A fantastic post by my friend Avand Amiri from Sqoot, an API for daily deals
“How to Measure the Metrics that Determine Real Progress” By Trevor Owens on Oct 3, 2011
The best list I’ve seen of prepackaged company names with the domain. At $250 the price is also great too.
Hiring and Firing for Entrepreneurs by David Teten
Lots of very good relevant advice and lists other resources for how to hire at a startup.
Even if you don’t have a single “ask” I recommend saying something like, “listen, I’m going to make this call short. I don’t have anything I’m asking for, I was just hoping to get 10 minutes of your time to tell you what we’re up to so that the next chance we get to meet down the line you’ve got more of an understanding.” -Mark Suster
There are two theories in hiring people:
• Find the candidate who lacks major weaknesses (but doesn’t have major strengths).
• Find the candidate who has major strengths (even though he has major weaknesses).
The first line of reasoning is flawed because everyone has major weaknesses…the second line of reasoning is the way to go.
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| — | Guy Kawasaki in “Art of the Start” |
Can’t Miss Indiana Startup Event: The Combine
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When: September 9th - 12th, 2010
Where: Bloomington, Indiana
What: “The Combine is a display of talent, entrepreneurship and innovation. It’s an event about tech, specifically the people, ideas and environments that drive technology.”
Featured Speakers: See below
Ticket price as of writing: $199 (buy yours)
Lucky for you, the guys at SproutBox love the town of Bloomington, Indiana, and work hard and pull their connections to draw some of the internet’s top innovators closer to home.
For the first time, they’ve put together a technology conference in Indiana that startup founders are excited to go to. It’s called the Combine and is designed in the spirit of another “midwest” conference called Big Omaha. Since you’ve probably never heard of that either, just picture all the talent, creativity, and innovation of SXSW, but in a setting where you can spend some time getting to know interesting people, instead of spending all your time fighting the throngs of people.
Just check out the lineup of this year’s speakers. Did you ever think you’d find a group of people like this just an hour south of downtown Indianapolis? And I wouldn’t be surprised if they added more before the event.
The price might seem steep to all of you starving founders trying to make something happen, but I promise you there isn’t a better value this close to home.
