Armen Berjikly, Founder and CEO of Experience Project, discusses how to build a start-up team, a task that he argues is critical for success. Berjikly suggests building a team of people with complementary skills by reaching out through personal networks and in some cases recruiters. On the other...
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Armen Berjikly, Founder and CEO of Experience Project, discusses his transition from corporate life to founding his own company. Berjikly talks about the challenges of bootstrapping his company: dealing with the loss of stable income, juggling jobs to make ends meet, and developing the alpha pro...
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Armen Berjikly, Founder and CEO of Experience Project, talks about different strategies to market a startup, particularly an Internet startup. Berjikly suggests linking to larger sites by building on open platforms such as Myspace and Facebook as well as finding your way into social identificati...
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It’s sort of an eternal question. We used, the fact is a lot of other large sites that you can parasite off of, right? So before the Facebook platform, Myspace was very, very open, all right. You could just write anything you want and it would run on Myspace. And so we did build widg...
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So, just in the last two weeks a great woman joined this site. She was a young mother. Her husband is in the military, in Iraq. So he’s deployed and she was diagnosed with breast cancer and she was undergoing chemotherapy. So this is a woman who felt very isolated. She has series of...
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I think the first thing you face when you leave your job and your paycheck and your health insurance is how are you going to fill in that gap, all right? Because some people will take the stance at running out of money and depleting your bank account will spur you to work even faster and harder...
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Yeah. So hiring obviously is a huge and important thing for a start up. You’re really marrying the people that you hire. And it's really the way it looks like. You spend way more time with them than anyone else. You stare at their face for 20 hours a day. And you expect them to be a...
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Armen Berjikly, Founder and CEO of Experience Project, shares the basic concept behind the company: a portal for people to share experiences with others in a similar situation. He illustrates by giving an example of a young mother diagnosed with breast cancer. He notes that his portal offered he...
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Transitioning from Corporate to Startup
