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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions.

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8 Tactics To Make Service Your Competitive Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen. Then make sure that everyone on the team does the same, and are motivated to improve the match with your startup. A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with.

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How do I figure out who my next important hire should be?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The question is: How do you decide what role is most important to hire for? If I hire someone to do X, I’ll have time for Y and Z. Hire the best person for that role. Examples: You hire the VP of Engineering for Facebook. You hire a super-effective VP of Sales , would that 10x sales in the next 12 months? (If

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8 Initiatives To Heighten Your Customer’s Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen. Then make sure that everyone on the team does the same, and are motivated to improve the match with your startup. A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with.

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Remote Hiring For Success

YoungUpstarts

Without the luxury of a Human Resources department, many small business owners find themselves navigating the laborious task of hiring the right team members themselves. Department of Labor, the price of a bad hire is estimated at 30 percent of the employee’s first-year earnings.”. Why is hiring the right person so hard?

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Shopify Guide — Here’s How to Become an Expert

ReadWriteStart

Whether you are a Shopify designer, developer, industry authority, or someone who wants to start a Dropshipping business, to become an expert, you will have to learn all the crucial aspects of the marketplace. Unarguably, Shopify has many difficult aspects in growing in the development industry and web design.

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10 Ways Your Startup Co-Founder Is Like A Good Spouse

Startup Professionals Musings

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions.

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