blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Aline Lerner's Blog. Jun 21, 2013.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I credit my co-founder Eric Frothingham with coming up with our name. 2- Combination of two names. 6- Name describing our story.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

I told them that True Ventures had stuck to their brand name and submitted a totally clean term sheet. You’ll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company. The more senior members you have (say you already have a CEO, CTO, VP marketing, VP Biz Dev, VP Products) then the less options you’ll need and vice versa.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

I want the names of the key buyers, the last time you met them, who the competition is and what are the criteria for a decision. When the CEO of an early-stage startup tells me that they plan to hire a COO I’m usually not interested in the next meeting. You think we’re just going to talk about your largest lead?

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 18, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO Before Founding Konamoxt, my last gig was the Chief Technology Officer for a local Seattle Startup. Mr. Startup CEO, I’m here to tell you, you can’t afford to hire a CTO. Can you help us make sure this candidate would make a good CTO?&#

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. David Cohen deserves much credit for building TechStars into an internationally recognized brand name for innovation.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 21, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO As I mentioned in my last post, one of the many things I do as an entrepreneur is to advise other start up companies. One of the common requests I get as an adviser is the help interview and vet potential CTO candidates. This is critical! this story.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

To support the three Cs, ING has also developed their own iterative practice named PACE. LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. When it comes time to grow your team, Jeff Jordan and Eric pointed out three hiring mistakes to avoid. First, do not hire someone just because they have the domain expertise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

When you look through the list , you’ll see big names that we’re very pleased we landed, epic companies we really want to hear from, and people we’re particularly excited to present because they have incredible stories to share--and you won’t hear them anyplace else.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. break the silos!

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. You have to ensure that the right people come in at the right time, and you have the right decor, ambiance and music.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

Don''t be swayed by big name firms or other kinds of name dropping. You are looking for someone who cares about the look, but you are hiring the development firm for it''s development skills not its graphic design skills. Have they worked on projects that are similar to your project? And make sure you see those projects.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2015

by Tal Segalov, CTO & co-founder of Mintigo. So how do you become a leader in social commerce without household name attached to your brand? Hire the right marketing team. This is crucial for businesses to succeed in finding the right customers are the right time.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Every time a startup raises capital, all common shareholders are diluted. In cases where a startup is sold within a few years time, there is often acceleration agreements for unvested shares.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

Dharmesh Shah , Founder and CTO at HubSpot and Blogger at OnStartups.com wrote in a recent post on this topic: Never automatically discount a message simply because you discount the messenger. How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer Without Losing Your Shirt. Why is the person offering you advice?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. This subtle difference has been key to the success of companies like Groupon, Dropbox and Intuit to name a few. Many argue that since their goal is to become a large company, they might as well hire the team early – because they will be needed down the road.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

These sets of fields will stem from your Active Directory infrastructure (some providers will only request first name, last name, email, and samaccountname.). Onboarding goes beyond hiring new employees. Passing the employee’s details to the IT department to notify them of the new hire is half the battle.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. Eventually I had a head of Product Management – the best I ever worked with named Tim Barker – politely say to me that this wouldn’t fly any more. Tim had a great solution.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The tagging widget uses faces.detect to automatically place tags on people's faces, and allows users to add names. Face.com was founded in 2007 by Gil Hirsch (CEO), Yaniv Taigman (CTO), Moti Sneiberg and Eden Shochat (Eden is also one of Face.com’s investors and today serves as a partner in Gensis). The total amount is $4.3M

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Think about your playbook from the perspective of a new hire. Your primary audience is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) who has the spending power to buy your product. Though your marketing is aimed at the CTO, an accountant who shares the same interests might see your ad. Lay out the key challenges and expected results.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Would love to get in touch.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. For example: Dropbox, Reddit, and Birch Box, to name a few. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. The Grand-daddy. Worked with.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

You have a new hire (if they’re not the CEO or CTO, reporters probably won’t care). You have a new, big name advisor (unless it’s a big , big name this rarely works). You are presenting at a conference or trade show and/or you have a booth at a conference or trade show (still boring).

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Check if the currently logged-in user is part of this experiment already. If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before. If the user is not part of this experiment yet, pick a hypothesis using the weightings passed in as parameters. Return the name of the hypothesis chosen or assigned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. Another question that always comes up when talking about customer development, is whether VCs and other financial backers are embracing this way of building companies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Supercomputers get Personal Back in Sunnyvale my friend had not only been hired but had convinced the team that we should be building hardware – making a new class of computers not a software application. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He I worked at Multiflow, a name you’d recognize, ending up running the OS group.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

We will be hiring people with mental and physical disabilities in the near future. I was surprised that there wasn’t a name brand company that had people available anywhere and at any time, along with transparent booking, payment, and really great staff that you could choose from. Helping others is what makes my heart full.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. We tried obvious competitors as well as long-shots. Since we were only paying per click, it didnt cost us anything to cast a wide net.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Earlier this week, I was discussing company naming with a new entrepreneur, one that I used to work with at Edgecase (when I served as their Chairman of the Board). A company name should have longevity and it shouldn’t be limiting (as you eventually?—?and I think really hard when I’m naming a new startup. and hopefully?—?grow

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Based on past experience, the penalty will carry a sweet name (I vote for “One-Eyed Weasel”) and affect any website that has its entire link profile based on guest posts – most of them in medium to low quality websites. Are you finding hundreds and even thousands of search results for guest articles that carry your name?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. It strokes your ego. You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I immediately registered a few obvious domain names. I did the earliest bplans.com sites myself, in my spare time, while running a company growing about 50% per year. In 1997 we hired an NYU undergrad to create a better bplans.com site, focusing on business planning and especially publishing sample plans. I was hooked.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

You need to build a relationship with someone over time before they’re convinced to go join your startup. I think most new entrepreneurs severely underestimate the time it takes to recruit talent. How in the world do all my actor friends live here if you’re saying you can’t hire a developer because you have to pay them too much? >

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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