Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This reduces the cost of customer acquisition, allows easy upgrades for service and new features, and improves customer loyalty in the face of new competitors in the market. Minimize permanent hiring and customized operational facilities. Prioritize mergers and acquisitions early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It is harder to diversify if your first few hires are homogenous, so branch out beyond your typical hiring pool to seek out diversity of all types —race, gender, culture, and education. When you think you’ve found the right hire, do your due diligence to ensure it’s a two-way fit. Look to organizations like i.c.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Focus on talent and people growth.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

There are many benefits of selling your startup through a mergers and acquisitions advisor. When selling your startup with a mergers and acquisitions advisor, it’s essential to identify the key employees who have made the most valuable contributions to the business. Hiring a Mergers and Acquisitions advisor.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

Different ways of working are better suited to different industries and business sizes, so it’s crucial to consider these sorts of things before you begin hiring or go to market. Consider Acquisition as a Means of Growth. Another strategy that a smaller business can use during boom periods of business is acquisition.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 23, 2023

Hire Only the Best Employee Fits Another major expense your lean startup will have to carefully manage is labor. It’s tempting to hire people based on experience, since experiences correlate with both knowledge and better performance. Instead, consider hiring based on talent. Choose your acquisitions carefully.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

You may be the main problem, insisting on making every decision, and hiring cheap helpers rather than help. Yet I still see expense budgets based on traditional channels, with no strict metrics on cost of customer acquisition by channel, or lifetime customer value. Inadequate focus on hiring and people development.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

Leasing and acquisition are subjects that every business has to deal with eventually. When it comes to where you get your equipment from, you have two main choices: leasing and acquisition. In layman’s terms, leasing is like renting a house and acquisition is like buying one. Acquisition.

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Transformify

JANUARY 7, 2019

Add to that the uncertainty surrounding BREXIT and the changed visa rules in the US that push the employers to hire remote workers. Hiring freelancers overseas as remote workers allows companies to tap into a global talent pool and have top talent without breaking the bank. are protesting demanding that Uber, Deliveroo, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2018

It’s relevant because you hired each of your employees for a reason – skills, experience, personality, work ethic. Of course, there are other great ways to hire the right people , too. And that’s what you’re trying to do: hire the right people for your business. And they value you as a boss. Why is this relevant?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 2, 2021

Everyone knows the repercussions of one bad hire in bringing about severe damage to your team and brand as a whole. But, for a budding organization, you wonder if it is the right time to hire an HR professional? Human resource consultants reduce the costs of hiring individual employees. Cost-Effectiveness.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Hiring someone who will be “highly admired” in the workplace is the ultimate goal when filling any type of position. In a 2015 small business survey, 42% of small business owners identified hiring new talent as their biggest challenge. The team of people hired will become brand ambassadors. Rock Star Recruitment.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Your human resource activities can be outsourced to: Independent HR consultants are professionals who can assist you with hiring, HR policies, and other decision-making. Finding and hiring new talent is one of the most important tasks for any HR department. To Whom Can You Outsource HR Tasks? Shortlisted candidates are interviewed.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At first many start-ups hire a lobbying firm. Larger companies hiring a Chief of Staff often look for someone who has an MBA, experience with one of the big consulting firms, or experience doing the job already. They can vote to hire and fire the CEO. A Board of Directors has a formal and legal role.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2020

It may be difficult for businesses to even think about potential hires at a time like this , but developing a strategy for retaining and attracting top talent will put them in the driver’s seat when things turn for the better. . These days, “recruitment” is only one part of the talent acquisition process. . Get creative here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Focus on talent and people growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2019

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business. Marty Zwilling.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. Over time as these organizations got large, they built process. In government agencies process versus product has gone further.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2021

The post Today’s Hiring Game: How Degrees, Benefits, Diversity Come Into Play appeared first on Young Upstarts. Skills can be taught, but attitude is something that resides in a candidate’s psychological makeup and is much harder to affect through training.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting. Today’s trend of acqui-hires can result in some dissatisfied technical teams post acquisition. Last year Facebook opened a temporary office in Vancouver to train newly hired developers while they wait for U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

When it’s time to hire a VP of Sales, there are a few common attributes you’re probably quick to look for. But how much are you considering factors like a new hire’s existing network? Of course, the reality is that a lot of this starts with who you hire. Gain an Untapped Network.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

They want to snowball their customer acquisition, attracting thousands of new people to the brand, and reach diverse new audiences in new locations. You can hire more salespeople and practice social selling. . Growth is all about customer acquisition – the process of attracting new people to the brand. . Or is it? .

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2021

How can you be sure the remote salesperson you hire will actually be selling while working from home? The post Don’t Hire A Remote Salesperson Until You’re Sure They Have This (Non-Negotiable) Quality appeared first on Young Upstarts. Dr. Chris Croner says you have to test them for drive.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

billion is attributed to the pending Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Besides Activision Blizzard, the big deals included Take-Two’s purchase of Zynga, Sony’s acquisition of Bungie, and the ESL and FaceIt acquisition by Savvy Games Group Mobile was the most active segment with 47 deals. as they reached 28.1

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

This acquisition is a long story, but if you have a few minutes let me tell you the best parts. If you’re interested you can read about one of my acquisitions from a few years back in a post titled The Inside Story of a Small Software Acquisition. My Background. The site was once great; marketed by a high-end NYC PR firm.

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VC Cafe

MAY 17, 2023

billion acquisition by Google for Waze and $900M Moovit acquisition by Intel) Uri has also been involved in various startups, especially on the consumer front, as an angel investor. Uri is a mentor in the program (where also my co-founder at Remagine Ventures and I met) and apart from his impressive track record as an entrepreneur ($1.4

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View from Seed

JUNE 5, 2018

Last week, we hosted our very first portfolio-only Hiring Bootcamp in NYC, led by NextView’s talent advisor Kristen Caldwell. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages. Tracking your recruiting process provides you insights around the two most important aspects of hiring: Conversion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2017

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

A lot of startups fail within the first few months due to some commonly acknowledged culprits – picking a bad time to scale, running out of operating capital, lack of a steady customer base, high customer acquisition cost, and low to nonexistent repeat business. If the answer is “no”, why hire him/her at all?

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2021

By developing a clear hiring process and leveraging the right tools, businesses can create winning teams and improve talent acquisition.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

By Marina Djordjevic, Director of Talent Acquisition at Idean. If you’re the hiring manager for your company, here are five tips that can help you find the right people — and do your job more successfully: 1. Keep in mind that you’re hiring coworkers and acting as company spokesperson. Is it easy for users (i.e.,

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View from Seed

APRIL 26, 2018

At the seed stage, hiring great people is one of the most important things to get right. I saw this first-hand at Blue Apron — I had to hire 30+ people across a ton of different functions in just under two years. If you have to hire several people this year, you won’t want to miss this session.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 28, 2014

That’s why we’ve seen example after example of “acqui-hires” in the past few years as well as some very large acquisitions where a big driver was the talent behind a start-up (e.g. However, only a few big companies have truly figured out how to keep founders around after the acquisition. Nest, Beats).

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