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When Should a Small Business Hire an Executive Team?

Up and Running

As you find your footing and begin to scale, you might feel ready to hire a formal executive team. What’s right for one company may not make sense for another, but the goal is always the same — to hire talent that will ultimately help the business thrive. When is the right time to hire an executive team?

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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. Maybe that’s why bootstrapped startups are the norm, rather than externally funded ones. bootstrap business entrepreneur startup'

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How I Knew That I Could Bootstrap My Company

YoungUpstarts

Encouraged by the demand, and motivated by direct conversations from users, I began to realize that my personal pain point with form building was shared by many people around the world. Determining if your product can be bootstrapped. Business decisions must be made carefully at a bootstrapped company. Learning by doing.

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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

Gust

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. Maybe that’s why bootstrapped startups are the norm, rather than externally funded ones. Image via niaje.com and www.yec.co.

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Don’t Look For Investors for All the Wrong Reasons

Startup Professionals Musings

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. Maybe that’s why bootstrapped startups are the norm, rather than externally funded ones. Need expensive resources up front.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

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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Every Startup Goes Through Distinctive Funding Phases

Startup Professionals Musings

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Typically, they must also change and tune their executive team, to keep up with the increasing demands of a growing company on process discipline and sustainable success. Early or embryonic stage.

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