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Founder Interview: Abraham Gin on Entrepreneurs and Leadership

The Startup Magazine

Here’s another from The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series. We interviewed Mr. Abraham Gin, an entrepreneur, business coach, and CEO of Gin Consulting Group , which provides unique leadership development and training platforms. TSM: With a bit more detail, what does Gin Consulting Group do? What problems does it solve?

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How to Hire For a Startup: Look For These Qualities

Up and Running

For a startup, the first few hires can be critical: Bringing on a new team member is a hefty financial and personal commitment, and only the right choices will allow a company to scale. On the flip side, the wrong hiring choices can be financially and emotionally devastating. What to Search for in Your First Hire.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup Conference is an event by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs—except that our definition of “entrepreneur” may be different from the one you have in mind. Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders. So what kinds of talks do all these entrepreneurs find valuable?

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How to Make Better Reference Calls

Both Sides of the Table

Whether you’re considering hiring a new employee or as an investor whether you’re looking to do a background check on the founders of a company. Don’t worry about the fact that these are the references that the candidate has hand-picked – that’s part of the process. Ask for at least 5 references.

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How do I raise prices?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

At Smart Bear, Code Reviewer started at $34.95/seat You’re trying to build a better, more sustainable business, both with more customers and a stronger product and deeper tech support bench. Subject: Announcing new pricing for ${product} This is ${name}, founder of ${company}. Can you communicate this clearly?

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When a startup encounters difficult technical problems, this is the guy you want solving them. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. But life is not easy, either.