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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10: The most proven way to hire well

Austin Startup

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. I didn’t know better at the time and they were much older and “experienced” than I was, so I let them run with that plan. But they were wrong 50% of the time, six months later.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments. We hired outside experts. What about battery charge times? I was not fried.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

In the 90’s, there was a famous TV spot in Spain from Renault tagging the new young generation entering labor market. When we created Yeeply in 2012 we were sure IT hiring was going to be all about freelancing platforms and remote work. Sandboxx is a social media platform used by over one million service members.

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