Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Here’s why.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. I do something I now call community hours. Brad on blogging.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Technology disruption is happening at a rapid pace all around us. We asked our entrepreneurs what changes do they expect due to technology shortly, and this is what they have to say. #1- I also expect to see more technology to assist with personalized experiences at trade shows, both in person and virtually, shortly.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Only those that adapt and embrace technology will have a chance at continuing to “be” at all. If someone refers an acquaintance to your company’s services, what’s the next thing that referral will do — dial you up and hire you? Not likely. But, don’t forget to look around the corner because your new competition has arrived.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

source ] Hiring a professional fire protection service holds the key to not only enhancing property value but also ensuring the safety and security of your investment. Compliance demonstrates due diligence and adherence to safety standards, mitigating risks and liabilities associated with potential fire hazards.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. So rather than hiring a VP Marketing [to establish a strategic marketing plan, build and manage the marketing team, manage outside vendors, etc.] I recommend hiring or appointing a growth hacker.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

GRP Partners is looking to hire two analysts (maybe even three) to join our practice in Los Angeles. If this isn’t you, we’d probably still have a look if you did something truly exception – probably at startup or tech firm. We want somebody who is ready, willing and able to debate tech with us.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Growth will slow, partly due to internal limits and partly because the company is starting to bump up against the limits of the markets it serves.” It might be for technical reasons or it might be for customer adoption reasons. That leverage technology or drive change. But my definition of the word is much broader.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Editor’s Note: NextView recently kicked off a Boston-based workshop series on technical interviewing with Google. For the company, he’s led multiple tech teams focused on products like voice and image search, Google Search for iOS, Google Glass, and Android Wear. Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.)

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

Would you like to learn how pipes fit in a house like a beautiful, technical maze? If you are interested in learning how factories run and assisting in smooth and efficient machine operation, consider becoming an industrial engineering tech. You may be interested in becoming a plumber or pipefitter. HVAC Technician.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio community building. Industry reviews. Most firms hire associates straight out of MBA programs and usually it is a “2-3 years and out” type of job. So the “VC associate” is largely a launching pad job for exceedingly bright and hard-working young tech professionals. Deal screening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Technology is great, but high-tech major-step-forward solutions are not the answer to all our change challenges.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. ” We had inbound M&A requests from some of the biggest names in tech. You can watch it here. I first met Jonathan nearly 4 years ago.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Instead, buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way, often through the Internet, their social network, or just plain word-of-mouth or customer reviews. It’s a myth that social networks and their technologies are creating new approaches to marketing. Build strong customer communities.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. Large tech companies like Google, Amazon, Apple recognize that the multi- trillion dollar health care market is ripe for disruption and have poured billions of dollars into the space. Healthcare on Your Wrist.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 4, 2023

When employees leave (due to any reason), companies spend time and resources recruiting and training new candidates. Hire the Right People One of the most effective ways to reduce employee turnover is to ensure that you are hiring the right people for the right job. Well, there are multiple techniques that you can try.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

If I’m interested I get to spend more time with them, if I’m not I don’t have to – A few companies per month come in that have fascinating business ideas that warrant my spending more time trying to understand their people, company, technology and market. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As the rate of change continues to increase in business and technology, the more I’m convinced that marketing is the primary key to success for a new venture. Yet I find that many technical founders don’t feel they need it at all, or at best point to one person on the team who is marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Robust startup economies are popping up in communities all over the country, proving that entrepreneurs can succeed outside of Silicon Valley. At Rev1, we’re knee deep in helping startups build and scale in the Midwest, including direct support for attracting executive and tech talent. Look to organizations like i.c.

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Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2021

Strap Technologies, the groundbreaking company headquartered in Austin, Texas with a mission to become the world’s first substitute for the white cane, has announced that Natalia Ferriz will join the rapidly expanding team as Marketing Director. With a $50 USD deposit now, the remainder is due prior to shipping later this year.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2020

She also speaks on motivational topics related to entrepreneurship, overcoming diversity, and advancing young women in the field of information technology. is a boutique information technology project management firm. Are the efforts for more diversity in the tech ecosystem working and what do you suggest for further improvement?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I spent an hour on the phone working with Sam Rosen, the CEO of MakeSpace on a senior exec he is considering hiring. I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Known for sticking to long-term rather than short-term investments, Buffett prefers to address the fundamentals rather than adopt technical analyses of businesses (he poo poos much of the investment banking community). In the management of our businesses, the rule is: Hire people who love what they do.”. Motivate Your Workforce.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%). They are professionals with full-time jobs, who often don’t have time for due diligence (and may not even know how to do it) and often make decisions through trusted referrals or based on gut feelings (more on gut feelings later).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

Whether you’re considering hiring a new employee or as an investor whether you’re looking to do a background check on the founders of a company. I would start by asking the candidate, “How did you decide on these five people” as part of your review process. Reference calls. We all have to make them.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

A virtual assistant (VA) is a remote worker hired to complete tasks you should not be doing as the founder of a startup. In 2009, I launched the Micropreneur Academy , a private membership community for startup founders. This is most often due to the fact that you don't yet know how to work with a VA. Easing Into a VA.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2015

Use social networks to engage with community. FAQs, technical support forums, and other platforms assist customers with product issues. Beyond optimizing one’s content for search purposes, we need to also build engaged communities on social networks and “electrify” them through promotion and link building. Consideration?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Insurance is the next big industry due for a disruption. But wait, before letting your eyes glaze over or clicking out of here entirely, give me just two minutes of your time to explain – because the opportunity is big and the technology is really cool. The technology existed; it just needed to be deployed for an insurance purpose.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. TSM: With a bit more detail, what does your company do? Share with us what problem you’re solving).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

This allows them to attract talented students that might have otherwise not been able to go through the application process due to geographical restrictions. One university that has championed this approach is Ivy Tech Community College. AI-powered exam proctoring allows for remote programs.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

And, if I told you that by the beginning of May, you’d make every hire remotely, you might have laughed in my face. …suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. With this rigid mindset, they fail to take advantage of the technological developments that have become an integral part of business processes. Consequently, the startups suffer due to this stern and never changing thought process. Summing Up.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2020

Hiring too much or not enough. Hiring is one of the most challenging parts of running a business, no matter how large or small your operation is. From finding a qualified pool of applicants to interviewing, verifying references, and filing the hiring paperwork, just managing and recruiting employees is a full time job.

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Rembrandt Communications

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Everyone is hiring, and the competition for top talent is fierce. PR is your hiring secret! What would happen if your dream hire read about you online, saw you on a television program or heard your interview on the radio or a podcast? Know that you are hiring the best candidates possible right now.

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