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Don’t hire people you know!

David Teten

Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them. Those are good reasons to be friends, but poor reasons to hire someone. When you want to hire someone, you should strictly focus on hiring the best possible person for the open job.

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Don’t hire people you know!

David Teten

Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them. Those are good reasons to be friends, but poor reasons to hire someone. When you want to hire someone, you should strictly focus on hiring the best possible person for the open job.

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4 Tips To Build A Deep Virtual Bench Of Talent

YoungUpstarts

days and data from DHI Hiring Indicators shows that the average job opening remained unfilled for 28.1 days in 2001-2003. Since implementing artificial intelligence into their recruiting process, Unilever saw the average time to hire an entry level candidate dramatically reduced from four months to four weeks.

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Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

Both Sides of the Table

Ryan was the most talented technologist we had hired at BuildOnline. We hired Ryan at a really young age and without a tremendous amount of prior experience. We had a strategy of hiring people really young because we couldn’t afford to hire too many senior people. Ryan is now in his 30’s (old fart).

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6 Signs That Your Startup Could Be The Next Exception

Startup Professionals Musings

Larry is the primary thinker about the company’s future direction, and still weighs in heavily on key hiring decisions. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5 Here are some lessons from the book that all entrepreneurs should wish they could emulate: Independently outstanding, but complementary founders. Unique business tactics.

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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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6 Time-Saving Social Media Tools For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Canva offers a way to crank out solid images without the time and budget costs of scheduling lengthy training sessions or hiring designers. Since 2003, Chris Makara has developed a broad digital marketing background with a focus on SEO, Social Media, Automation and Analytics. It’s not just a pipe dream after all.