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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions.

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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

Leadership brand development. In addition to goodwill justified by a great leader and an outstanding team, investors will use their due diligence process to assess the organizational structure and effectiveness as well. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment.

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10 Lessons To Be Learned By Winning Teams Everywhere

Startup Professionals Musings

Then it extends to the hiring process. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage. When it’s time for due diligence, we will talk to your team. Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay grounded in reality. Marty Zwilling

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Tackling The Talent Gap: Best Practices For Uncovering New Hires

YoungUpstarts

It is harder to diversify if your first few hires are homogenous, so branch out beyond your typical hiring pool to seek out diversity of all types —race, gender, culture, and education. When you think you’ve found the right hire, do your due diligence to ensure it’s a two-way fit. Look to organizations like i.c.

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Recruitment: Top mistakes made by hiring managers

The Startup Magazine

If you do make a bad hire, you might have the chance to rectify it through the initial probation period, but in general it’s something that can cost your business a lot, particularly if you are a startup. You don’t perform due diligence. It means that mistakes come at a cost. You don’t follow your gut.

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. I’ll address the specifics of what this Founder Developer Gap looks like below. Gap closed, right? Probably not. Accounting?

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10 Goodwill Elements To Raise Your Business Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

Leadership brand development. In addition to goodwill justified by a great leader and an outstanding team, investors will use their due diligence process to assess the organizational structure and effectiveness as well. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment.

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