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Don’t hire people you know!

David Teten

We are thus more likely to befriend those people, we are more likely to develop strong ties to them, and even eventually to marry one of those people. [1] Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them.

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Don’t hire people you know!

David Teten

We are thus more likely to befriend those people, we are more likely to develop strong ties to them, and even eventually to marry one of those people. [1] Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them.

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Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

Both Sides of the Table

You develop a cynicism that the future will be better. Ryan was the most talented technologist we had hired at BuildOnline. We hired Ryan at a really young age and without a tremendous amount of prior experience. We had a strategy of hiring people really young because we couldn’t afford to hire too many senior people.

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6 Time-Saving Social Media Tools For Startups

YoungUpstarts

As you’re developing images and content and schedules for your social media marketing initiatives, you’ll need a place to store them. Canva offers a way to crank out solid images without the time and budget costs of scheduling lengthy training sessions or hiring designers. Here are six awesome tools you can use to reach this goal.

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6 Signs That Your Startup Could Be The Next Exception

Startup Professionals Musings

Larry is the primary thinker about the company’s future direction, and still weighs in heavily on key hiring decisions. Google developed the most profitable form of advertising anyone had ever seen, ads selected real-time based on search terms. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5 Unique business tactics.

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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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The Austin Startup Diversity and Inclusion Pledge

Austin Startup

Back in December 2016 I had the idea to develop a startup pledge for diversity and inclusion here in Austin and since have informally been working with some folks to develop the idea. In the years following its implementation, the number of minorities hired to fill head-coach roles doubled.

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