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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Tech companies need advertising, marketing, public relations, and technical sales professionals. Calgary employers found software developer and engineer as the most in demand. Websites such as 604jobs.ca

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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

When I told her they not only didn’t want it back, but were trying to see if they could give me more for my next company, she paused for a long while and then said in a very Russian accent, “Only in America are the streets paved with gold.” Wasn’t something fundamentally wrong with the way everyone organizes and manages startups?

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Choosing Bad Competition

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurs build great companies, but after those companies become established and those entrepreneurs are no longer driving them forward, the leaders who rise and succeed at those companies are more likely to be managers and caretakers who achieved their position executing the status quo. Success imprints more strongly than failure.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. 1 – Medical Device Sales. As a sales representative I noticed that the promotional efforts for Plastic Surgeons were held by a few large firms that overcharged.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Prasanna Krishnamoorthy, Managing Partner, Upekkha Value SaaS Accelerator, said, “We are the first fund which combines an Angel List rolling fund structure for making LP access widely available, while using the variable VC model of giving founders the option to buy back their equity at a later stage, ensuring founder optionality.

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Hire a Recruiter.Now

Seeing Both Sides

The unemployment rate in America is hovering around 9%. But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. Senior executives have never been harder to secure. Immediately. 2) Hiring Inexperience.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. There is a huge demand for programmers in America – good and bad. If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none.