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4 Essential Hires If You’re Starting a Business in 2020

Up and Running

As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time to take steps to start your business in 2020. Like many fledgling entrepreneurs, you might be thinking that you’ll need to wear not just multiple hats , but all the hats, when you’re first starting out. It might seem easier to put off thinking about your first essential new hires.

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How to Configure Your Startup Team

Both Sides of the Table

I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. How you build out your team in the first few years can have a huge impact on the trajectory of your company. Quick summary: Be careful not to have too many co-founders. Don’t hire a homogenous team.

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How to Hire Your First Employee

Up and Running

But eventually, all successful businesses will have to start taking on employees, and that’s when the fun really begins. Before you get there, however, you have to actually complete the interviewing, hiring, and onboarding process. Their responses ranged from practical tips on hiring to what to look for in a first employee.

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3 tips to turbo-charge your hiring

Version One Ventures

Hiring is key to the success of any business, but it can especially critical for startups. Most founders appreciate the importance of making good hires; however, when a startup is scaling rapidly, process often gets left behind. If you don’t take the time to define the job upfront, it’s going to be really hard to hire against a need.

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How to Launch Your Own Startup Part 4 (money, culture and becoming a manager)

The Next Web

So far I have shared with you 9 simple steps to start your own tech business ((don’t miss part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ). To date I have primarily focused on finding your way into an entrepreneurial environment, identifying a good idea, as well as starting your own business with purpose and style. Beware, it’s not always fun.

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6 Tips for Finding the Right Employees for Your Company

The Startup Magazine

Entrepreneurs and particularly startups don’t always have the resources to outsource the whole hiring process. Hiring an individual can be a significant step toward the unknown, yet it shouldn’t be with contractual workers. In case the individual ends up being marvelous, you can hire them on a full-time basis.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

Whatever your companys "fatal flaw" may be, you can likely avoid it in your own venture if you take some advice from people whove gone through the early startup phase before. Check out the tips below from founders, CEOs and investors alike. Check out the tips below from founders, CEOs and investors alike.

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