Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2022

In fact, his analysis of current statistics and many case studies leads both of us to recommend a focus on a set of key hiring principles that shouldn’t come as a surprise, but don’t seem to get followed very often these days by new companies, or even the more mature ones: Look for a cultural fit before a skill match.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Then make sure that everyone on the team does the same, and are motivated to improve the match with your startup. The process must be employee friendly, as well as customer friendly, and have feedback mechanisms to correct poor results. If service employees are not happy, the process isn’t working yet.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. The venture studio’s employees have already identified a product, market fit and early customers — meaning someone else has eliminated many of the early risks of a new venture.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At every point of contact, make sure your goods, services, and marketing messages match and even exceed the expectations of your target audience. Put your employees’ physical, mental, and emotional well-being first by offering wellness programmes, flexible work schedules, and opportunities for career growth.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

by Todd Patkin, author of “ Finding Happiness “ What were your last 10 or 15 employee conversations like? And chances are, unless they were delivered in a, shall we say, forceful tone of voice, your employees don’t mind hearing pertinent instructions and questions. So why does their morale seem to be, well, wilting?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

To match pace with rapidly changing technology and strengthen a position in the marketplace, entrepreneurs cannot just rely on the typical qualifications. To set good examples, they need to polish their entrepreneurship skills so that they can influence employees positively. Adaptability. Emotional Intelligence. Communication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2018

The leadership challenge is to find the training or mentoring to fill the skill gap, or to find a new role that is a better match for the skills they do have. These are people who simply don’t have the skills they need to do the required job. The leadership capital, and other costs to support square pegs is a huge startup resource drain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

One of the most stressful and unanticipated challenges that comes with starting a new business is hiring and managing employees. While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. Utilization and personal growth of virtual employees is not my problem.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Then make sure that everyone on the team does the same, and are motivated to improve the match with your startup. The process must be employee friendly, as well as customer friendly, and have feedback mechanisms to correct poor results. If service employees are not happy, the process isn’t working yet.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One of the crucial steps in getting your business up and running is to hire your first employees. Today, in a market where talent is in high demand, having a multi-pronged plan is always best but always ensure that your strategy matches the person you are looking to hire. What will help to attract these employees?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

With today’s interactive social media and the real-time Internet, both customers and employees see inside your company easily, so you can’t hide your real company culture. At the same time relationship perceptions have become the biggest drivers to customer loyalty and employee engagement. Lead with purpose as a balance to profit.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Any operation that involves an employee, like recruitment, payroll management, or even offboarding, can be included in these HR functions or duties. . Most HR functions are outsourced to an HR consulting agency by SMBs (10–500 employees). We are introducing new employees to the organization. What Is Human Resources Outsourcing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Less qualified prospects don’t have alternatives, so they tolerate the frustration, but may return the favor as an employee. Every company and team develops a unique culture of work flexibility, personality, and communication that must be matched to every new hire, independent of job qualifications.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2014

When employees behave with a lack of accountability, their actions hurt your bottom line, whether that’s through low personal productivity, negatively affecting morale, alienating coworkers and customers, or something else. Here are ten types of accountability-sabotaging employees to watch out for: 1. The cavalier promise maker.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In the past, working remotely was considered “normal” for entrepreneurs or independent contractors in the gig economy only, but organizations wanted employees, and consultants, to be onsite and working in the office. Employees clearly want and enjoy the flexibility. This greatly narrowed the talent pool. It’s a win-win.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 30, 2012

It isn’t that the job listing sites are bad, its just that employer and their mother uses those systems to find employees. In other words, the job board watering hole is saturated, and the select few great employees get picked up before you even get a chance to print out their resume. Tweet-an-Employee. Going To School?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Many business owners find it difficult to find knowledgeable, reliable employees. Learn how to simplify your hiring process to make finding good employees simple. Explore what makes an employee a great fit for your company and why employee retention is super important. Why is Employee Retention Important?

