Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2010

OK, hiring is a loooong topic and I couldn’t do it justice in single post. I recommend that you design a standardized form broken down into high level criteria such as, “Intellect, Work Experience, Personality, Attributes Required for this Job, etc.&# On the basis that you’re not going to hire 99.9%

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Most leaders agree that poor customer service is a business killer today, in terms of lost customers, reduced profits, and low morale. Yet the average perception of customer experience has not improved. You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 11, 2019

At Stennis, the company has 220,000 square feet at its disposal to install second-generation printers, larger than the initial designs it has in its LA base of operations. It’s going to be a huge benefit for our customers.” “We can easily move components back and forth from production to testing. .

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

Twenty years ago, if you started a brand, your first hire, outside of a designer, would have been a salesperson,” Murthy told TechCrunch. Today, when you start a brand, your first hire is probably someone to build out your Shopify site. The equity will go toward hiring more talent to join Ghost’s 25-person team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Yet every business and every entrepreneur I know struggles with this challenge, focused on hiring the right people and implementing the right process. Start the product design process by thinking about what a historian in the future would look back on as the one big thing that changed everything. The future history assessment approach.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Historically, legal practice management software was limited to server-based solutions designed for enterprise businesses — not small law firms, Newton said. Clio has more than 150,000 customers across 100 countries. Clio also plans to, naturally, do some hiring. Clio was formed to change that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

With today’s interactive social media and the real-time Internet, both customers and employees see inside your company easily, so you can’t hide your real company culture. At the same time relationship perceptions have become the biggest drivers to customer loyalty and employee engagement. Maintain a customer-centric focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Most leaders agree that poor customer service is a business killer today, in terms of lost customers, reduced profits, and low morale. Yet the average perception of customer experience has not improved. You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. Always have a developer do a test project before hiring them to make sure they deliver quality work. This means selling at least 5-10 customers in advance, before it is even built. Ask for is code samples.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Well, here are rules to make money work for you in recruiting AND to better control its use after you’ve hired your candidate(s). But how about listing the basics for designing an excellent incentive compensation program? Next, some form of rewards should be designed to be immediate. Some obvious qualifiers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Most leaders agree that poor customer service is a business killer today, in terms of lost customers, reduced profits, and low morale. Yet the average perception of customer experience continues to decline. You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 26, 2020

If people are waiting for you to respond to a question or make a decision about design, process, spending for a core need, or any of tens of critical decisions, you are creating a slowing or stoppage of work before you and idle resources behind you. Of course, you could fit that definition. You can be the bottleneck. Remove that impediment!

Organization 156

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In fact, I believe the majority of true entrepreneurs are not interested in this new role, and jump ship quickly by hiring an experienced CEO or merging with another company, to start their next entrepreneurial effort. That means making sure the right people are hired, trained, and in the right place at the right time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists. No product, even with a large opportunity, is ready to scale until you can show it working, with multiple customers paying the full price, to validate the business model. Word-of-mouth does not scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Personnel Manager.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Today the synthetic biology company announced an expansion of its headquarters in Boston’s Seaport neighborhood, including a second, larger lab space for designing and making custom yeast and other microbes. We can iterate through designs a lot faster than a traditional life sciences company,” Kelly says.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

With today’s interactive social media and the real-time Internet, both customers and employees see inside your company easily, so you can’t hide your real company culture. At the same time relationship perceptions have become the biggest drivers to customer loyalty and employee engagement. Maintain a customer-centric focus.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2016

co), to learn District2 is looking to both create a marketplace, and a community, around independent fashion designers, helping them to find resources, vendors, factories, and contractors help them bring their designs to life, and help the whole industry move into the modern age. We help apparel designers connect with factories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2022

By default, innovation in every business decreases over time, and continuous innovation requires ongoing initiatives and measures of customer perceived value. Hire slowly and fire fast. Recognize that customers care about the whole experience. Give customers what they want, even if they don’t know they want it.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

On the flip side, we attract those candidates, based on their affinity group, such as Blacks in Tech, Latinos In UI and UX design, women enggineers, and other affinity groups that attract talent, making them accesible to companies that are looking to hire for diversity. It's a community of underrepresented professionals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. Jeff Bezos has kept his focus on customers. In my view, every startup in today’s world would do well to adopt a management system with the same key objectives: Start with a customer-obsessed business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions. Conflicting visions won’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Yet, in the interest of full disclosure, and an honest intent to save future entrepreneurs some grief and money, I would remind you that starting any business has key dependencies on at least five major elements, including product design and delivery, the right people on the team, adequate funding, a sizable market opportunity, and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2020

By default, innovation in every business decreases over time, and continuous innovation requires ongoing initiatives and measures of customer perceived value. Hire slowly and fire fast. Recognize that customers care about the whole experience. Give customers what they want, even if they don’t know they want it.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Monrovia-based Tanner EDA , a supplier of analog and mixed-signal electronic design automation software, reported Monday evening that it has appointed a new Sales VP, and separately, that it is in a strategic alliance with a MEMS supplier. In the executive move, Tanner EDA said it has hired Hamed Emami as Vice President of Sales at the firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2020

I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists. No product, even with a large opportunity, is ready to scale until you can show it working, with multiple customers paying the full price, to validate the business model. Word-of-mouth does not scale.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 14, 2013

To start your own marketplace site to sell your fashion brand, you would need to design a website, set up an e-commerce system and market, market and market some more to draw people to your new site. You don’t have to worry about hiring web designers and marketing specialists to draw traffic to the site.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

The company, which will make its vehicles available through a subscription-based model, already has 400 employees and just announced new key hires along with its rebranding. Canoo said that it intends to use a modular “skateboard” approach to its vehicle design where different form factors can rest atop its chassis.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Designed to put automation in the hands of all data workers-from line-of-business users to skilled analysts and data scientists-the human-centered platform transforms how businesses leverage their data assets, optimize their processes and upskill human talent to generate workforce efficiencies, top-line growth and optimize costs.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

If you are a millenial entering the workforce, what would you be most comfortable with -- a tool designed to work and look like a social network, or a tool built around an old fashioned corporate enterprise software UI? She said that PromoJam is looking to "democratize enterprise social marketing" with the new turnkey system.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US. 10x the experience.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. Not only does it boast a sleek ergonomic design, but it also X every single feature you'd expect from a top-tier internet phone system. From its 4.3-inch

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

A recent high-profile one, Theranos , the blood-testing company, had no trouble getting customers, but promised more than their technology could deliver, Another, Shyp , an early on-demand delivery platform, blamed their demise on premature scaling. Make sustainability a key design objective for every step.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2019

The company recently hired powerhouse executive Abby Coleman, the former vice president of marketing and strategy at Quidsi and head of e-commerce at Diapers.com as its new chief executive and is now looking to expand its footprint and unique approach to meal delivery beyond its current geographies. Meals are $10.95

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2020

In fact, I believe the majority of true entrepreneurs are not interested in this new role, and jump ship quickly by hiring an experienced CEO or merging with another company, to start their next entrepreneurial effort. That means making sure the right people are hired, trained, and in the right place at the right time.

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