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Don’t hire people you know!

David Teten

Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them. Those are good reasons to be friends, but poor reasons to hire someone. When you want to hire someone, you should strictly focus on hiring the best possible person for the open job.

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Don’t hire people you know!

David Teten

Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them. Those are good reasons to be friends, but poor reasons to hire someone. When you want to hire someone, you should strictly focus on hiring the best possible person for the open job.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

Exactly three months after its $48 Million funding announcement, Smooth-Stone today detailed its company momentum, including significant new executive hires, new office space and renaming the company. The new name, Calxeda , pronounced “Cal-zeh-dah,” is a derivative of the Latin for “Smooth-Stone.” Naval Nuclear Power Program.

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Startup Hiring: The 10% Solution

www.readwriteweb.com

Startup Hiring: The 10% Solution. Pinterest can hire, Square can hire, Dropbox can hire - these companies have a clear demand for their products and are becoming market leaders," explains Naval Ravikant, founder of startup advice site Venture Hacks. Need $25,000 for product development? No problem.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Among others, the team was instrumental in the development of the Centrino processor, which changed the company’s strategic roadmap, in 2003, and the Duo Core 2 architecture in 2006. INTEL-ISRAEL TO HIRE 1000 NEW WORKERS TO DEVELOP 22NM. The semiconductor giant intends to invest $2.7

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. I dont think sharding came from the MMO world, we were using the term at Google before MMOs started becoming popular. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said. Eric, I stop by regularly!