Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. He said to me (only 9 years ago), “I hope you’re not just hiring her because she’s a woman.” (I

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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. Stop Using Generic Job Descriptions. Stop Using Generic Job Descriptions.

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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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Rembrandt Communications

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Well, after receiving numerous messages from a content/SEO/PR/marketing firm via various mediums over the course of a few weeks, you finally decide to hire them to help you. Recently, a new client came to me asking about their website and SEO content. They hired a company a few months ago but hadn’t seen any results.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2020

Jeannette Collazo, CEO of Lurdez Consulting Group , which offers IT project management advisory and services. Her belief in the need for educating upcoming IT project managers in better relational skills led to her writing of T.E.A.M.: The IT Project Manager’s Secret Decoder for Increasing Relational Excellence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2017

Of course, it’s no surprise that most entrepreneurs don’t have a background in hiring teams, and don’t have a budget for training or human resource consultants. He comments that in spite of the digital revolution, the hiring process hasn’t changed from its low priority, last minute, subjective roots.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

The management team has to have a bias toward making decisions. In my mind the sign of a great entrepreneur is the one that spots the 30% scenario quickly and adjusts but doesn’t get gun shy about rapid decision-making in the future. There is an old management adage that says, “Hire slowly, fire fast.” Hire Slowly?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2024

It was our first time outside of DMs, emails, texts, and we learned a lot more about one another. There are some real gems about technology careers, entrepreneurship, and so on. For example, I believe it’s really important to know what you’re optimizing for when thinking about the next phase of your growth.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

The Benefits of Hiring A Virtual Assistant For Your Business Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Rob Levin In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Rob Levin. He is also the managing member of the Oasis Strategy Group and CEO of RSL Media.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In my two previous installments, I talked about the changing dynamics in many tech-centric cities. It wasn’t long ago that it made sense for companies, and especially Silicon Valley companies, to hire locally and have everyone working from one central location. The Big Question: Why isn’t every company distributed today?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

This will be the team who hires the most talented people, channels them in the most productive configuration and gets the most output from their unique capabilities. Only hire A players. B players tend to have slightly more self-confidence issues so they tend to hire people slightly worse than themselves – thus C teams.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2019

Hiring new talent is an inevitable and critical part of starting your own business, and it’s an exciting indication that your original idea has finally found its footing— now it just needs the manpower. Unfortunately, many employers underestimate the hiring process and make the mistake of hiring the wrong kind of people.

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David Teten

JANUARY 15, 2019

Who should you hire: the superstar with great skills who feels like a poor fit with the culture, or the person with weaker skills but who fits in culturally? Even though I believe in hiring the stranger , cultural fit really matters. Every hire shapes future culture; the new person might be an infusion of useful straight talk.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Almost all businesses today, regardless of size or industry, are using offshore development to build and enhance their own software. The most significant advantages of offshore development, such as lower costs, access to a larger pool of qualified development companies, resource management, flexibility, etc., Worldwide talent hiring.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2017

Here at Palo Alto Software , we take hiring pretty seriously. I should know—we just wrapped up a lengthy hiring process within the marketing department. After months of searching, dozens of interviews, and sifting through countless resumes, we finally hired a new managing editor for Bplans.

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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. Let us discuss some of the pitfalls in using matrix teams on projects. The company decided there was enough work to justify hiring Neo, our software engineer.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Stories about companies with lots of ping pong tables, free yoga classes, gourmet chefs—it’s starting to feel like the TV series “Silicon Valley” is a little too much like the real-life Silicon Valley. First, take a few minutes to jump on Glassdoor and find out what people who work in the position you’re hiring for complain about.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The first part was railing against the consequences of regulatory capture on innovation and a second part, about the consequences of premature government regulation of AI and why the incumbents are all for it. These are the examples Bill Gurley were talking about. There’s nothing magical about dealing with regulated markets.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2014

It could be time to hire some help. If you own your own business and find that you simply don’t have enough time on your hands to be able to do all the things you need to do, you may be asking yourself should you hire an employee? . Disadvantages of hiring a new employee: An employee costs you money. Can you manage people?

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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In many ways, getting an e-commerce company off of the ground is easier than a standard business; depending on your business model, you may not have to keep as much physical inventory, hire as many workers or deal with as many tax considerations. Leave us a comment and let us know about your biggest startup struggles.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This way, management can review calls made by these agents. You can learn more here about how call recording software can help a startup. Help desk software is a tool to help you manage support requests and improve customer satisfaction. A knowledge base is a database of information about your company and its products.

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Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

Academic snobs such as myself often place a lot of value on hard skills when hiring. While most people in managerial positions agree with this approach at a hiring moment, there are often different perspectives when it comes to a potential firing moment. I recently had an interesting discussion with a friend about this.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 18, 2016

Each person we hire contributes to not only the development of the product, but also to the productivity of the team and overall company culture. When we make a bad hiring decision, we not only affect the product, but we also affect the team, the company’s culture, and the potential success of the business.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Let us tell you what conversation intelligence is and how it can help your startup. It also allows businesses to create call playlists to accelerate new hires’ sales training and ramp-up process. Sales Data Management. You can use these call playlists for training new hires. Wondering how? Decrease ramp-up time.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

More than a quarter of workers participate in independent contracting in some form, and about 10 percent of workers rely on it for their primary income. For small business owners, this adds up to many opportunities to round out staff, manage business surges, and leverage expertise for specific situations. Find the Right Resource.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. However, if you do manage to find success, the rewards can be significant. Thanks to Christian Piller, Pollen Returns ! #2-

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Onboarding a new remote developer is arguably one of the most important things you can add to your core competencies if you want to assure your new hires’ success. Today, with COVID-19 making every new hire remote, excellence in onboarding has become even more crucial. First, let’s talk about the business context.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Widely, the blame as to what prompted the nosedive was being laid at the doorsteps of a new long-term growth strategy envisioned by the company’s top management— Infosys 3.0. One Infosysian, as the company’s employees are called in India’s tech circles, however pointed us someplace beyond all these voices. And he has a view about this.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

To be fair, many businesses had distributed teams even before COVID-19 blindsided us. Often, managers worry that their out-of-sight teams are not sincere about their working hours. Daily huddles are mostly about work. They also complain about managers favoring in-office staff, even if they are less competent.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

We write often about ways small business can reduce expense, increase productivity, and operate more efficiently through a lean approach to marketing, technology, and operations. Today I want to write briefly about a strategy we have used to very good effect when hiring new workers: outsource. Reduce, reduce, reduce.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 16, 2018

Healthcare organizations are also reaping the benefits with savings of 20-30% on the hiring process, as well as the ability to search for qualified nurses based on specific criteria and ratings. We had an opportunity to interview Kloss and asked about her story, how she started her business and the future of SnapNurse.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Large businesses typically have strong HR departments to help them navigate the hiring process. For that reason, many small business owners find themselves wearing the HR hat and trying to navigate the difficult task of finding and hiring the right team members. Why is hiring the right candidates so difficult? But not so fast.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Last week I had a chance to interview Kyle Stalzer, President at Tackk (a portfolio company of my firm, ff Venture Capital ), about an issue that’s top of mind for a lot of our companies: How to Recruit an A-Quality Designer for Your Company. Don’t just hire the first promising candidate. Customer satisfaction is important.

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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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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Adriana Rozo-Angulo is an expert resource in data and analytics, using software and systems to help managers keep track of time and resources, and using blended approaches to project management. We interviewed Adriana to get more insights into her process management expertise and her exciting entrepreneurial journey….

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