SVPG

AUGUST 21, 2013

Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. I should have written this article many years ago. While there are good choices out there today, in my experience they are still the exception rather than the rule.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One of my favorite episodes who should be your first hire, what's your funding plan, Dr. Lisa Cravin shares her top advice from building spotlight oral. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. Listen to the female startup club, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

Landon Ray: Yeah, that would have been 2004. We’ve had a lot of challenges that we’ve overcome, for example, hiring and retaining an engineering team when we were a tiny little company, it was hard to get a high quality engineer to come bet their career on you. I’ve never made software before or even a website.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Have AdWords rates increased too much for most common phrases like this to have the numbers work? May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said. The absolute essential key is to bid only on low-volume low-value keywords.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. So the natural comparison, we thought, would be to other 3D avatar based products, like The Sims and World of Warcraft. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. I am CTO of a SaaS vendor, and we use PHP.

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