TechEmpower
DECEMBER 11, 2023
While the appearance matters, remember you are hiring the development firm primarily for its development skills, not its graphic design skills. Client Retention: Do they have repeat or long-term clients? cto , product , saas Quality of Work: The end product should not only look good but function as expected.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 13, 2022
As you find your footing and begin to scale, you might feel ready to hire a formal executive team. What’s right for one company may not make sense for another, but the goal is always the same — to hire talent that will ultimately help the business thrive. When is the right time to hire an executive team?
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 31, 2011
At a board meeting yesterday, a management team was talking about their hiring needs and some of the challenges they're having hiring great people. Here's a simple tip: track hiring analytics and assign them to someone. If you're not interviewing enough people, you're not going to be able to hire someone--simple as that.
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. Imagine if the ambassadors from Seattle organized a dinner with 8 entrepreneurs, the CTO of Amazon, the head of Xbox and the head of marketing for Starbucks.
View from Seed
DECEMBER 3, 2015
Hiring and onboarding new engineers are time consuming and expensive. thredUP has been very fortunate regarding engineering retention. While luck may play a role, much of the credit for our great retention goes to the team. Even so, retention is still something I have to constantly focus on as an engineering manager.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 5, 2010
Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. 8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank. Why You Should Write.
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