Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2020

Sheltering in place during the Covid-19 pandemic, my coffees with current and ex-students (entrepreneurs, as well as employees early in their careers) have gone virtual. News sources for Digital Health and Life Sciences are different from software/hardware blogs such as Hacker News, TechCrunch, etc. Fast Company and Forbes.

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Software Review Technical Review eCommerce Salary 335

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

No salaries followed by low salaries. Although of course the business is physically separate from you, and its success is undeniably due to your faithful employees even more than it’s due to you, emotionally the business is not a separate entity. The care and feeding of becoming an expert in something.

Software Review 295

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The very last email I got from him told me the following: Thank you for your time Tony, I understand everyone wants a huge salary, no risk and a cut of the profits. And let’s be honest, most employees, advisors, etc. Otherwise, you’ll end up spending time with people who are not going to be interested.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2018

A business runs on diligence, passion, and creativity — but it also needs a whole lot of legal help. Thus, as with many other expensive aspects of starting a business, many entrepreneurs like you are turning to software. More realistically, artificial intelligence and computer software will assist lawyers, not replace them entirely.

Software Review 89

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. Rigid union contracts constrain salaries, work schedules and promotions.

Technical Review 170

Technical Review United States Software Review China 170

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. Our software wasn’t fully baked. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us. And I made a version of this company-wide speech to our employees: “Look.

PR 331

PR Software Review Ireland Germany 331

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. Not necessarily.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. It’s a subjective topic.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My goal is to climb the ranks and increase my salary." The prospect of collecting self reviews and getting 360 degree feedback and writing a performance review for each of your employee each quarter does not make you want to jump off the building. I am getting to how you can increase your salary part.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. I listened in on a board call with an enterprise software company this week, and when the CEO said, “Our VP of sales assured me our pipeline won’t be affected.” Nothing is more important than assuring the company can continue to pay its employees.

South Korea 334

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 14, 2012

Most businesses stay that way - there are many more solo entrepreneurs than business owners with employees. Rachel Blankstein has launched two tech startups, including her current business Comparz , a website where independent users review web-based software. Rachel Blankstein. I asked someone who knows.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2021

But one of the secrets to effective scaling is an efficient team; if your employees are working productively and consistently, they’ll be capable of making your vision a reality. What Makes Employees Productive in a New Startup? So what is it that makes employees productive in a new startup? Uncertainty. Experimental workflows.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2018

Do you pay attention to your employee retention rate and whether your top employees are happy? If your employees are unhappy and continue to hand in their resignation, it makes it challenging to keep the business moving forward. Continuously hiring new employees is a huge expense for a company.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2020

In addition, not everyone has the privilege of having a real personal assistant due to high costs. Due to advancements in technology, assistants are now becoming a common good — even for businesses — and are no longer limited to the high-earners. This is something that we will probably not see within the next 15 years.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2020

According to the US job report from the labor department, US employers have given off nearly 30 million positions from payrolls due to the coronavirus pandemic and related lockdown. So even if we see the whole pandemic from the economic lens, it would not be wise for the businesses to lay off employees on such a large scale.

Leadership 189

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Whereas New York City has very high real estate costs and very high salaries, launching in Chicago and D.C. were more distributed.

Operations 286

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Any operation that involves an employee, like recruitment, payroll management, or even offboarding, can be included in these HR functions or duties. . Most HR functions are outsourced to an HR consulting agency by SMBs (10–500 employees). We are introducing new employees to the organization. What Is Human Resources Outsourcing?

United States 158

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

We’re tired of hearing how small software companies usually fail. But what about the companies that die even though they did sell some copies of software, and where the early team isn’t dysfunctional? The initial marketing channel was sustainable for a while , but got wiped away due to external forces.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

For those hundreds of people who downloaded your software and never bought — is the reason "not enough features?". If you honestly can't imagine that there's anything a full-time person could do that would generate enough revenue to cover their salary, that's not a bad thing. It could be a part-time consultant. Or switch off.