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Assigning tasks based on technicians’ expertise Field techs have raised the issue of the technician’s expertise level needing to match the task’s criteria. This eases the process of review to provide training for the technicians and consequently boosts employee performance and customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2020

The model was simple: we’d build a SMS texting tool that matched the food insecure with a free meal from a partner restaurant, all covered by donor dollars. By doing so, we’d keep restaurants busy (and their employees working), inject funds into the local community, and ease the burden on food banks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The Technician’s Perspective sees the business as a place in which people work to produce inside results for the Technician, producing employee income. The Entrepreneurial Perspective starts with a picture of a well-defined future, and then comes back to the present with the intention of changing it to match the vision.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 3, 2023

We’ve got it all wrong, how we’ve been managing our employees (like, really really really wrong ). Does it mean you’ll find a fantastic employee? Traditional recruiting equals employee turnover. Be it one hundred or one employee, you hired a human. Of course, you have to pay your employees. Here’s the thing.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2023

The cost-of-living crisis, fuelled by a range of economic headwinds, has seen businesses and their employees alike suffer from a severe loss of spending power, with the impact being felt throughout global HR departments. and ‘does this match your expectations?’

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2021

Here’s an explanation of what conditions make an employee benefit revenue-neutral and a look at the five best options for businesses in a post-pandemic hiring environment. Put simply, a revenue-neutral benefit is anything you can offer to employees that also produces tangible offsetting gains for the business itself.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2022

As droves of workers settle into the new normal of hybrid work — partly remote, partly in-person — more companies are looking for solutions to keep employees’ snack cravings at bay, whether at home or in the office. The post How to Keep Employees Snacking Healthily in the Hybrid Workplace appeared first on ReadWrite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

Less qualified prospects don’t have alternatives, so they tolerate the frustration, but may return the favor as an employee. Every company and team develops a unique culture of work flexibility, personality, and communication that must be matched to every new hire, independent of job qualifications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2019

She and I both offer the following insights on how to green your own pasture by helping employees find and use their strengths, and inspiring them to be more satisfied and productive, on your side of the fence, and even happily return if they do wander in their career advancement: Provide a structured approach to mentorship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2020

They are still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999. If you want to give stock options, or have already been giving them, the employees will love the liquidity of their options, and the thought of selling shares for a profit. Analysts want escalating profits.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2020

For many business owners, hiring new employees is one of the best parts of the job. In addition, you can also use the application to ask questions about work experience and educational history, so that you can compare them with that on the resume and make sure that they match up.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

Some of these world-class innovators get recruited by large companies like professional athletes, with paychecks to match. It does mean that success in building a company that scales depends on finding product/market fit, enough customers, enough financing, enough great employees, distribution channels, etc. Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

Since you and your employees will be spending most of your time in the office, it just makes sense that you put extra effort into choosing the best office space for your business. In addition to that, a conducive working environment could improve the efficiency of your employees in handling their respective tasks.

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Board Effect

MAY 26, 2022

The employee turnover rate has skyrocketed as workers reevaluate their employers and career choices. The amount of time you have to recruit employees and volunteers may be running out. Employers can’t see what employees are doing, and they don’t want to pay for unproductive employees. All good things come to an end.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This is to make sure that all of your employees will have a work environment that allows them to focus, learn, collaborate, and socialize. When determining the amount of space needed, it’s essential to consider the nature of your company, as well as the number of employees who are working for you.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2022

Its essence lies in the prompt connection of IT employees to solve problems without downtime due to a lack of qualified personnel. Simply put, these are temporary, “rented”, employees. In an outstaffing environment, it is easier and faster to find a job with a salary that matches the level of knowledge and skills of the candidate.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 11, 2020

What is the perfect match? T ech startups and government agencies might not seem like the perfect match, but modern startups are equipped to leverage government data in meaningful ways. In 11 weeks, the team used an algorithm to match data points with specific users at a 95% accuracy rate.

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