Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Hire or train a specialist for each of the key elements. Great companies, like Apple or IBM, have a large customer base and quality products, so new technology along the same lines will be found. For a startup, nothing is well-known, and staffing is non-existent. If we build a great product, customers will find it and us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

With limited resources, you can sell via ecommerce, but it’s much tougher to support retail as well, or hire a direct sales team. The more precise you can be in your definition of the target demographics (location, age, income, education), the more successful you will be. Pick a business model that you can best support.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Victory usually satisfies, but it seldom educates. If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs”. New hires in a depressed economy also tend to be more willing to accept below-market salaries in exchange for equity-based compensation. Watson, IBM Founder. Christy was correct. Author unknown.

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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. I am a very big believer in education and especially higher education. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. We then spoke about startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

Their goal is to gain career-critical experience while satisfying the predisposition to “create” in a small-team environment – something they can’t obtain interning for IBM or General Motors. In return, the intern benefits immensely from the experiential education. Confidence vs. Questions.

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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. For training, consider partnering with outside organizations, such as SANS, CERT, or NICCS, or other online educational resources.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Udacity , a pioneer in the online teaching of IT skills, is celebrating a milestone today—50,000 students have now graduated from one of its revenue-generating “Nanodegree” programs.

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