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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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How to Build a Healthcare Startup

Up and Running

For example, having flexible work hours means you can hire talented candidates from different time zones, which will increase your productivity while keeping the costs down. Hiring an in-house legal counsel or consulting with an experienced law firm specializing in healthcare law is probably the best solution.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Motivation to Grow Their Business

Hearpreneur

Most people think when they are contemplating divorce, they need to hire an attorney. Several years ago, while I was creating videos for non-fictional books and uploading them on YouTube, I realized the potential of videos in the modern world and the hassle creators have to go through to perfect their videos. 28- The desire to compete.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. I just have a hard time evaluating competence of business co-founders. I'll need damn good evidence of your competence (e.g.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

Hire a Programmer The Hope: You’ll use the programmer to build a prototype that will get you traction and experience. You know how to product manage and you’ve hired programmers before. I recommend you start by reading this post on how to hire a programmer. I plan on bootstrapping my upcoming startup.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc.,

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. For most companies, it is simply a non-starter. And they hire very aggressive securities attorneys to represent their interests. Venture capitalists Cut Tough Deals.