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Female Founder Interview – Claudia Freed, CEO of Non-Profit EALgreen

The Startup Magazine

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Claudia Freed, CEO of the Wheaton Illinois-based nonprofit EALgreen. As an immigrant student from Argentina, Ms. Remember that your character will transcend every business decision you make, hire you make, and deal you win or lose. Getting visibility?

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

We’d never hired anyone. See Also: How Traveling Helped Me Prepare for Startup Life. Six months before starting our business, my wife and I moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina with no solid plans, no place to live, and no jobs. Your job is to get good at finding and hiring people smarter than you.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a pure startup and haven’t raised any money – you might change the life of every person you hire. You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. We made some changes and things are going better.

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One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy

ReadWriteStart

At any startup, the first hurdle is the lack of resources – lack of funds, lack of manpower, lack of time. See also Are Crowdsourcing And Outsourcing No-Nos For Startups? ). As a one-man founder bootstrapping the business, this allowed me to hire a team for much less money. Plus, with India being 2.5

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Four Things To Consider When Taking Your Startup Global

YoungUpstarts

Your startup is growing at a healthy pace and you’ve done pretty well in your domestic market. When you’re running a startup with big ambitions but limited resources, you can’t afford a single misstep. If you’re wondering how to take your startup global, here’s some advice: 1. Hire strategically.

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How Traveling Helped Me Prepare for Startup Life

Up and Running

As it turns out, this is very similar to the experience of working at or founding a startup company. Often times you don’t have any idea what you’ll be doing from one day to the next, and how you learn to react to the constant stream of new information can be the key to success, or at least enjoying your time at a startup. No one can.

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Basic Accounting And Legal Aspects That Every Business Owner Should Know

YoungUpstarts

Lastly, when we hire our first employees, we should always do it with the appropriate documentation, in which there should not lack the specification that everything they create while working for us, on the level of intellectual property, belongs to the company.

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