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How To Hire And Train A New Employee During The Summer (When Most People Are On Vacation)

YoungUpstarts

Recruiting and hiring employees is challenging, if only because the stakes for making the right choice are so high. Say you had to replace a worker who had been hired only recently, since they turned out to be a poor cultural fit. On top of the normal difficulties of the hiring process, HR also has to deal with its high seasonality.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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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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5 Ways to Use Tech to Improve Customer Satisfaction

Women Entrepreneurs Can

A business must be agile enough to incorporate both short-term & long-term changes, which can be achieved through year-round continuous surveys for real-time customer information. With the rise of technology, more and more entrepreneurs are adopting YouTube, webinars, and videos as their preferred mode of reaching out to customers.

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The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

The Five Whys for Start-Ups - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Root cause analysis and preventive maintenance are concepts we expect to see in a factory setting. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of the time, the experiments you run will have a zero percent conversion rate - meaning no customers were harmed during the making of this experiment. I would aim to get no more than 1o0 clicks per day - over the course of a week or two, youll get pretty good conversion data. Measure conversion rates. Expo SF (May.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres an excerpt: The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Every startup that achieves success eventually faces a critical moment — whether to speed up or slow down. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. This is the speed-up-or-slow-down moment.