blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. While interviewing such a wide cross section of people, I realized that I had a golden opportunity to test some of the prevalent folk wisdom about hiring. As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2012

Starting your business with a very low investment is called “bootstrapping,” and these entrepreneurs usually have the most fun. Don’t hire any employees. Make sure any employees needed are a function of your “bandwidth,” not your confidence or interests.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

As you’ve bootstrapped your business, you’ve had to synthesize a lot of new information, and you’ve had to frequently learn by doing. If you have the time-and-energy bandwidth to do so, set up profiles for your business on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Consider hiring pros to boost your reputation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2011

Starting your business with a very low investment is called “bootstrapping,” and these entrepreneurs usually have the most fun. Don’t hire any employees. Make sure any employees needed are a function of your “bandwidth,” not your confidence or interests.

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Gust

JULY 29, 2012

Starting your business with a very low investment is called “bootstrapping,” and these entrepreneurs usually have the most fun. Don’t hire any employees. Make sure any employees needed are a function of your “bandwidth,” not your confidence or interests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2010

Starting your business with a very low investment is called “bootstrapping,” and these entrepreneurs usually have the most fun. Don’t hire any employees. Make sure any employees needed are a function of your “bandwidth,” not your confidence or interests.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

They often have lower bandwidth. chriscoyier fire incompetent devs and hire someone who can do it right from the start. ” Chris Coyier: I’m serving responsive layouts, use of Twitter-bootstrap, Skeleton, and custom media query based responsive layouts. Mobile is a whole different world. chriscoyier Organize.

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