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6 Recruiting Best Practices for Finding and Closing Top Talent

Up and Running

Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, those gains have disappeared – at least for the time being. . These days, “recruitment” is only one part of the talent acquisition process. . If your company doesn’t yet have a talent acquisition plan in place, start there. down significantly from the ratio of 5.8

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

If Bird has thousands of scooters in a neighborhood (and if it can acquire these scooters at cheaper prices due to scale advantages) then it’s significantly more difficult for new entrants to launch without serious capital and it’s hard to get serious capital from investors who perceive you’re late to the game. Brand matters. Not at all.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

Tonight’s event at the 5A5 Steak Lounge in San Francisco was even better. The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles. A chief technology officer (CTO) is a C-suite executive who is focused on scientific and technological issues including web applications, mobile applications, electronic and digital media development.

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Want to Work for a Startup? 10 Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

mashable.com

Social Media. Social Media. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit. Proceed — if at all — with extreme due diligence and caution. If theyre all about acquisition, ask about time frame goals. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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Highlights from the 2009 Business of Software Conference

Software By Rob

Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. The speaking line-up is a who’s who of software bloggers and authors, including Geoffrey Moore, Paul Graham, Dharmesh Shah and Joel Spolsky. An excellent presentation from a brilliant guy.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.