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7 Startup Entrepreneurs On How To Attract Top Talent

YoungUpstarts

Because of that asymmetry, it can often be more important to create novel ways of attracting top talent to a new company, than it is to obtain operational funding. Philip Acuña is a journalist and PR strategist based in Medellin, Colombia. If they achieve, they should be rewarded well to retain talent.”

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8 Pieces of Advice For CEOs That Need To Scale Their Startups

YoungUpstarts

” – Jonny Videl, Callsheet Operator. Philip Acuña is a journalist and PR strategist based in Medellin, Colombia. He has previously worked for organizations including the California Immigrant Policy Center and Colombia Reports. People just want to know they are in good hands.” Hire Proactively.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Hiring overseas virtual assistants solved the need to fill out the vacancies and accomplished the dream of operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When Clare DeNicola and I decided to start a full-service marketing and PR firm 10 years ago, we knew we didn't want to take the usual agency branding route: put our names on the door.

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