Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Don’t let one incident, observation, rumor, or misunderstanding cause a rush to judgement, or hiring mistake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. You should never hire internal or external staff based solely on what they can do now. Contractors and freelancers, like any other business, manage their own internal processes, but they can’t manage your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2021

The CEO must focus on key management team hires and assume a few mistakes which need to get fixed. A great hire can make a company, but a single bad one can break it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

Hiring a hands-on lead developer might seem like the right move for an early stage startup. But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. Is it the best path to profitability? That’s why the CTO’s attention is on programming for the earliest stage. It might be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Business success is all about having the best team, yet the average entrepreneur has little prior experience with hiring people and building top-notch teams. Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Hire only people with positive and can-do attitudes. It’s easy to spot negativity and complainers, which should be a major red flag in every hiring process. In fact, many experts believe that hiring for attitude is more important than hiring for skill. Use the interview process and really listen to responses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Hiring virtual assistants for each specific project can be a lot more efficient and cheaper than hiring and managing employees. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Generate revenue around the clock. Use the Internet to outsource staff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions. How the leaders of your company handle adherence to the spirit as well as the letter of the law will be seen by all employees, customers, and investors. Ethics and the view of personal boundaries should be explored fully. Carry minimal historical baggage.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Use Contracts to Your Advantage Whether you’re hiring employees, working with vendors, or entering into agreements with partners, contracts are essential. For entrepreneurs, consulting with legal professionals during the setup phase can help ensure the business is shielded from unnecessary risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

One of the harsh realities for most product entrepreneurs is that they have deal with hiring and firing as their company grows, and they have no experience or idea where to start. Staffing Professional. Staffing requirements come and go in every company, big or small. Administrative Professional.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Minimize permanent hiring and customized operational facilities. In this age of the gig-economy, you can more quickly hire and manage freelancers, contract workers, and contract operations. Facilitate rapid growth through contracted resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2022

New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. Hire only ethical people, so further time on business ethics is not needed. The reality is different. This is usually an excuse for not developing ethical policies and practices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are my recommendations for training and managing your team to keep their delivery memorable for customers, as well as profitable for your business: Hire team members who enjoy customer interaction.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2025

Focus on increasing average talent with each hire and hire slowly: Your early employees should ideally be smarter and slightly more risk-averse than the founders. If a potential hire doesn’t increase the company’s average intelligence, it’s a mistake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Select new hires with attention to values. Breaking work into bite-size missions and giving teams the autonomy to figure out the “how” leads to faster, better decision-making. If you have more than three organizational layers below the top executive level, you may not be ready for digital competitors.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

This not only speeds up hiring but also lowers the costs associated with lengthy recruitment cycles. AI-driven platforms can also streamline the onboarding process, providing new hires with personalized learning paths, thereby reducing the need for extensive HR personnel involvement and ensuring quicker employee ramp-up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

This is one of the key roles in a growing new company which can benefit from someone who clearly has experience dealing with people – whether it be hiring and firing, assisting in performance reviews, or dealing with the day-to-day crises of any growing business. Personnel Manager. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Photo by Jakub Zerdzicki from Pexels Going beyond hiring security guards, it’s also important for startups to implement the right strategies that prevent attacks through their physical assets. Verify the people you hire As your startup expands, you must hire more people for the team.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2025

If youre not confident in managing these alerts yourself, consider hiring a reputable Managed Services Provider (MSP) to handle 24/7 remote monitoring for you over the holidays. Set thresholds that balance security with sanitynobody wants their phone buzzing every time someone checks their email from grandma’s house.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2021

Technical entrepreneurs, in particular, who build an innovative product, often don’t realize that building a successful business requires an equal focus on hiring the right people, providing the right tools and resources, and communicating effectively. Employees are engaged, committed, and accountable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

Every startup should have at least a couple of outside advisors who are not major investors or family members, anxious to talk to new investors and key new hires. Any outside advisors or board members available for discussion? These should be people with complementary skills to the founders as well as industry expertise or connections.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As highlighted in this article on the benefits of hiring an elder abuse lawyer , ensuring accountability and advocating for justice are essential components of ethical practices in elder care. For entrepreneurs navigating these challenges, understanding the broader impact of their innovations is vital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution. In some environments product focus is not the most important element. Perhaps the focus should be on a single distribution channel, better customer service, or a simplified pricing structure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Actually, building and nurturing the right team is the hard part, requiring communication, hiring, and leadership. You alone will never find enough hours in a day to keep with all the challenges of sales, support, and scaling the business, in addition to developing and delivering your solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Investors want organizations that manage people talent and growth, through good hiring, performance feedback, development on the job, and building commitment. Focus on talent and people growth. They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

That means every entrepreneur needs to learn how to attract, hire, and manage technical people for their team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen. Chip Bell and Ron Zemke, who are experts in this area, provide some of the best specific insights I’ve seen, in the classic book “ Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service.”

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While the appearance matters, remember you are hiring the development firm primarily for its development skills, not its graphic design skills. Quality of Work: The end product should not only look good but function as expected. Don't be charmed by an impressive aesthetic at the expense of functional results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2020

Then when you have to hire people, you will pick the best. As an entrepreneur, executive, or team member, you are most impacted by the people you gather around you. The smartest team members and the smartest bosses spend more time with people who are smarter in the relevant domain than they are. Make more effective use of your own time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Every organization must constantly review its hiring practices, training, and leadership to make sure the focus is on people who are motivated, open-minded, and empowered. Here are some key strategies to maximize the agility required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility. The real problem is inflexible people.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Specifically, they should know about, and help with: Asking and answering the 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators Knowing when and how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? ,

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Provide step-by-step job aids, training, and hiring for critical aspects of the new plan. Most important changes require new ways of working: a combination of new knowledge, skills, mind-sets, behaviors, relationships, and processes. Allow adequate time for this preparation before implementation. How do I reduce risk?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. This phase is characterized by rapid expansion either regionally or globally for growth (scaling up). This is where the culture of the startup has to adapt to the cultures of the markets served.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2023

Hire for character, competency, and compatibility. Hiring is the single most important thing you do as a leader, and firing is second. Hiring people who are just like you may eliminate revolts, but it won’t get you outside your own box. It’s more than filling an open slot on your team. Diversity on your team expands thinking.

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Rembrandt Communications

MARCH 30, 2025

They hired an SEO or marketing company a few months ago but werent really sure what was happening or what they were paying for at the time. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Over the last few years, many new clients have come to me asking about their content and public relations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

One of the harsh realities for most product entrepreneurs is that they have deal with hiring and firing as their company grows, and they have no experience or idea where to start. Staffing Professional. Staffing requirements come and go in every company, big or small. Administrative Professional.

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