Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

You’ve decided to hire a development shop to build an MVP , give your product a facelift, or build that mobile app you’ve been wanting to build for years. If this is your first time hiring a dev shop, it can be confusing understanding the difference between competitors. by Stella Fayman, CEO and cofounder of matchist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. As a new entrepreneur in a new startup, it’s better to walk before you try to run.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2022

Freelancers are being hired for their competitive rate, skills, and versatility. Of course, it can’t all just be that, so today, we’ll be discussing why you should consider hiring freelancers for your business. This is where hiring freelancers becomes a huge benefit. In fact, both are complimentary.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. Could I work here if he wanted to hire me?&#

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. It's important to keep business agile. 1- Expanding skillset.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start. This business phase is where every entrepreneur starts. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When entrepreneurs silently disengage from their ventures, it can result in missed opportunities for innovation, loss of valuable expertise, and a chilling effect on the entrepreneurial spirit within communities. We asked entrepreneurs, and business owners how quiet quitting affects entrepreneurship. Here are the responses. #1-

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When entrepreneurs silently disengage from their ventures, it can result in missed opportunities for innovation, loss of valuable expertise, and a chilling effect on the entrepreneurial spirit within communities. We asked entrepreneurs, and business owners how quiet quitting affects entrepreneurship. Here are the responses. #1-

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

This solution is a philosophy, and this philosophy is AGILE. Agile is a manifesto that has been put forth by a bunch of people and to implement it. Moreover, scrum and agile aren’t the same thing. As an entrepreneur, you might always be concerned about execution, speed, and pivots, and scrum provides you all of this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. As a new entrepreneur in a new startup, it’s better to walk before you try to run.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the tough lessons they have learned in 2020. #1- Historically, these have been the times where entrepreneurs and business owners have emerged. Well as we ramped up to hire again with our pre-pandemic growth we’ve now expanded our hiring globally for new employees.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2022

Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. The COVID-19 pandemic may have changed the way we work for good, creating unique opportunities for entrepreneurs in the process. 4- Entrepreneurs would do well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 4- Remain agile as a brand. 1- Collaborate and provide more employment.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

In order to find out, I asked a panel of 12 successful founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What are the pros/cons of hiring an agency to do development work, vs. having all your technical talent in house? If it’s a one-time project with a completion date, hiring an agency is a good way to go.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

So, that’s why we are excited about 2022 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. Here are the pivots other entrepreneurs see businesses making this year: #1- More options for solo travelers. 15- Study supply chains and hiring trends. 16- Become more agile and flexible. Photo Credit: Cody Candee.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The no-code movement is one that’s completely revolutionizing the way small- and medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurs take their operations and ideas digital, and it’s only just begun. As a result, entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs, marketers, and anyone in between can take advantage. How no-code tools work. Accessibility.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

These pieces of advice go against the notion of having a concrete blueprint, urging entrepreneurs to embrace uncertainty and navigate the uncharted waters of their journey with an adventurous spirit. 5- Hire the experts Photo Credit: Rachel Eigen “You can do it all starting small” — B.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Here are a few ways hiring based on titles alone fails to serve the needs of a growing business. Approach this process with a thoughtful and honest attitude to reveal the core skills your new hire should possess. Banking juggernaut Goldman Sachs recently hired former U.S. It limits you to one skillset. Siewert Jr.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked for the magic that has made Amazon the world's most valuable brand , from a total unknown only twenty years ago. They present a convincing story that every entrepreneur has the same potential, but most get sidetracked and bogged down by their technology, competitors, and internal organization.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Being an entrepreneur or business owner has its share of ups and downs. While the downs can be pretty low the ups always seem to triumph for a true entrepreneur at heart. Milestones are what entrepreneurs and business owners work towards. To be a successful entrepreneur, one can never standstill. 1- Freedom with my time.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Founder’s Journey To truly succeed, a founder needs resilience , a consistent capacity to innovate, and the agility to adapt to an ever-changing market. Hiring individuals who are not only skilled but also align with the company’s vision is vital. Build a Strong Team The backbone of any successful startup is its team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Labels: sllconf Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But I recommend entrepreneurs and prospective business builders consider the Agency Builder model. So an entrepreneur forming a startup studio benefits from having experience in the industry sector they hope to serve. Following the digital agency model for a startup, studio offers significant advantages to entrepreneurs.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Develop agility and adaptability Image credit Having agility in decision-making is a vital aspect of achieving business success. Despite the difficulties it involves for entrepreneurs, it supports business growth and allows decision-makers to focus on strategic objectives.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the industries that are ripe for disruption and here are the response; #1- Cell phone carrier. Disruption is necessary for growth, and as entrepreneurs, we need to help usher in change. The prevailing trends may favor some industries while others prove to be more profitable over time.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Here's what entrepreneurs predict for business in 2022. #1- Prezi hired the former director of product from Pixar to build a more cinematic video meeting experience. Think of the agility that comes with CAI, etc. Entrepreneurs will flock to business software that enables them to accomplish more with fewer employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start. This business phase is where every entrepreneur starts. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The ‘’Gig Economy’’ series sheds light on the future of work and the pros and cons of hiring freelancers and gig workers. Why do you hire gig workers and freelancers? Since I do all the hiring in my own department, I don’t have the luxury of outsourcing interviews or reading cover letters to anyone else.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. And it may work.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

So, that’s why we are excited about 2022 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. Here’s the pivot other entrepreneurs are making next year: #1- Work four days a week. It's important to keep business agile. Our first phase in this change will be automating the hiring process.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Every startup entrepreneur wants to see their company grow. So what are the biggest barriers startup entrepreneurs experience in their route to achieve long-term growth? You can hire more salespeople and practice social selling. . Adaptability/Agility . And more importantly, how can you avoid or overcome them? .

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2021

Here’s how entrepreneurs and business owners lead their teams; #1- A coaching style. Afterall, I hired them for their expertise and not simply to follow a set of instructions every day. A startup needs to be highly agile and adapt rapidly therefore every one of my employees takes part in shaping the company’s future.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. And the chief entrepreneur has a staff of chief portfolio manager, chief venture capitalist, and chief risk officer, right? LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. Second, don’t simply hire your buddies.

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