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4 Essential Hires If You’re Starting a Business in 2020

Up and Running

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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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

Faster networks meant people would be able to access information anytime, anywhere, on any device. From the day I started till very recently (aka December 31, 2012), I can literally count the days when I have slept solid eight hours. None of them were hired by me, and instead they were picked up through a peer-review-hire process.

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