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Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

On the other hand, if during the interview she asks how often you do performance reviews, that means she doesn’t understand the startup culture. stock, performance bonuses) are preferred to guaranteed earnings (e.g. You already live by this Code of Turmoil because you’re the entrepreneur; you have no choice.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

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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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). This seems to be occurring more and more.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

Mark Jeffrey - Q: “Is it more traditional to do your ESOP (employee stock option plan) before or after your angel or Series A funding?&# I talked about the need to have a restricted stock plan for your earliest employees. The downside is that people need to buy their stock. This is minutes 8-11.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

I always remind this to journalists who ask me about public stocks. So while the simplest way that people often evaluate stocks is by P/E ratios (price-to-earnings), one also needs to look at other metrics such as the PEG (price-to-earnings-growth). [of Revenue is Not Revenue is Not Revenue. For example, look at the following graph.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Most traditional, bricks-and-mortar businesses have substantial, often enormous hard assets, such as raw materials and supplies, work-in-process, inventory, manufacturing equipment, real estate and more, as well as armies of employees. One common mistake is to equate “IP” with “code” or other technical contributions.

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Are You In Control Of Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

At the same time, if you do have staff, trusting them to take over work with the same standards and expectations as you can be hard, which is another reason why straightforward streamlined systems will make it easier for you and your employees to maintain effective and efficient business operations. The demise of the spreadsheet.