Transformify

AUGUST 8, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. What does diversity hiring mean to you? Our branding was overhauled to show the company we wanted to be and attract the kind of people we wanted to hire.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 25, 2018

Reading that headline, you might think, “Wait, why would you be scared of Amazon setting up its second HQ in Atlanta?” And Atlanta is now among the 20 finalists , and is the betting favorite in many cases. So, back to the headline of this post, why would I be scared of Amazon coming to Atlanta? Well, I’m not.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Check them out down below: Atlanta. Atlanta is a fantastic city to start a small business in. Secondly, it’s well-known that Atlanta has great educational institutes. This leads to a wide pool of educated talent to pick from when hiring employees. So, you can get the legalities out of the way, fast.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Our long-term goal is to ensure that the best people can consistently find their calling within the HOF family, including identifying logical next career progression opportunities across different HOF companies when a rising employee does not have a logical next move within her current employer. CB Insights’ Ava is a version of this.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This often makes multinational companies bring foreign workers to the United States or train their employees to showcase matchless results. American ventures find endless reasons and opportunities to welcome foreign employees to the United States on a temporary or permanent basis. So, why not do it from the beginning?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 11, 2022

For this reason, some workers will find that they can get better compensation by hiring a workers compensation lawyer Atlanta. There are some cases where an employee who sustains injury at work can file a claim outside of worker’s compensation, and in this case hiring a personal injury lawyer would be appropriate.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Mailchimp looks like it’s going to be a huge exit down in Atlanta, but that might turn out to be a one-off. An individual standout founder who has the ability to recruit their first ten employees can build something interesting to a point where they’ll have no trouble getting funding, more employees, and customers just about anywhere.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 4, 2020

COVID-19 has hurt many companies, employees, and families, top sales talent has been no exception. As for ISG, we’re continuing full steam ahead with fully remote hiring and remote training in both of our locations because the way we see it, no way to go but forward. We’re still here, and we’re still hiring” Hawn says.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

you can check out this story on Shout Atlanta. We then moved “the business” into my mother’s basement in Atlanta and tricked blackmailed convinced Danny Davis to join us. Raj canceled the rest of his trip and moved to Atlanta. Tip #3 to living your best life: Be all in on your dreams. Now to the matter at hand.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Atlanta, GA. Minneapolis, MN.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2016

In the end, it’s the cultural aspects of your company that will help you build an empowered and enthusiastic employee base, while allowing you live to your fullest growth potential. If a leadership team truly values its core values, then it is critical to hire other leaders and team members who share those values.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2017

At the time of this writing I have just attended a Georgia Tech Foundation board meeting in Atlanta and am always there surrounded by achievers who exhibit similar energy. You also win employees with energy. Even the emeritus members like myself pay attention and ask the important questions. That’s not a bad model to follow.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Johnson Cook , the dude that sits right behind me at Atlanta Tech Village , and who flew the pirate flag on top of the building last week cementing himself forever in my consciousness as a true bad@ass, wrote a post recently called, The Top 3 Jobs of a Startup CEO. The smaller the team, the more important every person on that team is.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. Plus, I love the sense of humor the company and its employees have. Second, it’s very easy to learn and use.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 1, 2014

The glorious green grass of the work-from-home employee is a goal for many successful people (and not-so-successful people) and a great way to hire the best talent without having to pay to relocate them. It’s just challenging and requires even more discipline than might be necessary for a normal employee. No physical demands.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

You don’t even have to hire a permanent specialist to monitor the network. As your growth increases, you’ll need to upgrade your business facilities to accommodate more expansive operations and a larger customer and employee base. One particular example is the Jim Ellis Automotive Group, based in Atlanta. Scalable Bandwidth.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 27, 2018

The article, titled, Flying Into A Triple-Digit Growth Spurt, Mobile Agency Dragon Army Commits to Hiring Minority Scholarship Students , highlights both our fast growth along with our commitment to the community.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Katie, what does diversity hiring mean to you? Yet, it takes time for the hiring practices to be adjusted in line with this reality. Absolutely.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 27, 2016

