, the key lies in understanding the intersection of personal branding and company identity. Len Silvermans insights are a wake-up call for any business that wants to stay relevant, both in the hiring market and in customer engagement. Is that who we're talking about?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” Many companies have hired ahead of their growth rate because they had the cash to do so. I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. We entrepreneurs have been spinning that line for decades in every boom cycle. It’s simply not true.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 7, 2015

Back in 1997, the Nielsen Norman Group conducted the first study to determine how users read on the web. This is where looking at the overlap between the needs of both the students and the people hiring them occur. In their words, “They don’t.” What makes Quadjobs unique is also what makes it so appealing.

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Diego Basch

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

I learned about it from a case study for my Software Project Management class in 1997, what follows is my summary ( original here , or Google it). The project was renamed to Opus, and was staffed mostly with new hires. Not many people know the story of what would become one of the most widely used software products ever.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

They also want to avoid hiring extra resources that increase the cost of the finished goods unless absolutely necessary. Do we honestly believe that the CEO of EA is happy that people are in the office 24/7 working their asses off? On the surface of it, Crunch Mode looks like the most obvious and logical way to reconcile these two desires.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2019

For example, I used to handle finances and billing the first year because I didn’t want to spend any money in hiring a financial assistant. When my motivation lags, I think about sitting across the desk from my last boss ever in 1997. For me staying motivated requires delegating the tasks that suck the life out of you.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. 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. Wireless Communications.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. Anytime you hire someone to represent you in a transaction you are subject to principle agent risk , the concern being you never know if the “agent” might be optimizing things for their own behalf, rather than simply working in the best interest of the client. Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. Although I had worked for many years before, had a degree and now a post-graduate certificate no one was hiring me.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

10 – Because No One Would Hire Me. After co-founding talent hiring platform Hireology, my business partner Michael Krasman and I recognized that when it came to relocating talent, it was a struggle for both employers and their newly hired or transferring employees. In 1997 we were IT consultants.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

With his usual awesome first principles focus, my friend Reed Hastings has articulated that the fundamental responsibility of the board is to hire, fire, and compensate the CEO. For example, I frequently tell people that hiring a CEO is an activity that usually has–at best–a.500 You rarely can find that quality in a hired gun.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2011

How involved he was in Apple's recruiting processes - personally conducting thousands of hiring interviews. And oh yes, when Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 its stock was trading at $3/share. Wasn’t everything about Steve Jobs the result of care? The way he meticulously prepared for presentations. It is a good for its own sake.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

John Meriwether from Liar’s Poker fame assembled a stellar group from Wall Street and academia including Myron Scholes (one of the creators of the Black-Scholes option pricing model) and Robert Merton who together shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997. There are other parallels-Google has an appetite for hiring PhDs.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

John Meriwether from Liar’s Poker fame assembled a stellar group from Wall Street and academia including Myron Scholes (one of the creators of the Black-Scholes option pricing model) and Robert Merton who together shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997. There are other parallels-Google has an appetite for hiring PhDs.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 13, 2015

When Christine started Balance Your Books in 1997, her vision was to create an accounting advisory firm that focused on the growth of entrepreneurs, their business, and their financial health. Jared shares with us how Fundera works! SPOILER ALERT! We talk about the Jurassic World movie. Our Guests. Christine Gray (left). SPOILER ALERT!

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Transformify

JULY 21, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. To me, diversity hiring is about acknowledging the unique strengths of candidates and the value they can add to the organization.

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