YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2016

If you make common mistakes , like not hiring the right people, you’re heading for trouble. If, as Peter Drucker, the father of Management Science, pointed out, the purpose of a business is to acquire and keep a customer, your first order of business should be to hire the right people. Cost of Hiring Bad Employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. The challenge is to avoid the bad risks, while actively seeking and managing the smart risks. Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing.

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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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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. So, who benefits the most from work from home jobs and diversity hiring programs?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2017

I was reading law and I managed to get a role as a content marketer at a local ecommerce startup called iPrice. You can edit your profile to make it impeccable and strike a direct conversation with the hiring manager. It is invaluable as it shows your hiring manager your way of thinking. Prepare the 3 necessities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When McDonald’s was still a small company, Ray Kroc, the CEO, had a penchant for asking a store manager to help him clean up trash in their parking lot. Then it extends to the hiring process. The rest is history. Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay grounded in reality.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Outside professionals are always available, but they may have their own agenda, such as building a career, making money quickly, or managing up the stock price for a quick exit. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. The operations superstar.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Leading and managing people amid uncertainty, high degrees of change, and making decisions remain my day-to-day functions. Unless you can translate how your skills provide commercial value, you won’t get hired. Read the rest of Laura’s blogs at [link] You will get asked a question like this.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In small businesses , owners and managers often assume multiple roles. In larger corporations , there are many types of managers and directors serving at various levels of the company, each with their own duties, responsibilities and accountabilities. Who Is the Managing Director and What Are the Duties and Responsibilities?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

What few people know is that Buffett is not just a savvy investor but a great manager and business leader. Find a Manager with the Right Qualities. Find a Manager with the Right Qualities. Buffett looks for managers and leaders with integrity, intelligence, and a passion for the business. Motivate Your Workforce.

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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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Up and Running

JULY 27, 2020

But, you can’t just rest on your laurels – you need to put that budget and forecast to work for your business. In fact, you can use your financial forecast to actively manage your business and improve your chances of success and growth. Why is cash flow management important? Cash flow management example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2020

When McDonald’s was still a small company, Ray Kroc, the CEO, had a penchant for asking a store manager to help him clean up trash in their parking lot. Then it extends to the hiring process. The rest is history. Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay grounded in reality.

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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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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

An advisory board has no official role in managing – they can’t hire, fire, or order people to do things. Unfortunately several advisory boards have become moribund resting grounds for political apparatchiks.Today’s challenges demand the DOD’s advisory boards appoint the best and brightest regardless of party.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

If they or you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, it may be time for change or looking elsewhere. Neither partner needs to be managed. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Outside professionals are always available, but they may have their own agenda, such as building a career, making money quickly, or managing up the stock price for a quick exit. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. The operations superstar.

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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?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

So in terms of hiring, get people that can help you build the product faster… anything that minimizes the time between observing a need or a problem, and the execution or the fix for it.” Early hires are super important: check for skills, motivation and cultural fit. Remember that speed is the secret weapon of startups.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

One important thing to remember from the earliest days of your startup is that its success won’t rest solely on your own abilities. You’ll probably have limited resources —and you may have limited experience—which means it’s crucial to make each hire count. So, what do you need to consider when hiring? Cover all the bases.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

When Murthy had left in 2011 from his chairman position, Infosys stood head and shoulders above the rest as the bellwether Indian IT firm (it had since then been nudged out from that mantle by Tata Consultancy Services). But our managers didn’t get it. There were niggles, but nothing that needed a hospital visit. So what went wrong?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The last thing you need is to think you have all the hire facilities sorted for your event or construction site, only to be left worrying whether the company you have chosen is reliable and up to the job. The good news is that this need not be a problem if you choose an experienced hire facilities company. What facilities do I need?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

Investors bet that by offering prospective hires a stake in the company’s future growth- with a visible time horizon of a payoff – employees would act more like owners and work harder– and that would align employee interests with the investor interests. That made sense. See the HBR story here.). Today, that’s not true.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 7, 2013

This week, I’ll discuss the second-choice alternative: how to hire an outsourced designer for your company. There are many ways to go about finding a developer (for the rest of this post “developer” will be used generically in reference to any of the aforementioned web professionals). Don’t just hire the first promising candidate.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Why should you hire a moving service to relocate your office? While one may think that all employees can collectively put in a hand and handle office moving together – it can be expected that at least one-third of your employees would call in sick and the rest would suddenly develop back problems.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. While interviewing such a wide cross section of people, I realized that I had a golden opportunity to test some of the prevalent folk wisdom about hiring. As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2013

Jobs was an uncompromising believer in hiring the most talented team possible and believed equally in firing folks at will. But what about the rest of us? The business axiom of the moment is “hire slow, fire fast.” In other words, turn dictum on its silly head: hire fast and fire slow!

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

by Ryan Moore, Director of Client Management, Peak Sales Recruiting. When it’s time to hire a VP of Sales, there are a few common attributes you’re probably quick to look for. But how much are you considering factors like a new hire’s existing network? Gain an Untapped Network.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Often, managers worry that their out-of-sight teams are not sincere about their working hours. The funny thing is that 59% of remote managers are least concerned about their workers’ emotional well-being, which has a cascading effect on team morale. Employees, as well as managers, need to be trained to use these new technologies.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Diving into the financials, dealing with vendors, the hiring process, or a variety of other tasks—no one is passionate about every facet of business operations. In short, creating a business plan early on will make starting, managing, and growing your business easier. Be passionate about your business idea. That’s completely fine.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 8, 2013

1) Hiring decisions will make or break you, sometimes all at once: The axiom that great companies are built with A team players could not be more true. There are 2 dimensions to this that are worth highlighting, hiring the best people and then structuring them to succeed, which will be addressed in a later post.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2013

. Most business owners dread having to talk with and hire lawyers. In a minute, I’ll share tips on how your small business or startup can hire a good lawyer for your business. Here are my tips on how your small business or startup can hire a good lawyer without losing your shirt: 1. How to hire lawyers that add value.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Our skills and expertise go well beyond that, encompassing brand management, the art of persuasion, understanding nuanced audiences and channels, a genuine flair for language crafting and creative writing, and borderline-obsessive grammar knowledge.”. But when they do, it shows. Not speaking to your target audience. Work smarter, not harder.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2019

by Nik Williams, Managing Director of Shredall SDS Group. Shred or archive the rest. Managers should ask their staff to shred any documents they no longer use at the end of each week to ensure that workspaces remain organised and secure. Stress management starts with organisation,” Chris Robertson, Creditsafe’s UK CEO explains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2022

In every report, negativity is seen as an indictment of bad managers, but I believe it is also an indictment of employee whiners as well. If you as the founder, or other members your executive team are chronic complainers, the disease will spread rapidly through the rest of the organization. Use the hiring process effectively.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

B2B – cloud services, online meetings, virtual workforce management, collaboration tools. What are your “lifeboat choices” – what layoffs to make, renegotiate payables, rents, leases, how to trade off cash management versus revenue growth? Your CFO now becomes the head of cash management. Lessons Learned.

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