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3 Tips on How to Recruit Your First Remote Team

Up and Running

If you’ve never recruited for a remote team, you’re probably wondering if the recruitment process looks different than the traditional hiring process. The answer? Yes, it does. However, this shouldn’t worry you. All you have to know is where to look, how to leverage LinkedIn for your recruitment process , and how to communicate with remote workers. This guide will give you three quick tips to get you started on the right track.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Some quick numbers: 2016 Revenue: $515M (up about 6x year over year due to artificially restricted advertising revenue prior to 2016) 2016 Expenses: $919M 2016 Operating Loss: $404M To justify a $20B valuation, the market is suggesting that, at some point in the future, Snap would need to generate financials that look something like this (assuming no discount for risk/time): Revenue: $10B Operating margin: 20% Operating profit: $2B P/E multiple: 10x Growing revenues and profits by about 10% / ye

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Avoiding the trap of low-knowledge, high-confidence theories

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We’ve all laughed at detailed renderings of constellations overlaying a paltry set of stars that are in fact quasi-random. Like Fornax, which is just three stars: But which humans have no trouble rendering as an intricate sequence of machinery: It would be funny, if this natural compulsion didn’t also cause us to make bad decisions, all the time.

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Finding Startup Developers - First Email Contact

SoCal CTO

Here is the most recent version of an all too common email inquiry from a startup founder. I've removed the two words that described the market - otherwise this is verbatim. I'm working on a start up idea in the XXX market with my partner and we are currently looking for full stack developer to join us as a technical co-founder. We have been reading about the LA CTO Forum and we thought it would be a great place to find him/her.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Make Your Move With An MIS Degree

YoungUpstarts

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that advanced education is a tool to help professionals in many fields enter or move upwards in their careers. While your resume or curriculum vitae should call attention to your work skills and experience, having certain kinds of schooling can either give you the edge you need or significantly boost your chances of landing a lucrative job.

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How to combat negative investor sentiment? Use your customer references

Version One Ventures

Sometimes there’s a disconnect between investor sentiment and the product’s value. The same thing happens in the market: good companies can have a lower stock price due to public sentiment and market factors outside of their control. Not every start-up can play in a vertical that’s an investor darling. For example, you may be in a crowded market. Maybe there have been some high profile failures in the past.

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What They Don’t Tell You About Entrepreneurial Leadership

YFS Magazine

The freedom of being a leader comes with hidden shackles. We personify our companies, and if we look disheveled, so do our businesses.

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3 Basic Contract Clauses You Should Never Forget To Include

YoungUpstarts

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com . As a business owner, your focus and specialization lies in convincing potential clients as to why they should choose you to resolve a specific challenge they face. Yet, many small firms and private contractors make the mistake of immediately going straight to work once an agreement is reached without creating a legally binding contract that spells out the exact terms and conditions of their relationship.

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10 Simple iPhone Hacks To Make Life Easier

YFS Magazine

10 simple iPhone hacks that will make your life easier; whether it’s daily planning, shopping, scheduling meetings or even to simplify parking payments.

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How To Be A Great Leader

YoungUpstarts

by Ross Kimbarovsky, founder of crowdSPRING. Many people confuse leadership and management. They are not the same. As you build and lead your teams, how can you ensure that you don’t suck as a leader? During my career, I’ve worked with a few remarkable leaders and managers. I’ve also worked with many who were average or even worse, mostly ineffective.

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We Value Conversion More Than We Value Trust: Wading Into The Unroll.Me Discussion

Hunter Walker

Well, @Unrollme probably having a more interesting Sunday than they expected pic.twitter.com/qCtNAOnSHM. — Unroll.UsFrom2017 (@hunterwalk) April 23, 2017. So the moment I read Mike Isaac’s TK profile it jumped out that Unroll.me was going to have a problem on their hands. Their consumers were surprised at what was being done with their data and no one likes surprises.

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Defending Your Business Offensively And Defensively

The Startup Magazine

Trouble On All Sides. Your business is going to see trouble on both sides of the fence. You’ll have those bring suits against you of a personal injury nature which are unfounded, and likewise you may be victim to injuries from higher-powered organizations. Granted, you’re more likely to be attacked, than to need defense; but you need to be prepared.

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Driving Your Business with Dashboards

Duct Tape Marketing

Driving Your Business with Dashboards written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Imagine tooling down the highway at a high rate of speed without the aid of a dashboard – you wouldn’t know how fast you are going, how your car is doing, even if you had enough gas to get to where you were going. Just as a dashboard helps power your car – a dashboard is an important tool when it comes to easily accessing how well a business is doing.

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What Is Drop Shipping? A Beginner’s Guide

The Startup Magazine

Drop shipping is a retail business model; however, it differs from traditional models in that the owner only purchases product from a vendor when an order has been placed by a customer. This eliminates the need to own or store inventory and opens up a wide range of opportunities for entrepreneurs. Drop shipping refers to a process in which products ship directly from supplier to customer, rather than shipping to the business itself first, thus streamlining the process.

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How to Build and Structure a Conversion Optimization Team

ConversionXL

The initial phase of establishing an optimization practice at any organization is an exciting time. Big wins often accompany putting companies and careers on an upward trajectory. But it can also be a real challenge knowing where to start and how to lay a solid foundation with the potential to transform the business. How you structure your team might be the most important part of this.

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How to Find the Best in Automobile Financing

The Startup Magazine

While more and more Americans are opting to use public transportation and ride share companies like Uber, statistics show that the need to own our own vehicles is still prominent with 91% of US households owning at least one car. Out of all of those cars, nearly 85% of them are financed through a loan or a lease. What if all of those buyers could have secured a loan with better rates, one that could have saved them thousands of dollars over the years?

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Transcript of The Guide to Figuring People Out

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of The Guide to Figuring People Out written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Transcript provided by Verbatim Transcription Services. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: [00:00:00] What if there was a guide to figuring people out. Well, apparently there is and you can learn about it when you listen to me interview Vanessa Van Edwards, the author of ‘Captivate-The Science of Succeeding with People’.

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Why is a Marketing Strategy Essential for a Successful Marketing Campaign?

The Startup Magazine

A marketing campaign needs to achieve three results; A well-targeted message that reaches a defined target audience. A message that is understood by the audience. A message that encourages people to take one of more actions. Just as looking at these three points is enough to understand why there needs to be a marketing strategy behind a campaign. This is what a marketing strategy brings to your campaign; It defines marketing campaign GOALS.

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Five Questions You Need To Answer Before Choosing A Video Production Company

The Startup Magazine

Online videos can benefit your marketing strategy but it is important to carefully choose who will work with you on this project. There are countless production companies and finding the right one can be time-consuming. You might feel that watching a few samples before choosing a company is a good approach. You should instead ask yourself what the perfect video partner would look like.

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