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Scaling from maker to manager

Version One Ventures

But as the start-up scales and you hire employees, your day-to-day is taken over by more managerial tasks, like hiring and managing people, running company meetings, etc. It’s unusual to hire a non-founder CEO early in a start-up’s life because it will most likely fail. There’s typically little choice for a founder CEO.

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Honor Technology Closes $370 Million in Financing, Plans to Triple its Engineering and Product…

Austin Startup

The funding will be used to further invest in hiring remote workers, with an emphasis on the greater Austin and San Francisco areas due to Honor’s existing office footprints, and to expand Honor’s groundbreaking operations and technology capabilities across the Home Instead network, which has three offices in the greater Austin area.

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[Infographic] What Does It Cost To Run A Startup?

YoungUpstarts

That’s great, but do you know how much it will cost to hire the talent that would make take your idea from concept all the way to a market-ready product? Planning to start your own technology startup? And even if you do, did you know that where you’re based also matters when it comes to doing up the numbers?

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What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

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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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

He said to me (only 9 years ago), “I hope you’re not just hiring her because she’s a woman.” (I Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc. I remember years ago trying to recruit Kara. It took me three years to persuade her to join. And all the platform stuff.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

Because Bird was first to market, extremely innovative, quick to hire talented leadership and an experienced founder it was able to raise $125 million in an extraordinarily short period of time. Local politicians wanting to see local job creation rather than jobs at tech firms all migrating to San Francisco should be heartened.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. After the success of Smart Bear, I should be setting my sights on something big, not this.

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