YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2020

by Roland Polzin , MBA and Co-founder of Wing AI. Personal assistants are often hired to prepare decisions and information for managers and take care of miscellaneous tasks for busy executives and CEOs — who all earn higher incomes. Computers are not yet actually smart.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ?

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 4, 2024

Traditional methods result in your business losing both time and money, as the cycle of hiring and firing becomes costly and disruptive. In many businesses, the hiring process is seen as a mere formality. A job description is created, candidates are interviewed, and a new hire is selected. And, let’s face it, I’m quite charming.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 20, 2014

I’m reproducing in full here because it’s a great explanation of our solo-founder hypothesis and how we work more generally. Are you a solo founder with an idea? Snaptrip started as an idea, an excel spreadsheet and a passionate founder called Matt. THE DYNAMIC BETWEEN FOUNDER AND TEAM. HOW IT STARTED.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2017

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , and author of “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: However, as a businessman, I recognize that to truly solve this problem on a macro-level, hiring diverse employees must directly translate into higher profits. The good news is that the time has finally come.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He begins by explaining how he arrived at his conclusion: I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder – a software engineer who works for no cash – to help me build my dream website.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Aaron Skonnard is the CEO and co-founder of Pluralsight , an online training resource for Web developers and IT professionals. Let’s look at five advantages code-savvy founders and CEOs bring to their investors and businesses: 1. Navigating the tech landscape. Making informed decisions. Is this whole “iPad” thing going anywhere?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

Small and medium-sized businesses frequently face difficulties in meeting the high costs associated with hiring agencies or creating content on their own. This difficulty is something that Jatin Mehta, one of the co-founders of SpeedyBrand, is aware of. Q: How does SpeedyBrand benefit SMBs in online marketing?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

by Sanjoe Jose, CEO and Co-founder of Talview. According to Navitas Ventures’ survey on digital transformation in higher education , which included students, edtech founders, and university leaders, the primary goal of digital transformation is improving student experience. Automation improves experience.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” And if that person leaves, you’ve just lost six months to hire and get back up to speed on that thing. Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. A team of one is brittle, but fast.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 11, 2021

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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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. I’ve seen people succeed as solo founders – but I think not having a co-founder makes an already hard journey that much harder. The rest is history.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 16, 2023

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. After 10 years of building K9, my knowledge and advice to founders were becoming dated. The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers. All startups find themselves struggle with hiring to meet growing demand, leaving most startups scrambling to onboard hires. Founder Labs in 2011, Everett pitched an idea to make calendars more useful for executive assistants.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2019

by Josh Fechter , co-founder and CEO of Squibler. By understanding employee engagement , you can enhance productivity, improve retention in demanding fields and deliver higher quality products and services. Josh Fechter is the co-founder and CEO of Squibler. Why keep employees engaged?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

by Pratik Dholakiya , Co-Founder of E2M and MoveoApps. In a demanding career such as entrepreneurship, one can’t afford to ignore work-life balance. You can hire part-time employees or outsource some of your routine tasks such as bookkeeping, copywriting, and legal paperwork and contracts. Try them now!

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. It seems learning to code has become a theme in 2012, and the demand is being met by Code Year and others. guest author. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. That’s why everyone says execution is everything, not the idea itself.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2021

“It has been awe-inspiring to see so many people take the leap towards business ownership as a means to change their lives and follow their dreams, especially in the face of such adverse conditions,” said ZenBusiness CEO and co-founder Ross Buhrdorf.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2017

By focusing on the needs of the end-user, the developers of The Embrace—who were also students at Stanford—were able to create a highly demanded and successful business plan. No exit strategy for firing lazy co-founders. Choosing the right co-founder is as important as choosing the right spouse.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

HW: You were co-founder and longtime co-host of Planet Money, one of the most successful podcasts out there. There’s, like, 20 people who are true pros in long-form podcasting/audio production and pretty much every one of them has a job they like and isn’t going to do work for hire. And that is great.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

by Emmanuel de Watteville, co-founder of Blue Ocean Ventures. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the company’s founding team members, and those they hire at the ground zero stage of development. Before sealing the deal, the final step is to learn whether or not the company’s founder is willing to pivot in the future.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. What I was interested in seeing was that a lot of these founders believe that they’re not just creating technology, they're creating change and culture. Also, it's not unusual for the interview process to take months.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2021

by Andy Prakash, founder of Privacy Ninja. The increasing pervasiveness of online activities have led to a greater demand for interconnectivity. This environment is more apparent in nations such as Singapore where there is extensive internet connectivity and the citizens are digitally knowledgeable.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. With the tools now freely available online, you don’t necessarily need to hire a team of advertising professionals to reach audiences overseas. Attracting Overseas Customers.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

by Evan Varsamis, Founder/CEO at Gadget Flow Inc. Myself and my co-founders were just a bunch of young upstarts with a big idea. Come early 2014, myself and the team at Gadget Flow had been trying to cope with the website’s demanding tasks. I always hired a new team member when we were at the edge of a burn-out.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For the next entry in The Startup Magazine’s founder interview series , we are featuring Alejandro Russo, founder of Candela Mamajuana. TSM: How do you handle the challenge of balancing the demands of entrepreneurship with personal life responsibilities and parenthood? Candela is not Alejandro’s first startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2021

Here are five of the most common examples: Failure to document a Founder agreement at the beginning. This oversight can lead to the so-called “forgotten Founder” problem. Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Retailers have proven amazingly resilient in the past year, as they’ve worked through the mass shift to ecommerce and balancing the demands of lockdowns and shifting consumer behavior. Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot. Do you need to hire additional staff to complete the drop-offs? In a nutshell: the future came early.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. Hiring is a problem because when you become successful, people want your talent. Magazine’ Inc.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 15, 2014

My daily life consists of (a) setting the strategy and rationale of the Engineering & Innovation department, based on a mixture of vision, data, and the needs of the rest of the company, (b) participate in doing the same for the whole company, (c) hire, (d) manage the managers whose teams execute the real work.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In fact, according to Founders Forum’s survey of 400+ startup owners, 94% of the respondents were already working from home before the pandemic. Out-of-sync teams: The communication gap between co-workers can throw the entire team off-track. And as more companies go remote, the demand for remote-friendly products will keep growing.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

by Aytekin Tank, founder & CEO of JotForm. 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. At the time, most users accessed the web through Internet Explorer.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer. Step 1: Test your demand. It may surprise you to learn that the technology itself takes a back seat to market demand.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Tal Raviv is the co-founder of Ecquire. Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that “Lean MVP” – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint. This post was originally published on OnStartups.

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