For fast-growing technology start-ups, there are many approaches to employee hiring and retention.
Two of the more successful ones, Facebook and Zappos, have very different methods, each with different goals: Facebook wants to hire entrepreneurs even if that means they will eventually leave, while Zappos wants to hire the best people to fit its culture and figure out how to keep them.
It all started with a “stupid” idea and a message about pinot noir.
Two of the founders of Twitter Inc., Evan Williams and Biz Stone, talked about how the micro-blogging service began, the challenges it faced and an eventual potential IPO, at Startup School, an event organized by Y Combinator held at the University of California-Berkeley on Saturday.
When I first I attended the Webby Awards in 2001, I noticed an anthropological paradox: The line to the ladies’ room was nonexistent, the men’s, long.
One of the differences between big companies and start-ups is that big companies tend to have developed procedures to protect themselves against mistakes. A start-up walks like a toddler, bashing into things and falling over all the time. A big company is more deliberate.
Umair Haque wrote recently that the reason there aren’t more Googles is that most start-ups get bought before they can change the world. “Google, despite serious interest from Microsoft and Yahoo–what must have seemed like lucrative interest at the time–didn’t sell out,” Haque said. “Google might simply have been nothing but Yahoo’s or MSN’s search box. Why isn’t it? Because Google had a deeply felt sense of purpose: a conviction to change the world for the better.” This has a nice sound to it, but it isn’t true …
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