YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2020

Remote workers are hired regardless of their location (e.g., This is a new paradigm for doing business–the entire company is considered as one contiguous unit, despite the distributed nature of its offices or employees. To get up and running quickly with overseas hiring companies can make use of Employer-of-Records or EoR.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Generate revenue around the clock.

Technical Review 243

Technical Review Software Review Internet Revenue 243

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2020

Sure, this work from home thing may not be forever, but I think we are going to see more situations like this arise in the future or see a handful of employees want to work from home following the return to normal. They discuss ways they engage with their remote employees and keep culture and team cohesion alive and well.

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Management Hiring Wiki Employee 219

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”. They include: a) Increasing traffic and conversion on a website. One should also determine if outsourcing to virtual assistants, subcontracting and hiring employees would truly work. Nuts and Bolts.

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Technical Review Software Review South Carolina Startup 100

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

A host of online business education degrees are still geared towards problem-solving through teamwork and collaboration, making it a superb environment in which to meet people who you may one day end up going into business with, befriending, or maybe even hiring. Setting an Example for Your Employees. Being a Better Leader.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2019

When you’re engaged in business, it’s important to be prepared for worst-case scenarios, like accidents due to incorrect machine operation, chemical spills, or slip and falls in the workplace. For your safety guidelines, make sure to post visible work safety charts or boards for your employees to refer to now and then.

Colorado 113

Colorado Software Review Technical Review Security 113

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Great employees, especially ones with technical skills, are often hard to come by—and the competition for them is fierce. I’ve got two easy research tricks you can do to find out exactly how you should be differentiating yourself to make the best impression on potential employees. Use Glassdoor to find employee pain points.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

Also trending are housewares that are bespoke, unexpected, and conversational. 7- Making and selling website themes Photo Credit: Sean Stevens If you know how to code, especially front-end development, you can use your skills to make money by making and selling website themes online. Thanks to Oliver Goodwin, Synthesys.io ! #7-

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To prevent hackers from gaining access to your business's checking account, use low-cost software and dual controls to strengthen your payment processes. Press releases are becoming less successful, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining earned media. Photo Credit: Ernests Embutniek. Thanks to Michael Ziarko, No More Chores ! #3-

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Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 122

VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Perhaps it’s boredom, or Zoom fatigue, but there’s something quite appealing these days about having social conversations without turning on a camera. Spotify a cquired LA-based live audio app Locker Room and is reportedly on a hiring spree to launch their own social audio experience.

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Audio Software Review Open Source Social Network 139

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Many companies hire remote teams, and this comes with plenty of advantages. First of all, you will attract potential employees who prefer this type of arrangement because it better fits their preferred lifestyle. The first step to creating a successful remote team is hiring people who can work independently.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s uncharted territory and it’s changing the conversation around what higher education should look like. Business moves so quickly — due to advances in artificial intelligence, shifting consumer behaviors, and other trends — that new industries and professions are continuously being created.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2017

Here at Palo Alto Software , we take hiring pretty seriously. I should know—we just wrapped up a lengthy hiring process within the marketing department. After months of searching, dozens of interviews, and sifting through countless resumes, we finally hired a new managing editor for Bplans.

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Hiring Employee Matching Software Review 105

Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

And Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo, discussed code quality. And she has just about completed 60 to 140 ( Ada is hiring !). Throw in a bit of wellness coach, and you have yourself a role for a renaissance person (or alternatively, someone who knows how to hire for their weaknesses).

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Salary Non-Compete 135

Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

These include increased employee satisfaction, better volunteer and donor engagement, stronger collaboration as well as added creativity and innovation. It does mean that when we’re designing new programs, or hiring people to help us redesign processes, that we ask a lot of questions. Luckily that’s what boards do.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

And you’ve likely heard of the old adage, “Hire slowly, fire fast.” One bad employee in your organization can create an ineffective system as a whole. Even employees who know that they’re not doing so well have a hard time wrapping their heads around the possibility that they could actually get fired. Evaluate Your Relationship.

Software Review 127

Software Review Employee Conversion Hiring 127

YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2020

Since you’re completing most of your work from home, you’ll need the software to support client information. The software will also keep up with invoices during the time that you’re at home. Download Video Conferencing Software. Ensure that you have a computer that has the space to store all your documents.

