Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Main Street Venture Fund LLC, an angel fund of about 25 private investors, was formed by Ruffolo Benson LLC in northeast Indiana with the intention of bringing together area entrepreneurs and private investors to create economic value for the region. I will share several of our group’s insights from the past two years. Emotional maturity.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

As you grow, think about the right timing for bringing on more people with specific roles, but remember – hire slow, fire fast. As Tony Hsieh of Zappos pointed out during his DCWEEK visit, bad hires have accounted for millions of lost dollars through the years. So if you do find your duplicate, hire them as soon as possible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

It's never selfish to hire. In the mid-90s, late '94, early '95 my buddy and I were trying to figure out the best way to listen to Indiana basketball and we had to have a speakerphone where we had one set up in Bloomington, Indiana, one in Dallas, Texas. I said, "Hire people. It's never selfish to hire.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

Still, you need some amount of development experience to do all of this so you still need to hire--or why not just do it yourself? You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana. That's right--Indiana. Don't want to learn code?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 19, 2020

That’s why it’s so important not to just say you’ll hire women for STEM jobs, but to actively recruit females and give them paths to career development. Indiana Lee is a professional writer who resides in the Pacific Northwest. The lack of women in the field has nothing to do with ability or even desire. About the Author.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Hire a Programmer The Hope: You’ll use the programmer to build a prototype that will get you traction and experience. You know how to product manage and you’ve hired programmers before. I recommend you start by reading this post on how to hire a programmer. We tried this at Yipit and failed.

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Transformify

JULY 17, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Lopez holds a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism and Gender Studies from Indiana University Bloomington. What does diversity hiring mean to you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

He gave me the opportunity to answer questions about our proposal, and share the stories of immigrant entrepreneurs who are creating job all over America, including the Senators home state of Indiana.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And you think about how hard it is to hire a normal employee in any business. You'll be able to use that on the other side with everybody you hire going forward. I have a family member back in Indiana and she's my aunt and she's been on a respirator for. And how do we bring them back on with a person. Today is day 10.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

When my client workload started to expand and demand increased for creative graphics and web design I decided that it was time to grow the business and hire a team to help support the incoming work. My wife and I met in college in Indiana and soon after graduation, decided we were going to move to Chicago. Photo Credit: Joe Horan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

They are the ones who are spending their tax dollars are seeing within your community, they’re hiring employees from your community. Some of the greatest success stories are a season two Annabella Italian restaurant and Bristol borough has tripled their sales, and hired a few more people. They’re all more profitable.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push A new federal program that lets states give companies financial incentives for hiring jobless people hasnt gained traction, illustrating the complications of government attempts to tackle unemployment. Meanwhile, an Egypt-based, al Qaeda-inspired group claimed responsibility for Fridays attack along the border.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

You struggle to get budget to hire Analysts or Marketers. Or for a week don't send newspaper inserts (yes those things that go directly into recycle bins) in Arizona, New York and Indiana and run banner ad campaigns on related sites and drive people to your website to look at relevant and unique campaigns in their zip codes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2022

53% of consumers have hired a company that responded first, even if they were not the least expensive. Next time I'm in Indiana or so, Appreciate. But is, I mean, so essentially, I'm guessing the major hypothesis here is that, that the faster you can respond, the more you're gonna get. Jay Baer (03:20): Yes. And that is true.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel.

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