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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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Crisis versus Opportunity: 6 Ways to Bootstrap a Startup in a Post-COVID-19 World While Navigating the New Normal

ReadWriteStart

Thus, let’s start this discussion by defining the global crisis caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19 , so that we can look forward to finding the opportunity in the crisis. What this means is that the global economy has been paused while we wait for the virus to burn itself out. Ways to bootstrap a startup. What is a startup?

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Four Major Startup Stages That You Should Know About

YoungUpstarts

According to Lee M Von Kraus, PHD and a mentor at Clarity.fm, “Early stage startups are usually pre-money startup that are bootstrapping the early development of a product.”. Either to go for investors pitch to them directly about your product, or keep yourself bootstrapped. Hiring more resources. Global expansion.

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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

ReadWriteStart

Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Rajan Chandi then discussed HirePlug.com , a Facebook application to help large employers manage referral hiring. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). HirePlug.com.

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Intermediate C++ 3D Graphics Developer

Transformify

Now Hiring for an Intermediate C++ 3D Graphics Developer As part of the project team, your role will include leveraging the latest tools and technology in C++ 3D graphics for a diverse selection of desktop application software projects, as well as collaborating with your team in building innovative software products.

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IT Management Company InvGate Just Got a Huge Cash Injection

ReadWriteStart

Gesto decided to scale InvGate after bootstrapping for the past 14 years. Gesto plans to invest the fresh funds in global expansion, such as the recruitment of new employees, the opening of new regional offices, and the introduction of new products and technologies. Q: Where are InvGate’s offices located?

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #3: The five critical ingredients to build a big company

Austin Startup

I was responsible for hiring the team, fundraising, establishing our Board of Directors and Advisors, and selling our initial clients. You need capital to hire sales people to capture your market quickly, or it is likely that someone else more aggressive will take the lead. Read my Lucky7 Bootstrap or VC?