YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

However, many use employment platforms like Fiverr or UpWork to make these hires – and the platforms themselves are anything but unshakable institutions. Such a scenario would push hiring processes back to square one, potentially spelling disaster for those who solely contract online. Too big to fail. The way forward.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2014

By Russell Harley, veteran project manager and Director at PMO. This is a companion article to “ Five Ways to be a More Effective Project Manager “ That article obviously dealt with Project Managers improving their capabilities. The first would require a Cisco Network Engineer, not a Project Manager.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 12, 2011

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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. I hope many will read this and have an answer for the question, “what’s the different between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?&#. What makes a great tech team?

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

We’ll discuss the critical questions a CEO needs to answer to effectively capitalize on the remote labor market while avoiding the pitfalls most commonly encountered when people attempt to hire developers that are far from their company’s headquarters. Hiring remote talent is much more complicated than hiring in your backyard.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

Whether managing a financial investment company, running a manufacturing facility, or operating a pharmaceutical firm, the core health of your organization’s network is of pivotal importance in maintaining business operations. Managing network maintenance proactively goes a long way in reducing unnecessary maintenance.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

97% of business owners say that online business reputation management is important. Let’s explore the breadth of your digital footprint and help you establish a framework for managing your reputation online. Online or digital reputation management is the act of influencing how people perceive your company or brand online.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

97% of business owners say that online business reputation management is important. Let’s explore the breadth of your digital footprint and help you establish a framework for managing your reputation online. Online or digital reputation management is the act of influencing how people perceive your company or brand online.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Specifically, they should know about, and help with: Asking and answering the 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators Knowing when and how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? , Then, a month later, the product is still 90% done. And six weeks later – 90% again!

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

by Saqib Ayaz, co-founder of Hire an Assistant. A virtual assistant is a self-employed person who is being hired on contractual basis for as long as the client needs his/ her services. Virtual Assistants are being increasingly hired by a number of people and businesses some of which are: Entrepreneurs. Virtual Specialist.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer? office, right in the heart of MIT.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Hiring a reputation management agency is a major step in growing your business. First of all, it means that you actually have the funds to outsource your reputation management tasks. The post 3 Successful Strategies Used By a Reputable Reputation Management Agency appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The continuing tech boom has resulted in strong competition for top engineering talent, resulting in a subsequent upward surge in salary scales as well. 2012 has proved to be a great year for developers – at least as far as financial compensation goes. But how much has it grown? Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. .&# I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. Context here.)

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. So to everyone at WP Engine, let me repeat the message from one year ago: Look what we did ! We just announced a few more things. Period, full-stop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Reputation management is the practice of actively influencing what people think of your brand and what they see others saying about your company when they look online. Start with an aggressive reputation management strategy for personal and business growth. There are a few ways you can manage this. Conclusion.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. Finally, what’s your approach to team structure and management?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 25, 2019

As an engineering firm, your reputation is everything, but at the end of the day, you’ll only ever be as good as the quality of your staff. You need talent to build a great reputation, and you need a solid reputation to get the engineers at the top of their game onto your payroll. You can’t have one without the other.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Many companies experience the dilemma of trying to increase revenue while facing engineering costs. One solution is to outsource your engineering services. Engineers are an important part of the success of your business. Here are the other benefits of outsourcing engineering services: Hire Talented Civil Engineers.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

’’ Diversity hiring is not about ticking boxes in checklists or having all groups represented whatever the definition might be across different geographies around the world. So, who benefits the most from work from home jobs and diversity hiring programs? Work from home jobs & Hiring Neurodiverse People.

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Transformify

MAY 15, 2018

Cross Border Talents is hiring a Software Configuration Engineer to join one of our Client's in Veldhoven, Netherlands Do you want to define and manage our configuration baselines to enable efficient test bench & proto integration / customer upgrades and meet our Client's quality standards?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

By Russell Harley, veteran project manager and Director at PMO. Just like many other areas of project management, they have their benefits and their challenges. If a software engineer, we will call him “Neo”, is needed on a project, then IT is asked if Neo can be assigned to the project.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. One of the biggest mistakes I see early-stage startups making is hiring “seasoned&# sales professionals or hiring people too senior, too early.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. You hire great people. You motivate, cajole, reassign tasks, hire, fire and push the organization forward. And then there’s product management. Engineering?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2020

You must also routinely review your data security plan as you hire more employees and create more departments. Embrace Managed IT Services. A reported 27% of data breaches are caused by human error, as an internal mistake could lead to a ransomware attack or social engineering scam. Train Your Team. Avoid public Wi-Fi.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. It fine-tunes the processes needed to properly manage these teams and execute projects. Manage Agency Growth to Expand at a Proper Rate.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

by Felix Winstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative. As a new entrepreneur or business owner, the most important thing you will do is hire talent. Hiring = Sales. Robert Metcalfe, co-founder and CEO of 3Com, says you need to think about it as “recruiting, not hiring”. What does the right hire look like?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

In order to build a successful Shopify store, many users may choose to hire someone with expertise in these areas. The Shopify Experts marketplace operates with the Shopify Partner program — the actual site and community management system. The program will provide you with a dashboard for managing and building client sites.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2020

Remote workers are hired regardless of their location (e.g., However, setting up and managing one entails some challenges. In addressing these challenges, it’s important to consider the basic points of finding the right people, using suitable software tools, and effective management. The Need for a Harmonious Work Culture.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

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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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 26, 2021

So after recently revisiting the question about being a product manager without an engineering background , it was delightful to read feedback from two friends. First the original post ODE TO A NON-TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER. PS: Obligatory plug that we’re hiring great PMs at Digit :)”. Be curious. Align success.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

The CFO asked me to stay as one of the engineering directors came in for a meeting. The director had complained to his boss, the VP of Engineering, who admitted his hands were tied, as this was a “facilities matter,” and the VP of facilities reported to the CFO. The company is still one of the hottest places to work in tech.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. This may sound shocking, but sales people are different than engineers and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 9, 2014

Early Google engineer and now Twitter Ads engineering manager Jeremy Ginsberg follows up on my New Grad Career Advice with some of his own thoughts. tldr: CS Degree Won’t Make You A Great Engineer, Your First Job Will. You’ll learn how to move fast, but it’s easy to pick up bad engineering habits.

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