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Software Review Software Employee Email 189

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

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. Initially, I would like to hire people from my neighborhood, with the goal of expanding to other communities in the future. This will help those who lost work due to the pandemic.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2020

Hiring developers used to be an expensive barrier to getting started. The rise of no-code solutions has provided a platform for non-techies to build their own proof of concept and early technology solutions. Thanks to Amber Christian, Wonderly Software Solutions, creator of Bella Scena ! #2- Photo Credit: Amber Christian.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review Artificial Inteligence 143

VC Adventure

AUGUST 16, 2020

Despite how much time companies talk about the importance of their employees and, in many cases, how every employee is also an “owner” of their business through their option program, most companies are pretty ad hoc (or down right sloppy) about how they plan for and execute their option program.

Programming 149

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. This is not a conversion problem. Most startups fail. This is a customer development problem.

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Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 126

blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. As a result, candidates ranged from self-taught college dropouts or associate’s degree holders to PhD holders, ACM winners, MIT/Harvard/Stanford/Caltech students, and Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google interns and employees with a lot of people in between. Jun 21, 2013.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 98

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. These shortcuts add up and become what is called technical debt.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 23, 2018

by Penny Garbus, co-author of “ Mining New Gold — Managing Your Business Data “ Much of what keeps a business operating and profitable lies not on a store shelf but deep inside a computer system, where critical information such as inventory, customer mailing lists, employee files, sales records and vendor information is stored.

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Metadata Software Review Widget Cofounder 124

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%). They are professionals with full-time jobs, who often don’t have time for due diligence (and may not even know how to do it) and often make decisions through trusted referrals or based on gut feelings (more on gut feelings later).

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Angel Investor Technical Review Software Review Accredited Investor 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Generate revenue around the clock.

Internet 263

Internet Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 263

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

A lot of startups fail within the first few months due to some commonly acknowledged culprits – picking a bad time to scale, running out of operating capital, lack of a steady customer base, high customer acquisition cost, and low to nonexistent repeat business. If the answer is “no”, why hire him/her at all?

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Sales Widget Sales Cycle Software Review 171

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Complex and high asset divorces will continue to hire divorce attorneys and divorce professionals for years to come. The trends shifting in the eLearning sector due to the influence of COVID 19 on schools and colleges across the United States and the world are shifting to a hybridized-online and in-person format. 3- Two trends.

Entrepreneur 149

Entrepreneur United States Software Review Technical Review 149

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2018

Entrepreneurs are actually proven to be happier and healthier than employees who work for someone else. As a business owner, it’s important to monitor the health of your growing company to spot warning signs—a fractured team, negative customer reviews, poor customer retention, and a lack of creative innovation. A fractured team.

Software Review 78

Software Review Technical Review Retention Startup 78

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Generate revenue around the clock.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Software Review Internet Revenue 120

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

For some reason there’s a stigma around cash vs. equity conversation and it seems to offend some founders that people have limits for what they will do on an equity-only basis. I would think that if you are trying to attract people on an equity-only basis you wouldn’t want to get too far into the conversation without raising the issue.

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Technical Cofounder CTO Hire Equity Sweat Equity 241

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Generate revenue around the clock.

Internet 249

Internet Technical Review Software Review Revenue 249

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

This is an opportunity for you to focus on what you do best (or the most) and hire other people to do what they excel at. Then you can hire (or sub-contract) someone else to do it for you. Hire a superstar salesman. But when you hire other people, you will have more free time to come up with growth strategies for your business.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Customer service reps have data on customer conversations. You may choose to work down only to a team level if your company has more than 30 employees. This data might show that customers abandon their carts because they’re looking for promo codes and then get distracted. Your sales team has data in their CRM.

Technical Review 107

Technical Review Software Review API Analytics 107

Board Effect

JUNE 25, 2023

A growing number of people are deciding where to put their time, money and energy based not only on the goals of a nonprofit, but also its commitment to environmental sustainability, leadership, employee diversity and other social responsibility issues. They can take a hard look at what they are doing well and what needs to be improved.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. How many full-time W2 employees do you have?

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