Startup 315

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Startups die due to a variety of causes. I have witnessed startup failures that were due to predictable co-founder conflicts. I have heard many founders — even in the first few months of product development — expect to raise seed rounds, pay themselves salaries, etc. You can follow him @amontalenti on Twitter.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

Liabilities are anything that the company owes, often coming with the word “payable,” and may include items such debt owed to creditors and salaries due to employees. Once you have tallied all existing assets, subtract liabilities to come to a determination of the company’s net assets. If your company is worth only $2.5

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Many companies are beginning to allow the flexibility to help cut costs while boosting employee productivity. Technology companies sometimes surprise me: we pride ourselves on using the latest gadgets, the latest software, the latest coding practices, and the latest development methodologies. We live in the future. What gives?

Software Review 165

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2016

Dissatisfied employees are a problem. Try these methods for improving employee satisfaction: Give pay rises where you can. It’s unlikely that you can afford to give everyone a pay rise, but it’s worth investigating whether you have money to increase the salary of some of your employees. Want to avoid both these outcomes?

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Generally, the size is based on the number of employees and annual receipts for a given period. Small Business Administration , an organization is considered to be a small business if their: Firm revenue ranges from $1 million to $40 million Number of employees is between 100 and 1,500. According to the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware and software, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months. It’s hard to think of a hardware/software or life science technology that dominates its space for years.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2020

When is the next payroll due? Purchase of fixed assets like machines, vehicles, real estate, or capitalized software. Startups have unique cash challenges due to their raise-burn-raise-burn cycle. Stop founder salaries. Furlough non-essential employees. Startups burn through cash due to their rapid growth cycles.

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Recapitalization Forecast Software Review Finance 200

YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2020

In simple terms, the payroll is the list of your employees and the corresponding amount of money that you pay them. Hence, a payroll system is the collective steps that involve the preparation, computation, and transmission of the payments to the employees. Also, you need to secure the tax and financial information of your employees.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But in this customer-focused model, some businesses make the mistake of neglecting to focus on their employees. Harvard Business Review states that “becoming more customer-oriented while allowing workplace morale to suffer is a poor and short-sighted strategy.” Happier employees = greater customer loyalty.

Employee 113

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. Organizational debt was coming due.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Employees want a paycheck on time. Not counting the salary and any other amounts you pay an employee, these are the different outgoings to factor in when you start hiring: Federal taxes (withholding tax: pay-as-you-go, paid directly to the IRS). By Shrad Rao, CEO of Wagepoint. The government wants its money.

Small Business 165

Small Business Software Review Salary Government 165

Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2021

On average, employees change jobs every four years. Employee retention is one of the biggest and potentially expensive issues for companies. Employee retention is one of the biggest and potentially expensive issues for companies. There are many ways to help your employees and make them thrive in the workplace.

Employee 83

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 8, 2021

68% of for-profit and governmental organizations instituted a review of internal controls by management as compared with 44% of nonprofits. losses due to corporate abuse and accounting fraud. million over five years in a scheme by a low-level accounts receivable employee. An employee embezzled $1.4 An arts center lost $1.48

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

For a small business with constantly-strained capacity it can be incredibly difficult to post a job, sort through the resumes, vet the candidates, check those references, negotiate salary and benefits packages, execute the employment agreement, and complete the HR paperwork for payroll, insurance, pension plan, etc. It’s a ton of work.

Hiring 99

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Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

And Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo, discussed code quality. Planned 2020 future salaries projections. Reviewed performance of BDRs and Sales. Reviewed data on bot conversion, had a discussion about % of future that’s managed services vs product. Did a 45 minute review of our IT infrastructure.

Part-Time VPE 135

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

How Employee Experience Shapes Brand Perception written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Tiffani Bova In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Tiffani Bova. Key Takeaway: Prioritizing the employee experience alongside customer experience drives business success.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Every startup will use some kind of software: book keeping, word processing, presentation. “You do not need to buy that expensive office software and servers when you can switch to a cloud vendor-Google is an example-at a fraction of the cost,” says Ali Asadi of aprofitmaker.com. Allow employees fewer hours.

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