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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points

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Step #3 — Knowing where your target “hangs out” — having defined your target and their decision criteria, the next step aims at identifying where you are most likely to find the target talent, including what communication channels would be effective for recruitment messages. Direct contacts, competitor known.

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Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA

Steve Blank

From sources that the studios at one time claimed would put them out of business: Pay-per view TV, cable and satellite channels, video rentals, DVD sales, online subscriptions and digital downloads. The music and movie business has been consistently wrong in its claims that new platforms and channels would be the end of its businesses.