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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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o Early on they hired 3 people from ACT software at once (more team hiring) on staff and supplement it with Agency (in LA worked with First Communications – good). Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”.

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

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I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. I will quote one portfolio company CEO who said about his office manager, “Mark, this is the most important hire we made last year. Hire a part-time accounting clerk to do the data entry and prepare the monthly books.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. And then was hired by Stephen Spielberg for Minority Report. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I So Oblong is here in your backyard as you know in L.A. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd.,

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Optimized Reviews May Be the Next Local SEO Edge :: Small Business.

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