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Scaling from maker to manager

Version One Ventures

But as the start-up scales and you hire employees, your day-to-day is taken over by more managerial tasks, like hiring and managing people, running company meetings, etc. First – choose your path: do you really want to transition into a manager? . How to grow into the role of manager.

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Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Tweet. --> It’s a big decision to make your first hire, because what you’re really deciding is whether you want to keep a lifestyle business or attempt to “cross the chasm” and maybe even get rich. There’s already a lot of great advice about hiring at little startups. (Powered by LaunchBit ).

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Follow This Six-Point Checklist To Strengthen Employee Onboarding

YoungUpstarts

Sure, they may hand out a few training booklets and introduce new hires to the team, but successful onboarding goes much deeper than that. When organizations fail to implement such a strategy, new hires slip through the cracks. These companies also see a 69% boost in new hire retention. Align all the Departments.

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How To Hire And Train A New Employee During The Summer (When Most People Are On Vacation)

YoungUpstarts

Recruiting and hiring employees is challenging, if only because the stakes for making the right choice are so high. Say you had to replace a worker who had been hired only recently, since they turned out to be a poor cultural fit. Many organizations don’t hire evenly across the calendar year.

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Advice For Managing Remote Teams

View from Seed

Since social distancing orders have been put in place, a huge portion of our workforce has transformed their homes into workplaces and are trying their best to manage this new work environment. This is also a huge adjustment for those managers who are used to managing in person teams. Max has managed remote teams at 2 companies.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

Some of the information below will apply. While the appearance matters, remember you are hiring the development firm primarily for its development skills, not its graphic design skills. Employee and Contractor Details: How many full-time W2 employees and contractors do they employ, and where are they located?

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Contractor Management ROI: Financial Gains Beyond Project Completion

Transformify

Hiring contractors can be a tricky business. Many managers rush their projects and find not the best contractors available but the most convenient at a moment’s notice. Ironically, the supposed “strength” of hiring contractors, in this case, flexibility, becomes a liability.