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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He was raised and educated in London.

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Should You Offer Equity Compensation to Employees?

Up and Running

In 2005, David Choe was invited to paint a number of murals at Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto. If equity compensation is on your mind before you start hiring, make sure you’re good at hiring excellent candidates, especially if you’ll be offering restricted stock rather than stock options. See Also: How to Hire Your First Employee.

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How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

www.inc.com

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture. People would only get paid if the candidates got hired.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? find/hire freelancers. hire low-cost international engineering talent. VWorker -Â find/hire freelancers. Intellectual Property Law For Startups Blog. s most comprehensive collection of business and intellectual property information.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. Want to start a startup?

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. For example, a seed firmshould be able to give advice about how to approach VCs, which VCsobviously dont need to do; whereas VCs should be able to giveadvice about how to hire an "executive team," which is not an issuein the seed stage. Want to start a startup? Many are underfunded.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

If it was free, the cost of support would be high enough I’d have to hire someone to handle support just for that app, and that cost would have to come from something else. #29 In early 2005 37signals stated they had 10,000 unique readers, so that works out to maybe 40,000 monthly. 29 Business Doctor on 08.18.10