InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!].

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. Even IBM, with their personal computer, had trouble making their elephant dance. In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. They are the lifeblood of many companies yet they are different than the traditional technology startup DNA so the ways that you hire, motivate, compensate and assess performance of these individuals will be different. Of course that’s not true.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. Even IBM, with their personal computer, had trouble making their elephant dance. In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

IBM has shared ideas with us, EMC, Microsoft, and a whole raft of other major companies are working closely with us now. We have our own small seed fund, which we trigger to fund that company and hire a team, a CEO and a CTO. We are the founders of these companies, and the ideas come from our own team.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. My family had the very first edition of the IBM XT computer with a 10 MB hard drive. Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. We're also growing and hiring. So far so good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Now, of course, they all do much more, but those things came later. With limited resources, you can sell via ecommerce, but it’s much tougher to support retail as well, or hire a direct sales team. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you have a big challenge that you can’t afford to meet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. It was an IBM XT. It was the first ever IBM to ship with a hard drive. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. Which of course it won’t, right? Should I hire or not hire this person?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It may sound counterintuitive, but the greater constraint investors place on their financial resources during a downturn, the better your chances of success, given (of course) that your adVenture is able to either secure funding or generate adequate revenue from customers, as described below in reason #7 – Customer Dollars Taste Great.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

And today, more than 2,000 colleges and universities offer entrepreneurship courses – up from the just 70 schools that Boomers and Gen-X had to choose from in 1970. You’ll find that your company – no matter how small or early stage you may be – can benefit greatly from hiring an intern – and has plenty to offer the intern in return.

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Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

Sebastian Thrun first made his mark on autonomous vehicle development at the dawn of that industry, when he led a Stanford team whose robot car Stanley won the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 by racing driverless through the Mojave Desert for 132 miles.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

— The hiring problem is getting harder to figure out: Ninety-two percent of businesses say it’s increasingly difficult to find skilled security candidates. Of course, any approach for solving the skills gap will evolve over time. million unfilled IT security jobs globally by 2020. Have a plan that expects to change.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. And of course you need a mature venture capital industry. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. I’m in Seattle this week. Can’t list them all. That’s one model.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Timing your startup - Chris Dixon , November 7, 2010 I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have been a huge mistake). Has nothing changed since the early days of IBM? Call it facts for hire. Hiring The Right Candidate.

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Frank Addante

JULY 10, 2006

The ability to execute at faster speeds and to rapidly adapt their course is what enables them to compete and to protect themselves from the big companies. It can quickly move you off course. There wasnt a new-hire orientation or weekly staff meetings that said L90s focus was X. This can be both a strength and a weakness.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

One guy was the creator of Microsoft Excel and the other created the first network for IBM. (No, We didn’t hire resumes and experience, we hired smart, good people who wanted to be entrepreneurs. In fact, many people had no prior experience at all in the jobs that they were hired to do. New Yorkers (i.e.

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