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The Best Small Business Tools of 2013

Up and Running

This is our list of favorite things from 2013. Some are truly “from 2013″ and were introduced this year, and some have been around for awhile but saw pretty significant updates in 2013. So without further ado… Palo Alto Software’s Best Small Business Tools of 2013. For Operations. For Marketing.

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Speaker Lineup for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Now’s a good time to remind you that many of our 2013 speakers are participating in free webcasts this fall—which include live Q&A with participants. There are some amazing efforts going on internally to simplify our system and modernize our stack, but hiring teams of developers for this effort is still something new to our organization.

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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. Jun 21, 2013. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Why any of this matters.

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The art of hiring a data scientist

Version One Ventures

Since then, over 400 Insight alumni have been hired as data scientists or data engineers at top tier companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Airbnb, and Google. Keep in mind, I won’t share all of Insight’s secret sauce, but will hopefully provide enough high level lessons and principles that you can apply to your own hiring process.

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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. This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on January 7, 2013. You must test those that you want to hire. When we got to our finalists after 5–8 interviews and everyone was ready to hire them, we would call them up?—?typically

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Paul Herdsman Of NICE Global: The Benefits Of Utilizing Nearshore Outsourcing For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Put simply, offshore outsourcing means hiring a company to perform a service from a different part of the world. Back in 2013, my own company was offshore outsourcing to four different countries: the Dominican Republic, Honduras, the Philippines, and India. What is the difference between offshoring and nearshoring?

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[Infographic] Small Business Concerns In 2013

YoungUpstarts

While many are generally optimistic about their own opportunities with nearly half of respondents expecting to see revenue growth this year, only 37-percent of them expect the economy to improve in 2013. Other key takeaways: 87-percent will not be hiring any employees this year. Top four concerns/obstacles to business growth in 2013?