article thumbnail

Scaling from maker to manager

Version One Ventures

But as the start-up scales and you hire employees, your day-to-day is taken over by more managerial tasks, like hiring and managing people, running company meetings, etc. It’s unusual to hire a non-founder CEO early in a start-up’s life because it will most likely fail. There’s typically little choice for a founder CEO.

article thumbnail

What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. ’’ Diversity hiring is not about ticking boxes in checklists or having all groups represented whatever the definition might be across different geographies around the world.

Hiring 98
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Tech That Can Make The Freelance Economy Sustainable

YoungUpstarts

They want platforms and services that automate hiring and retention while ensuring freelancers feel as supported as their full-time colleagues. Before the freelance economy can flourish, though, business leaders need technology that can help them manage and support freelancers as well as they treat full-time employees.

article thumbnail

WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents.

Engineer 152
article thumbnail

6 Recruiting Best Practices for Finding and Closing Top Talent

Up and Running

It may be difficult for businesses to even think about potential hires at a time like this , but developing a strategy for retaining and attracting top talent will put them in the driver’s seat when things turn for the better. . Your current employees can be powerful allies in your recruitment activities. In an article for Inc.

article thumbnail

Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

Both Sides of the Table

So the efforts by Andersen Consulting amounted to “rolling out the red carpet when the employee was on the way out the door.&# Many employees feel that they aren’t listened too, aren’t challenged or aren’t recognized for their hard work. Ryan was the most talented technologist we had hired at BuildOnline.

article thumbnail

The Power of Getting the Band Back Together

Both Sides of the Table

You hire people who look good on paper. So one of the surest signs you’ve hired a leader is the willingness of his or her former team to re-assemble. When you’re hiring most reference checkers focus on the person’s former bosses. You should also focus heavily on his or her former employees.

CTO Hire 320