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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10: The most proven way to hire well

Austin Startup

It is all about how you hire the best and the amazing impact doing so will have on your culture. You must test those that you want to hire. I didn’t know better at the time and they were much older and “experienced” than I was, so I let them run with that plan. But they were wrong 50% of the time, six months later.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012.

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How I Found a Great CTO

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Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. This time, I decided to handle the process myself. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #2: What’s in a name?

Austin Startup

My co-founders and I wanted a name that would reflect the incredible ambition of our mission: “to build the most meaningful, collaborative, and abundant data resource in the world”. We also thought lowercasing data.world would “understate” the amazing power of our platform, kind of a “humble” move on our part. 13, 2012?—?I

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- I credit my co-founder. I credit my co-founder Eric Frothingham with coming up with our name. Her picture is my office as an added reminder of the woman I consider our real founder.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

July 9, 2012 at 10:21 am by John Cook Leave a Comment. Voted “Next Tech Titan” at the 2012 GeekWire Startup Awards, Tableau Software is on a huge growth trajectory. 07/06/2012. Co-founder, National Editor. 07/04/2012. Co-founder, National Editor. 07/03/2012. . -->. 07/03/2012.