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Hiring a Freelancer? Here’s What That Means for Your Taxes

Up and Running

And with the rise in remote work during the pandemic, a shift in how businesses think about their employees and hiring practices, and the growing number of people pursuing business ventures online, it will likely keep growing. In 2008, 2.6 In many ways, this trend was born out of necessity during the Great Recession.

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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. 2] Peter V.

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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. 2] Peter V.

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Quattro Development Co-Founders Share Tips for Overcoming Mishaps in Real Estate Development

The Startup Magazine

After founding their real estate development firm during the Great Recession in 2008, the duo received a crash course in perseverance. The co-founders experienced initial hiccups in their internal hiring processes, too. We’ve had mixed bags with hiring people that were somewhat related to us, friends or family,” Walters adds.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

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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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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9 Keys To Overcoming The Fear Of Change In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Brands book is based on the implementation of nine principles of innovation originally developed by Google way back in 2008 by Marissa Mayer. This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. Set your default to sharing rather than proprietary.