The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2019

Hiring new talent is an inevitable and critical part of starting your own business, and it’s an exciting indication that your original idea has finally found its footing— now it just needs the manpower. Unfortunately, many employers underestimate the hiring process and make the mistake of hiring the wrong kind of people.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Not just any carpet cleaning business, but specifically an endeavor in dry carpet cleaning services. This blog aims to guide you through the process, from the initial steps of conducting market research to operational management, hiring staff, and more. Finding the sweet spot where quality meets affordability is key.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. The challenge is to avoid the bad risks, while actively seeking and managing the smart risks. Implement a modern real business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Minimize one-time sales in your business model. You need a stable customer base with an automatically renewing revenue stream, such as the subscription model. Minimize permanent hiring and customized operational facilities. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations with successful existing business models who use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants that might threaten their business models. Hire/advisors from the inside industry but use them to make you smarter not just to outsource the work.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This way, management can review calls made by these agents. Help desk software is a tool to help you manage support requests and improve customer satisfaction. You can create a knowledge base in any content management system (CMS) or platform. . Social Media Management Platform. Help Desk Ticketing System.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Remember, a year from now no one wants to be the CEO of a company out of business whose lament is, “I did what the board told me to do.”. This plan has three parts: Pivots to your new business model, changes to your operating plan, and what initiatives you save for the recovery. Your CFO now becomes the head of cash management.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

What few people know is that Buffett is not just a savvy investor but a great manager and business leader. Pick the Right Business (and Business Model). Find a Manager with the Right Qualities. Find a Manager with the Right Qualities. It is divided into five key sections: 1. Motivate Your Workforce.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As the farm fields flew by on the interstate I listened as Dave described how he translated his vision into a series of hypotheses and mapped them onto a business model canvas. He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers. Customer Discovery.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In many ways, getting an e-commerce company off of the ground is easier than a standard business; depending on your business model, you may not have to keep as much physical inventory, hire as many workers or deal with as many tax considerations. Starting your very own e-commerce company can be an exciting proposition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2019

New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. Building an ethical business is more than just compliance and meeting legal requirements, and it has big paybacks. Ethics can’t be managed. The reality is different.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

Your frugal role model of bringing your own lunch won’t be convincing to most employees. Staffing and people-management costs. As you scale up the business, you realize how many people you really need, including full-timers, managers, and hourly workers. Subscription software and computer hardware.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Business owners are struggling to meet targets, find new customers , and retain existing customers. You might need to consider hiring a marketing consultant. Marketing consultants are professionals with the relevant expertise to support your business and push it in the right direction. Time management. Crisis management.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2020

We manage and reward employees based on how well they display teamwork. We reward people for good teamwork and manage them toward collaboration and accountability when they display a lack of teamwork. At Brokers International, we believe that we exist to help those who partner with us build their businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Thus I was pleased to see the evidence confirming that perspective in a new book, “ The Amazon Management System ,” by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. In my view, every startup in today’s world would do well to adopt a management system with the same key objectives: Start with a customer-obsessed business model.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

of businesses are making CRO a priority. Hiring an agency can make sense for companies that don’t have the time or resources to build an in-house team. On the other hand, hiring a CRO agency isn’t always the best fit either. Hiring a CRO agency should create additional capacity when there’s a lack of resources.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

What had previously been a strength – their great management processes – now holds back their ability to respond to new challenges. HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 10, 2010

At the moment I’m going through the process of hiring new full time workers, plus John Reese is launching his Outsource Force program and giving away free videos on how to outsource, so this subject is a bit in focus for me right now. However I don’t want to take on the role of managing this team. Here’s My Plan.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2019

If you’re in retail (or thinking about it), success requires a smart balance of risk management and risk taking. Here are six areas of business that top performing retail businesses manage well. Take some time to develop a clear hiring process to advertise roles and assess and onboard new team members.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Surprisingly if you’ve filled out the business model canvas you already know who you need. She started by sketching her business model canvas on a napkin, but somehow the conversation quickly shifted to what was really on her mind. Who can I hire later? ——-. And what can I outsource?”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

Today I want to write briefly about a strategy we have used to very good effect when hiring new workers: outsource. I am not talking about outsourcing work to other companies, but rather finding, hiring, and developing a network of freelance vendors or contractors. This does not just apply in the world of creative services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

A platform is a business model and capability that can be accessed and customized by external users. The business owner must be the leader of the team, written specs are required, and the team must be populated only with A+ people. Raise the bar to avoid the biggest hiring mistakes.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Driven by job cuts and budget reductions urging businesses to hire more freelancers , online freelancing platforms will enable companies to tap into expanded pools of global talent and hire qualified workers. But the question remains, how can you leverage them to benefit your business? Here are our 4 tips.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Oftentimes, new startups are inclined to cut costs that seem superfluous or unnecessary for the core business model to function. But when you cut something that is essential in business — it is problematic; digital marketing is the best way for a startup to increase brand awareness and attract new paying customers.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Small businesses are grocery stores, hairdressers, consultants, travel agents, Internet commerce storefronts, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc. They are anyone who runs his/her own business. They hire local employees or family. They hire the best and the brightest. Most are barely profitable.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The lean start-up movement has been based on a single insight – which the purpose of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. The focus of the management team is largely internal – how do we cut cost without impacting the offering? The objective of a start-up is to discover a business model that works.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hire a CEO to Go Public. A founder’s lack of credibility/experience in growing and managing a large company hindered a company that wanted to go public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies. Board Control.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. The company was going to hire a VP of Marketing.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. To be fair, in the 20 th century, there really wasn’t a model for how to build startups other than write plan, raise money, and execute – the bubble was this method, on steroids.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Freed received the first scholarship created from a sustainable-business model by the collaboration of EALgreen, WW Grainger, Inc. As the organization grew over the years, what were the additional challenges to making it a sustainable business of its own? As an immigrant student from Argentina, Ms. and North Park University.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2014

The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy. Don’t assume that only “fast talkers” are good salesmen, or that you can hire a good salesman at the last minute to sell your product. business model customer sales entrepreneur investor startup'

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. Building an ethical business is more than just compliance and meeting legal requirements, and it has big paybacks. Ethics can’t be managed. The reality is different.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The cost of running a business today can be financially exhausting for companies that range from the simplest startups to the most well-established corporations. To create a sustainable business model, owners and manager now must consider how their business processes and infrastructure can save money instead of draining their budgets.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

by Shawn Overcast , managing director at gothamCulture. Depending on your startup’s needs, it can be a toss-up on whether to hire for attitude or skill. When he founded ClientLoyalty , Barnett leveraged the proven skill sets of his first two hires to attract more funding from investors. How to Make Human Capital Work for You.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In fact, remote work is on the rise – especially in the form of virtual assistants – and it’s one of the primary reasons why more small businesses are opting to outsource work. Inefficiencies can often cost businesses between 20-30% of their annual revenue. Virtual Assistants: What’s All the Fuss? They help filter communication.

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