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The one HR benefit every startup should add 27 Aug 2013 | 02:49 am
I just did a review of all of our benefits programs. Like other startups, 42Floors offers a great health, vision and dental package and life insurance coverage. We pay 100% for both employees and de...
3rd Annual NFTE Launch: Mentor Aspiring Teen Entrepreneurs in SF 14 Jun 2013 | 08:05 am
Download 465828-NFTE_launchweek2011_1080p.mov For the 3rd year in a row, I'm running NFTE Launch later this month. NFTE is the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. It connects mentors with aspiri...
YC without being in YC 6 May 2013 | 08:28 am
Back in 2010, my startup FlightCaster had hit some serious obstacles and we needed to pivot. We had set a deadline for ourselves for some metrics and we failed to meet them. It was a bruising time. ...
Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? 26 Apr 2013 | 09:39 pm
I couldn’t sleep last night because I’m concerned about how we’re going to get more high quality photos up onto 42Floors. We’re a site that makes it easy to search for commercial real estate. But it...
My strange aversion to vacations 24 Apr 2013 | 08:24 pm
Vacations have always been hard for me. It’s a weird thing to say, but it’s true. They just don’t come naturally to me. I remember when I was in business school, all of my classmates were taking th...
Hire Athletes 24 Apr 2013 | 04:10 am
After we closed our Series A for 42Floors, we began working on hiring the right people. And while we like to say things like we want everyone to be world class at what they do, the reality is that as...
Metrics for Suck 24 Apr 2013 | 01:59 am
So there have been times that I’ve been a really sucky entrepreneur. Our first company, OpenVote, was a web 2.0 company that built Facebook apps. For years, I’ve said that it failed with all the oth...
How to get your startup acquihired 24 Apr 2013 | 01:57 am
We’re starting to hit that time of the startup cycle where we’ve had lots of companies receive seed finding, but fewer than that reach their Series A or profitability. For those of you that are absol...
Manual Scaling 24 Apr 2013 | 12:02 am
At 42Floors, we’re trying to change the way people search for commercial real estate. It’s an enormous undertaking. Gathering commercial real estate listings data is not trivial. The data comes fro...
Join us next week for NFTE Launch: help mentor aspiring entrepreneurs 6 Jul 2012 | 01:53 am
Come spend 3 hours next week mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs. You won't regret it. NFTE Launch is a program I started last year for the startup community to provide aspiring teen entrepreneurs wi.....
