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Don’t hire people you know!

David Teten

In a rigorous study, Howard Aldrich, Martin Ruef, and Nancy Carter found that entrepreneurs pick founding team members based on trust and people who are similar to them, not based on identifying people with the most-needed skills (see the 2003 paper). article discusses our tendency to hire people who look and think like we do.

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Don’t hire people you know!

David Teten

In a rigorous study, Howard Aldrich, Martin Ruef, and Nancy Carter found that entrepreneurs pick founding team members based on trust and people who are similar to them, not based on identifying people with the most-needed skills (see the 2003 paper). article discusses our tendency to hire people who look and think like we do.

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. He was previously Senior Vice President, responsible for product lines and manufacturing operations, at SigmaTel through its 2003 IPO and then acquisition by Freescale.

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Startup Hiring: The 10% Solution

www.readwriteweb.com

Need $25,000 for product development? ReadWriteWeb | Startups | Small Business | Enterprise | Cloud Computing | Developers | Mobile. © 2003-2012 ReadWriteWeb. Potential employees, at least the good ones, arent interested. Theyd rather start their own companies.". Which is now fairly easy to do. No problem.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. I learned how to better run a product management process. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. The things you learn in tough environments.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

In a webcast conversation, Lean Startup for Growing Companies , Eric Ries will talk with two Lean Startup Conference speakers: Wyatt Jenkins, VP of Product at Shutterstock , a stock photo site that has become one of the world’s largest two-sided marketplaces, and has expanded since its founding in 2003 from a single development team to 12 cross-functional (..)

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. David should use his credibility in capacity planning and convince a dozen customers to pay him consulting fees to solve their capacity planning problems.