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Company Newsletter. As we grew in size, it became more difficult for employees to learn about each other on a personal basis. So, we began a quarterly newsletter where we’d include everything from company highlights and event pictures to employee birthdays and milestones, as well as profiles and interviews with new employees.
Cliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
spectrum, from a guy in a garage, to a startup with five or six employees, to a twenty-five-to-three-hundred-person
Sunil Gupta • Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business
Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
youtu.beImpressive things accomplished by small teams:
- Instagram had 13 employees when they were acquired by Facebook for $1 billion. They had 30 millions users at the time.
- Mojang (the company behind Minecraft) had 37 employees when they were acquired by Microsoft for $2.5 billion. At that time, Mojang had revenue of about $290 million ann
sari azout • the power of a good prompt, small teams, extreme questions to trigger ideas, working online/living offline
Pinterest CEO: Here's How We Became The Web's Next Big Thing [DECK]
businessinsider.comJason Feifer on LinkedIn: This famous redesign led to a $600 million sale — but here’s the part… | 168 comments
linkedin.com
It is a top 100 website on the internet, and amazingly, it operates with a staff of only a few dozen people.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)
Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?
David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his t