SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. The first thing I do is suggest they explore if they really need to hire a full-time CTO for their startup and if so, what kind of CTO they need.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

A great way to tell others about your brand and about what you have to offer is to start blogging. Blogging is your gateway to communicating with the outside world and reaching out to potential customers. Reasons to use blogs to benefit your startup include: 1. Giving your business an air of authority in the industry.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Follow him at @rrhoover or visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. More often than not, hiring managers rely on trusted recommendations and evaluate applicants based on tangible things they have accomplished. GitHub shows hiring managers what they have accomplished. Blogging opens doors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

This will be the team who hires the most talented people, channels them in the most productive configuration and gets the most output from their unique capabilities. Only hire A players. B players tend to have slightly more self-confidence issues so they tend to hire people slightly worse than themselves – thus C teams.

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Transformify

JUNE 29, 2023

In this article, we will explore some of the top skills for freelancers in the digital age, as well as some best practices for hiring freelancers , managing off-payroll talent, and leveraging a contingent workforce. or follow tutorials and blogs from experts in the field. or online tools like Canva, Figma, etc.,

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

The Benefits of Hiring A Virtual Assistant For Your Business Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Rob Levin In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Rob Levin. But now this, this notion also is now a lot more accessible to hire people from anywhere in the globe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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. You should never hire internal or external staff based solely on what they can do now. Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.”

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Brandanew

JULY 31, 2015

So, today I am sharing my top five favorite social media blogs from experts. 5 Social Media Blogs From Experts That Are Awesome. But more importantly it also runs an excellent blog where you can learn a lot about getting the most out of your social channels. Which social media blogs do you read? Happy learning!

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2013

and I can't argue strenously enough for investing the time into a blog this year if you've started a company. Your job is to keep the company funded and to hire the best people--and both require a convincing narrative told to people you build a relationship with over time. What about hires? Ok, it's still resolution time, right?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 1, 2012

See College Grads Shun Startup Jobs - And How To Hire Them Anyway.). Schawbel’s study reports some of the most common job skills for Gen Y workers include blogging, social media optimization and writing press releases. Can Startups Cope With Acqui-hires? Hire Millennials. Hire Millennials. Or Compete Against Them.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Should you invest in better customer service, increase your product assortment, or hire people with more expertise? The post How Blogging Could Strengthen Your Company This Year appeared first on Young Upstarts. However, when your main intention is to make your company stronger, it’s not always easy to decide how to do that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Here are three key cost elements of just the viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. In a business plan these are only one of the many marketing campaigns which continue to rise in cost.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2014

It could be time to hire some help. If you own your own business and find that you simply don’t have enough time on your hands to be able to do all the things you need to do, you may be asking yourself should you hire an employee? . Disadvantages of hiring a new employee: An employee costs you money. Perhaps a sales rep?

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Fortunately, many of the top VCs share their thoughts on their blogs and are full of advice for startups, both big and small. Here’s a list of our favorite VC blogs, in alphabetical order. I like to follow these blogs through Feedly, but you can often sign up to get email alerts for new posts from most of these blogs.

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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. We hired more people to help and this freed us to focus on those strategic relationships. – Andrew Thomas, SkyBell Video Doorbell. When you feel overwhelmed.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 1, 2012

See College Grads Shun Startup Jobs - And How To Hire Them Anyway.). Schawbel’s study reports some of the most common job skills for Gen Y workers include blogging, social media optimization and writing press releases. Can Startups Cope With Acqui-hires? Hire Millennials. Hire Millennials. Or Compete Against Them.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

And as such, you are no stranger to guest blogging. So, adhering to Google representatives’ recommendations of creating great content and SEO veterans’ instruction of linking to fresh content, it seems everyone started to guest post in different levels of blogs and content quality. Fast forward to 2014. So, what SHOULD you do in 2014?

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Transformify

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Blogs are an important part of a content marketing strategy. Content is king in today’s digital marketing landscape, and this is proven true with 55% of marketers saying that blog writing is their number one priority for inbound marketing. However, not everyone has the time to produce multiple blog posts consistently.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 31, 2011

At a board meeting yesterday, a management team was talking about their hiring needs and some of the challenges they're having hiring great people. Here's a simple tip: track hiring analytics and assign them to someone. If you're not interviewing enough people, you're not going to be able to hire someone--simple as that.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

It is all about how you hire the best and the amazing impact doing so will have on your culture. You must test those that you want to hire. When we got to our finalists after 5–8 interviews and everyone was ready to hire them, we would call them up?—?typically Note: this was originally posted on my blog at Lucky7.io

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 18, 2016

Each person we hire contributes to not only the development of the product, but also to the productivity of the team and overall company culture. When we make a bad hiring decision, we not only affect the product, but we also affect the team, the company’s culture, and the potential success of the business.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2020

You might not be at the point where you want to hire a w-2 employee, but a 1099 employee could be a good option for you. That would make sense for you to hire someone that is a 1099 worker. Hiring the Best 1099 Employee for the Job. Now you know more about the best way to hire a 1099 employee.

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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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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. I am not talking about outsourcing work to other companies, but rather finding, hiring, and developing a network of freelance vendors or contractors. This does not just apply in the world of creative services.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For most startups the idea of hiring a CBDO is a pipedream, it’s a role that only global corporations have, right? So how do you know when it’s time to hire your first CBDO? You know it’s time to hire a CBDO when you are spending too much of your own time on things that a CBDO could be doing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

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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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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. As a SaaS startup, you would be better off outsourcing components of your project compared to hiring full-time developers.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. It starts with the hiring process. Hire engineers with that profile and you’ll fail. Dick hires Mark on the spot.

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View from Seed

MAY 9, 2019

In part I of this topic, we’ll go through some pros and cons of remote work, and in part II we’ll highlight the types of people you should hire for remote work and how you can manage them effectively. Expand Geographic Limitations – By offering a remote work option, you don’t limit your hiring to just employees nearby.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2012

Every blog owner finds himself or herself wondering how they can improve their site to engage visitors, build relationships, and of course grow revenues. If you own a blog and visitors are showing up, however, you have access to a far greater number of resources to help you find out what your audience wants so you can provide more of it.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 1, 2012

See College Grads Shun Startup Jobs – And How To Hire Them Anyway.). Schawbel’s study reports some of the most common job skills for Gen Y workers include blogging, social media optimization and writing press releases. Can Startups Cope With Acqui-hires? Hire Millennials. Hire Millennials.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Introduced before keynoting at Austin, Texas's Capital Factory Demo Day as "the most-connected person in Silicon Valley," Hoffman gave a really interesting talk about how he handles hiring at his company. I live blogged his talk on Google Plus and offer my notes below. Auren Hoffman on hiring people to work in tech startups.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.

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Our Own Start-up

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In this blog post, we will discuss the ins and outs of working with a hiring agency for your business, including the benefits, how to choose the right agency, what to expect during the process, and tips for maximizing your partnership.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Post 1 of 4 in the series of Scaling CPO’s) In most startups, the HR function starts out as tactical, because you have to get people hired and paid, and while you might have a founder or early-stage employee who can do these things, often these tasks are frequently outsourced to a PEO. But those things won’t help you scale.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This blog aims to guide you through the process, from the initial steps of conducting market research to operational management, hiring staff, and more. Hiring Staff Your staff will often be the face of your business, interacting directly with customers. Finding the sweet spot where quality meets affordability is key.

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