The energy there is palpable already and I believe it’s going to be a great addition to the city of Atlanta. Those values helped guide his company from a one-man operation in his apartment in midtown Atlanta at the age of 36, to a company with thousands of employees and market cap of $3 billion.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Have not met anyone I wanted to hire who was willing to work for equity. My post looks at this from the consultant/employee point of view. Posted by: Atlanta Search Engine Optimization | April 16, 2008 at 07:38 AM. Should You Hire People With Graduate Degrees for Your Startup? Good point. Verify your Comment.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Last month was honored to be chosen by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as one of their Most Admired CEOs of 2017. During the process the ABC asked me to do a Q&A on leadership, and I thought I would share the interview: Atlanta Business Chronicle in July named our list of Atlanta’s Most Admired CEOs of 2017.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

In fact, there was a time when I had employees who were graduates of Harvard and were using Facebook, and I wasn't able to use it myself. Next it launched in cities including Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, San Diego, Phoenix and Seattle. Likewise, it gives you time to hire and train the staff you'll need to satisfy your customers.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I hired another guide to help with the load, and I started charging for tickets to pay the guide. I encourage my employees to work lifestyle hours that allow them to be whole people while also growing their careers and growing the business. I hire the best, so we’re all able to have it all. 10 – To Keep Traveling Abroad.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 22, 2020

There are mean people everywhere, and some work at brands and hire agencies. We had ~200 employees that went to the new company, and five years later roughly 90% of those employees were no longer with the company. Many times these changes are outside of the agency’s control, and they result in necessary but unfortunate layoffs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Pamela Slim Pamela Slim is a seasoned coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own business. Contact 5 board members of the Atlanta Association of Gluten-Free Libertarian Physicians 2. Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation , is one of the top career and marketing blogs on the web.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool; and the third with Mark Feinberg , CEO of Uruut. My first client, CoreNet Global, hired me right out of the gate and they were a client for nine years which is something I am very proud of.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. 16- Treat employees in a better way. This was with the companies who wanted to hire them. I just could not sell myself. So, I started doing that.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The nine teams we have people in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin and Atlanta. In 5 months since the program began his revenue is growing, he’s moved out of his basement and has hired his first employees. Of the nine companies, five were started by female founders.Of those 5, 2 are founded by black women.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You really want to see how your company treats its employees, treats its customers, treats the environment, taking a longer-term view." I've also been spending a lot of time on the phone with my family and my mom in Atlanta. That's how they can hire people. You really want to see the whole system. Progress was made.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Delta’s President, Ed Bastian, took the time to chat with some of the people from my Leadership Atlanta class and we were all blown away. Ed also wasn’t shy about saying that he always tries to hire people smarter than him. And you could tell he really does care. ” “Leadership is not a popularity contest.”

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. As the volume of startups increases, big companies will start to develop standardized procedures that make acquisitions little more work than hiring someone. Atlanta is just as hosed as Munich. Its cities that compete, not countries.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The night I decided to start the company, my wife and I were having dinner with the man who would be our first employee and our creative director for the first twelve years. The very thing that made them “professional” also made them forgettable and less likely to be hired again over someone else. Photo Credit: Scott Harris.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The ‘’Gig Economy’’ series sheds light on the future of work and the pros and cons of hiring freelancers and gig workers. My experience with freelancers was very positive and I decided to adopt an all-remote concept and hire remote workers regardless of their location. I live in Los Angeles.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I was not an early employee of Google, nor did I exit a company for 6 zillion dollars. I could have gotten a nastygram, but instead got hired… client numero uno was in the books. Hunter: We met last year and i’ve been impressed by your eye for interesting companies but I’ve got no idea how Ludlow Ventures got started. Let’s back up.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

Soon, we were getting referrals in states (outside of Phoenix, where I was at the time) and instead of telling those clients no (because I realized if I said no, they would find someone else) I flew to the different areas, reached out to my network and would hire and train sitters in those cities. Thanks to Hunter Stunzi, SnapCap !

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver : I always talk about, I joined Twitter around the 30th employee and stayed there until 3,000, and that was breakneck scale and speed of growing. And that was $100,000 that came in to bootstrap Chicago and Detroit and Atlanta. They hire local chefs, but they may take over a stadium kitchen. Wait, this is incredible.

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