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Tech That Can Make The Freelance Economy Sustainable

YoungUpstarts

They want platforms and services that automate hiring and retention while ensuring freelancers feel as supported as their full-time colleagues. Communication Channels: Open communication channels give freelancers and full-time employees a chance to connect consistently. Business leaders have different needs, however.

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6 Recruiting Best Practices for Finding and Closing Top Talent

Up and Running

It may be difficult for businesses to even think about potential hires at a time like this , but developing a strategy for retaining and attracting top talent will put them in the driver’s seat when things turn for the better. . Keeping your social media channels up-to-date and full of helpful information. Get creative here.

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Honor Technology Closes $370 Million in Financing, Plans to Triple its Engineering and Product…

Austin Startup

The funding will be used to further invest in hiring remote workers, with an emphasis on the greater Austin and San Francisco areas due to Honor’s existing office footprints, and to expand Honor’s groundbreaking operations and technology capabilities across the Home Instead network, which has three offices in the greater Austin area.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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Out of the Crisis #15: Lenore Estrada on her SF New Deal, serving the hungry, and civic engagement

Startup Lessons Learned

"We knew that if we wanted immediate action, the only way to do that was with private money," Lenore Estrada explained to me as we talked about why she founded SF New Deal in the days after being forced to lay off most of the staff at her San Francisco bakery, Three Babes Bakeshop. Lenore Estrada is one of those people.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver.

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The Tech Mentorship Gap: How Code2040 Is Solving. What You Can Do. And How LinkedIn Can Help

Hunter Walker

Companies can hire a Fellow at hire.code2040.org. 2013 Class 18 Fellows - CMU, Stanford, MIT, University of Maryland- Baltimore County, Virginia Tech, University of Pittsburg, Harvey Mudd College, UCLA, USC, Berkeley, University of Huston, CSU Channel Islands, Notre Dame de Namur. Key Dates and Info for Code2040.