The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

Today we present Olga Camargo as part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series. Olga has a great story as CEO and Founder of SHENIX , a Chicago-based fintech app company focused on financial education and advisory services for Latinas. Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2010 Emerging Leaders Program Selection.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

Whether you’re building the next best home automation system, a revolutionary robotics product, or a new kind of software, the programming language you use to make it happen is the foundation of your work. This is one of the many challenges that you’ll have to take head-on as the founder of a tech startup. Source: Pexels.

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VC Cafe

MAY 17, 2023

But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains” Steve Jobs (from Chapter 8) I got to meet Uri Levine, the founder of Waze and Moovit, through his involvement in the Zell Entrepreneurship program at Reichman University. It starts from how founders pitch their startups.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder series , we sat down with award-winning entrepreneur Elizabeth Colón. The organization also offers leadership training, speaking opportunities and savings through our partner programs that will more than pay for a member’s participation each year. to advocate for the 11.6 Tech development?

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2016

Ask a founder of a growing startup what they need most, and you’ll often get an answer along the lines of, “We need great people, and we need them fast.”. Founders need to make sure the quality of the startup’s offerings remains high and provide adequate sales and service support for prospective customers and new users.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2020

Here’s another from The Startup Magazine Female Founder Series. Jeannette has more than 25 years of experience successfully leading IT programs for Fortune 500 companies. I have extremely high standards and hiring a younger crowd was a bit more challenging than expected. We interviewed Ms. Raising capital?

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Adriana Rozo-Angulo, founder of international consulting firm MAS Connections and author of The Buoyant Business: How Simplicity Can Keep Organizations Afloat in a Stormy Economy. Adriana Rozo-Angulo, President & Co-Founder, MAS Connections.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It might seem easier to put off thinking about your first essential new hires. Try to do it all and you’ll spend a lot of time learning new skills (that you’ll eventually hire for) when you should be focusing on growing your business. Hire someone who understands Generation Z (or your target demographic). A marketing maven.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 27, 2010

I was just interviewed by Frank Peters - Tony Karrer and the Founder-Developer Gap. I received a follow-up question from an early-stage startup about the Founder Developer Gap that I’ve described before and that was part of the interview with Frank. Many founders are not equipped to evaluate the capabilities of a developer.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

Startup hubs like Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore offered access to venture capital and vibrant start ecosystems thus attracting the brightest founders. Out of a sudden, both startup founders and investors started asking themselves ‘’ What is our remote strategy?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. For eight years, our flagship conference has focused on sharing stories and lessons of putting Lean Startup’s entrepreneurial methodology into practice. 31 ( limited to the first 200 Gold Passholders.) Sign up for free here.

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

Vivek Ravisankar is the co-founder of Y Combinator alumnus, HackerRank , a platform for coding contests used by programmers to hone their skills and a tool for companies to streamline their own recruiting process. The hiring process for technical talent is broken. If they don’t, it’s a hire. Learn to look past a resume.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

But when it comes to core technical skills, more and more entrepreneurs are opting to partner with technical co-founders rather than hiring someone for an in-house position. I really believe that what’s most important for a founder is the ability to have a vision for the company, make sales and hire well.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

While you are working away on your business plan, looking for ways to raise capital, finding the right people to hire, etc., But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Things snowballed from there.”.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In navigating the transition from founder-led sales to a structured approach, the pivotal question arises: when to hire a Sales Development Representative (SDR) or an Account Executive (AE) ? If there are inbound leads, the situation is different; hiring an AE might be suitable if these leads align with the ideal customer profile.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2020

by Roland Polzin , MBA and Co-founder of Wing AI. They process language based on predefined patterns and return results based on what humans have already programmed them for. Alternatively, individual VA contractors can be hired for a monthly salary, or workers for short gigs can be found via Fiverr or TaskRabbit.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

In order to find out, I asked a panel of 12 successful founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What are the pros/cons of hiring an agency to do development work, vs. having all your technical talent in house? If it’s a one-time project with a completion date, hiring an agency is a good way to go.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

” — Phil Norton, Founder of Leave Dates In today’s digital age, software subscriptions have become integral to business operations. ” — Carl Jenson, Founder of Compare Bank. Carl Jenson, the Founder of Compare Bank, emphasises the importance of cutting meeting expenses by adopting virtual meeting solutions.

