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How To Hire A Virtual Assistant To Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Saqib Ayaz, co-founder of Hire an Assistant. A virtual assistant is a self-employed person who is being hired on contractual basis for as long as the client needs his/ her services. Virtual Assistants are being increasingly hired by a number of people and businesses some of which are: Entrepreneurs. Physicians.

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How To Keep Track Of Business Finances In 2023

The Startup Magazine

Image Source Hire a talented finance team First and foremost, consider who you have on your finance team. If you’re a small startup, you might want to outsource your financial needs as a business until you’ve gotten to a point where you can hire internally full-time. Many of these options offer great 14-day trials or free demos.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

The culmination of this bootcamp is a “demo day” where all startups in the cohort have a few minutes to pitch their companies to venture capitalists and angel investors. (In Firms asking for greater than 60% are actually hiring an employee rather than a founder. In some cases the accelerator provides initial funding themselves.)

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How Silicon Valley's Most-Connected Exec Does His Hiring

ReadWriteStart

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. Auren Hoffman on hiring people to work in tech startups. I live blogged his talk on Google Plus and offer my notes below.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. But it seemed to work.

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A checklist for your funding announcement

Version One Ventures

Assets: high resolution logos, headshots, demo videos, etc. Make it simple for people to contact you and take the next step, whatever that might be: “Join our waitlist,” “Sign up for a demo,” “Download our whitepaper,” “We’re hiring – work with our team.”. Quotes from your investors, customers, etc. Pick your timing.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

Both Sides of the Table

The other quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing. Which means we’re doing our job.” . I don’t think they serve investors well.