Success brings growth for startups but sometimes stress for early-stage employees who struggle to cope with all the changes. Here’s advice on riding out the turbulence. By Mary Ann Rettig-Zucchi (Principal Consultant, Jupiter Consulting Group) & Lori Mazan (Founder & CEO, Leading From Center) Any one who has been in on the ground floor of [...]
Posts Tagged "Growth"
The Dirty Little Secret About Startup Success: It Can Be Brutal for Early Employees
April 25, 2013 – 8:00 am
How To Scale Your Company The Right Way: 6 Tips To Avoiding Growing Pains
February 18, 2013 – 6:00 am
When your company growth doubles every week, there’s plenty of room for error. Michelle Zatlyn explains how to survive it. By Francesca Fenzi (Staff Writer, Inc.) CloudFlare, a service that protects websites from security threats and speeds up online performance, has been growing at lightning-speed since its creation in 2009. The company saw more than [...]
Facebook Employees Naomi Gleit And Julie Zhuo Share Advice On Massive Growth
February 14, 2013 – 1:40 pm
Today’s Women 2.0 Conference on February 14, 2013 is being livestreamed here today and video will be available post-event. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Early Facebook employees deliver a case study on scaling from millions to billions at the Women 2.0 Conference on Valentine’s Day. The product leader responsible for Facebook’s growth, [...]
Should Your Startup Run Ads? (Pre- Or Post- Product/Market Fit)
November 29, 2012 – 9:00 am
Who does well with paid marketing? By Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder, LaunchBit) This is a continuation of a 2-part blog series on whether to run ads for your startup. Before, I talked about running ads pre- product/market fit. This week’s post assumes your startup has achieved product/market fit and is in its growth stage. Once you [...]
The Science Of Marketing
June 5, 2012 – 9:00 am
Marketing in Silicon Valley requires a scientific approach. By Julie Zhou (Growthmaster, Hipmunk) Math was my favorite subject in high school. After college, I was primed for the well-trodden path to investment banking where I could play with numbers all day. Instead, when Google came calling in search of marketers, my career took an unexpected [...]
