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Global Expansion: 8 Tips to Make Your Next Acqui-Hire Successful

Cracking the Code

As an investor, I’ve sat on both sides of the table in more than a dozen acqui-hire situations. Companies that successfullyleverage acqui-hires can save years of work and gain a competitive advantage by adding skilled technical and operational talent, deep local market knowledge and an accelerated time-to-market.

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

Transformify Recruitment CRM and Generate FS have joined forces to help employers hire top talent worldwide. Once the right candidates are selected, the employers can benefit from the ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ or the ‘’Umbrella’’ solutions. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution. .

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.

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Critical Patent Strategies Startups Can Use From Large Companies

Up and Running

It covers which innovations you select to give patent protection to, which markets you want to protect patents, who you hire to prepare your patent applications, etc. Hire a skilled patent attorney. That specifically applies to who you hire to draft and submit your patent application. Hire in-house counsel. Don’t do it.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

In France in some ways it was worse because if you failed as a startup founder you shouldered personal liabilities that don’t exist in the US under our bankruptcy laws. You also ran the risk that if you hired employees quickly and then demand wasn’t as strong as expected it was incredibility hard to fire people.

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The free software hiring advantage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. This approach gives you an edge in hiring. Instead, engage with the project.