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Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The rest can come from early hires (with stockoptions to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.
Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The rest can come from early hires (with stockoptions to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.
o Early on they hired 3 people from ACT software at once (more team hiring) on staff and supplement it with Agency (in LA worked with First Communications – good). Mark: 10% warrant coverage is like stockoptions. o CPM model gave him control over the information in the acquisition cycle so he focused on that. -
Thus I was happy to see a new book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The rest can come from early hires (with stockoptions to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.
Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The rest can come from early hires (with stockoptions to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.
Thus I was happy to see a recent book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The rest can come from early hires (with stockoptions to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.
Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.
Our aim with this post is to share a handful of management strategies that you can lean on to not only help you through this recession but also to assist you in thriving at any time. That starts with having hiring practices that fish a diversity of talent out of pools that have a reputation of providing outstanding candidates.
Lean” doesn’t come to mind when you think of a business that needs trucks, warehouses, cross-docks, and thousands of employees to run efficiently. If the best client success person is in Oklahoma instead of LA, we’re going to hire her, (in fact, we did). Have you ever walked into a traditional freight brokerage before?
So hiring more people and being around more people and getting more things done is not actually one of the reasons. I think I might be able to speed things up, especially now that everybody always talks about the book The Lean Startup. Is there a marketing person at Remember the Milk you can hire and say look, what you did is great.
Early on it’s easy to hire, because it’s cool and fun to join a startup, and assuming you’ve hired great talent, those people never have trouble finding another job if they have to, even in a down economy. Not for the stockoptions — you won’t be doling out 1% of the company to anyone by then.
And if the reference checks come back positively, then if I believe at startup is a good opportunity, I can lean in right away. To honor the Alliance it had made with those former employees, Airbnb waived the usual vesting cliff so that they could exercise their stockoptions, and provided generous severance packages.
Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. In my neck of the woods programmers are hired guns at first year in college.
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