A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

And now, with Silver Lake’s investment and support, we can accelerate our growth investing even more into our strategic roadmap, and placing some new bets on ideas we’ve had but haven’t been able to find the space to explore. We just announced a few more things. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Brand voice and business culture when it comes to recruitment and retaining people matter much more now than most businesses realize. The report also highlights a popular post-2010 trend: Candidates now look for incentives such as paid secondments to work for social projects and needy causes. CSR Surging in Popularity.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

At the start of 2010, there was some unwritten VC industry conventions that have been tested, challenged, and upended in the last decade. I don’t have the data, but I’d bet the “minimum ownership” requirements VC funds started 2010 with have gone down dramatically. No doubt, a16z changed the game here.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I have neither worked at Netflix, nor written for the blog myself. That is, in no small part, due to its salaries, its culture, and its brand. But of course, Netflix also has a not-so-secret asset where it shows its culture to the world: the Netflix TechBlog. 4.62% of those people end up going to the Jobs page?—?11,550

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. There, I discovered we had grown our customer count far faster than our employees to support it, and customer service and employee happiness were suffering. 2010: Every touchpoint matters. What would our culture look like? Our offering?

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2020

Since its creation, CEMEX and Impact Hub Monterrey have received 3,765 applications from more than 74 countries, and supported 128 projects from 23 countries, as well as collaborated in the improvement of 73 communities. When it started in 2010, the CEMEX-TEC Award was a local award, but with the years it grew and developed very quickly.

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Founders Coop

MAY 18, 2020

Since most founders are too busy to read long blog posts, here’s the tl;dr: – Tell the Truth – Be Fast – Give First – It’s Your Company – Be Human. In the process of writing this post we realized we had a lot to say on the topic. Which brings us to: Be Fast.

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