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View from Seed

APRIL 5, 2016

Rachael is enrolled at the Startup Institute , an eight-week program that teaches its pupils the nuances of web development, web design, technical marketing, or sales and account management. Founders’ stories can be truly heroic, but inspiring stories don’t start and end with them. She is looking for more than that. .

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Since then, over 400 Insight alumni have been hired as data scientists or data engineers at top tier companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Airbnb, and Google. Keep in mind, I won’t share all of Insight’s secret sauce, but will hopefully provide enough high level lessons and principles that you can apply to your own hiring process.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. He said to me (only 9 years ago), “I hope you’re not just hiring her because she’s a woman.” (I He launched our scout program as an example. So why now?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2017

If the answer is no to either of those questions, then the organization needs to consider hiring someone to perform the task or outsourcing the task. Over the years, I have noticed a strong correlation with what a person does well with what they enjoy doing, with what tasks are completed on time; with the opposite also being true.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

But when it comes to core technical skills, more and more entrepreneurs are opting to partner with technical co-founders rather than hiring someone for an in-house position. You Need To Know Tech Basics I really believe that what’s most important for a founder is the ability to have a vision for the company, make sales and hire well.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

The only thing without a doubt that holds true for everyone learning to program is that you must deeply want to learn. Sure, you may walk away with a better familiarity with coding syntax and general programming concepts, but that's a lot different than learning to become a programmer. Need to learn. I hope you enjoy it.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He’s founder and CEO of Greenhouse , a ‘hiring operating system’ for companies which spans recruiting and onboarding tools for enterprises and SMEs. Hunter Walk: Before we dive into your company Greenhouse , give me one story from your childhood that foretold you were going to end up a startup founder.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

User experience research or UX research, shouldn’t be limited to A/B testing programs only. As Des Traynor , co-founder of Intercom put it in the Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done book : Des Traynor: Some products are better defined by the job they do than the customers they serve. Do User Experience Research. Behavioral segments.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Nothing that I programmed ever compiled perfectly the first time. Despite being decades into coding, most developers still debug with “printf” statements, essentially adding code to generate specific output while the program is executing. The output generated can then be used to help diagnose issues within the program.

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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. It starts with the hiring process. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. The Background.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

It is all about how you hire the best and the amazing impact doing so will have on your culture. You must test those that you want to hire. At the time I applied, Wharton’s MBA program was ranked #1 in the country for the prior six years. We’ve followed this lesson since the beginning of data.world?—?and The answer to this?

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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. It starts with the hiring process. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. The Background.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, February 22, 2009 Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Of course, what I really mean is: let them teach themselves. See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

by Sanjoe Jose, CEO and Co-founder of Talview. According to Navitas Ventures’ survey on digital transformation in higher education , which included students, edtech founders, and university leaders, the primary goal of digital transformation is improving student experience. AI-powered exam proctoring allows for remote programs.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2020

Here’s more from The Startup Magazine Founder Interview series. We interviewed Bill Walsh, CEO/Founder of Business Coaching / Venture Capital firm Powerteam International. It is always best to hire a specialist than hire a generalist if you need specific help. Hire new creatives. Would mentors be helpful?

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 19, 2019

Founders have many things to think about and decisions to make, most of which need to be made on a dime. In some cases, one need not hire or contract human help but rather the assistance of various digital programs. Launching a startup is not easy – at any phase.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

You’ll need the EIN to pay taxes for your business, apply for licenses and permits, open a bank account, and hire and pay employees. Develop a founders agreement. A founders’ agreement is a legal contract defining and governing the relationship between cofounders. Also, you can invest in business accounting software.

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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. The experience of the agency’s initial founders likely dictates early business domains to target.

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