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[INTERVIEW] Glen McKay, Newfoundland Business Leader, Co-Founder of Newfoundland Hard-Rok, Inc.

YoungUpstarts

Starting as a deckhand delivering cod and turbot from fishermen in Newfoundland and Labrador, over the past forty years, Glen McKay has molded his career into one that focuses on entrepreneurship and leading the growth of companies operating in a range of industries. Hire people who have strengths to offset your weaknesses and empower them.

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

Transformify Recruitment CRM and Generate FS have joined forces to help employers hire top talent worldwide. Once the right candidates are selected, the employers can benefit from the ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ or the ‘’Umbrella’’ solutions. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution. .’’

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Biz Dev Tips for Startups – The ‘First Meeting’

VC Cafe

Here are a few lessons I learnt from having hundreds of business meetings in Australia, Chile, and the USA. ’, “We’re going to hire and try to scale our operations” The anchor here is that they’ll be recruiting soon. an intro to a relevant engineer if they’re looking to hire).

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Glen McKay: From Newfoundland Fishing Boat Deckhand to Mining CEO

Hearpreneur

At that time, the explosives business operated under the existing Newfoundland Hard-Rok division of MRO Supplies Ltd. Carl Foss and Keith Phelan take care of the operations side, while I handle finance and administration. You need to know a little bit about everything, including operations, finances, marketing and communications.

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Chile, Entrepreneurs, Endeavor, and Global Lessons

Reid Hoffman

Spotify then used the data and insights from operating in Scandinavia to learn how to build the successful business globally. Similarly, Spotify took advantage of its ability to launch in a smaller, constrained market like Scandinavia, which made the music labels more willing to experiment with different royalty systems.

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Should Your Startup Start Overseas?

ReadWriteStart

And some countries - like Chile, for example - offer startups significant financial incentives. I developed a close relationship with one of the initial employees I hired, who has now been working with me for a number of years and ended up being a great choice.”. Job, who will soon expand operations to the U.S.,

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How Many Kinds Of Immigrant Visas Does It Take To Staff A Startup?

ReadWriteStart

Note that this requires an existing business venture (rather than a start-up), significant constraints on the operations of the business and a potentially arbitrary adjudication before the visa is issued. employers to temporarily hire foreign workers in certain specialty occupations. Both require a capital investment in a U.S