Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

With proper awareness about the SaaS product development process, your costs can be managed better. In this blog, we are going to discuss some of the important practices to optimize product development and remove unnecessary startup expenses. Don’t hire full time, outsource your project.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. Skills might not be applicable to next project Employee turnover (loss of company-provided training and familiarity) 2.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

We asked 12 founders from the YEC to share with us when they knew it was time to hire a manager (or a few managers) to oversee the day-to-day activities of their business. See Also 11 Signs It’s Time to Get Rid of a Key Employee. When business development slows down. However, it’s hard to let go.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We hear all the time about the importance of hiring the right people and the expanding universe of advice can be overwhelming; hire slow and fire fast, only hire the “right&# candidate; ask probing questions; check all references; blah blah blah. So to start, here’s why hiring sucks: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

Today I want to write briefly about a strategy we have used to very good effect when hiring new workers: outsource. When we hear that word, we typically envision massive call centers or bucket shops filled with developers writing code half-way across the world. This does not just apply in the world of creative services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Aline Lerner's Blog. Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. While interviewing such a wide cross section of people, I realized that I had a golden opportunity to test some of the prevalent folk wisdom about hiring. making technical recruiting suck less. Jun 21, 2013. Why any of this matters.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

In addition to providing customer care and assistance, a virtual assistant may also develop web pages or compose blog entries, administer email newsletters, carry out sales and marketing chores, generate sales leads, and conduct a variety of other jobs. To begin drop-shipping, you must locate a supplier and develop a website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The ROI of Blogging: What the Groove Blog is Worth to Our Startup – crowdspring.co/YUXa2r. “the people you fire are more important to your [company''s] culture than the people you hire.” Stock option questions startup employees should ask | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1n8lUje. 1mVcFD5. .

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on. Start a blog. Branding/Copy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

3 Surprising Interview Questions You Should Ask Every Potential Employee – crowdspring.co/1s051td. Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. This Invaluable Lesson Will Keep You From Making Catastrophic Hiring Mistakes - crowdspring.co/XeV4JS. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Qualities Of Truly Great Employees | Business Insider by Dharmesh Shah - crowdspring.co/1h0QmFY. ask employees for feedback instead of waiting for them to come to you - crowdspring.co/1akonho. Perfect employees don’t exist. Hire for potential, says Jason Fried of 37signals - crowdspring.co/1aHHrTp. posts/2441.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Why You Really Should Move Quickly to Get Rid of Bad Hires - crowdspring.co/1hIeNIz. Great Culture: Smart Firing Is as Key as Smart Hiring - crowdspring.co/HECmEA. Here’s a Thought: Trust Your Employees and Throw Away the Clock | New Media Leaders – crowdspring.co/1cMRoBW. Here’s why – goo.gl/vA7zaO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Don’t hire them | Pando Daily – [link]. Vision | Jordan Cooper’s Blog – [link]. Some Quick Sage Advice for Young Employees Early in Their Careers – [link]. Losers exist. Losers exist.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 5 Customer Experience Metrics Every Successful Company Tracks | The Buffer blog – [link]. The Ultimate Guide to Customer Acquisition | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad | crowdSPRING Blog – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Why Humility is Essential for Every New Startup Hire – [link]. Inside Google’s Culture of Success and Employee Happiness | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. 13 Entrepreneur Blogs that Educate, Enlighten and Inspire | Mavenlink Blog – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2013

In the creative industries this is an everyday fact of business: overhead is constant, but revenue ebbs and flows throughout the year; some months there are so many clients and so much business that these service providers are forced to hire contractors or freelancers just to handle the extra workload.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

I'd been hobby-blogging as a side hustle for a while, and when my second child was on the way I realized that I wanted to spend the maximum time at home with my kids while still contributing to the family income. So I packed in my day job – as a software developer – and devoted more time monetizing the blog and website.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2011

The “benevolent” part means always putting the entity, the employees, and, most importantly, the customer, first. Whether you’re asking an employee to go the extra mile, asking a vendor for a discounted price, or pitching a business concept to an investor, you have to be willing to put yourself out there. Let “Mother” do the hiring.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

The company’s VP of Business Development & International Matt Cooper, with whom I spoke a few days before the IDCEE conference where he came to give a talk, is not really concerned with the rivals’ numbers though. We have 120 full-time employees and close to 350 freelancers working for oDesk directly,” Cooper said.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. What Company Culture IS and IS NOT | Rand’s Blog – [link]. The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. Valve’s employee handbook is a fascinating read.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Never Hire Job Hoppers. They Make Terrible Employees – [link]. Never Hire Job Hoppers. They Make Terrible Employees – [link]. 4 corporate blogging strategies – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 22, 2013

7 Qualities Every Start-up Employee Needs | by Jeff Haden – [link]. The Fundamental Challenge of Your Startup’s First Hire: Leading and Learning at the Same Time – [link]. 7 Qualities Every Start-up Employee Needs | by Jeff Haden – [link]. But Failure Is Rarely Permanent – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

So what’s wrong the product development model? The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.)

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. I hope our products at Tipsy Elves do that for people every day, but in 2020 I’m making a more intentional effort to bring joy daily for the people around me and for my employees.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 8, 2011

10 Ways to Motivate Your Employees on the Cheap – [link]. 10 Ways to Motivate Your Employees on the Cheap – [link]. Startup Hiring: From Handshake To Honeymoon – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 5 things that seem essential that we launched Buffer without | Buffer Blog – [link]. Google’s Secrets Of Innovation: Empowering Its Employees | Forbes – [link]. by Daniel Burrus – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Stop whining and start hiring remote workers – [link]. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Stop whining and start hiring remote workers – [link]. – [link]. The ideal product manager – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2011

Breaking in a new employee? Interesting perspective on how Southwest Airlines hires employees – [link]. Breaking in a new employee? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Small business and startup tips: training day!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2011

5 things that suck (about hiring new employees) and 10 things companies can do about it – [link]. How to Avoid a Disaster When Outsourcing to an Overseas Web Developer – [link]. 5 things that suck (about hiring new employees) and 10 things companies can do about it – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2011

Interesting perspective on startup hiring and whether startups confuse A and B “players&# – [link]. Meet Amazon.com’s first employee: Shel Kaphan – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link].

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

Teachable In a traditional business you leverage the time of your employees. This means that the easier your process is to teach, the easier it is to find employees who can do the work, the more employees you can hire, and the more profit you will make per sale.

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