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How To Create And Communicate Performance Standards In Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

However, companies face the challenge of providing performance standards so that their new hires understand what the management expects of them and support staff, such as trainers and managers, can provide the information new hires need to succeed. Customize Standards for the Job. Take Variables Into Account.

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Embrace: Valerie Lopez on the importance of employee-led resource groups

Transformify

‘’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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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? If you’ve got tips for other business owners or want to share your experiences with hiring developers, please leave us a note in the comments section.

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Rewards of a Diverse Nonprofit Board: Making a Commitment to LGBTQ and DEI

Board Effect

associate dean for research and international programs at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI, “Diverse board members can improve the organization’s philanthropic engagement through increased board member participation, fundraising, and advocacy.”. As stated by Una Osili , Ph.D.,

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

be the manager and product developer). 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.

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Trophy Entrepreneurs Can Land Trophy Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The trophy investor understands these challenges and has developed a professional process to manage his investments. Prized angel investors not only contribute money to an opportunity, but also important wisdom acquired from prior experience in areas such as stakeholder relations, employee hiring, and strategic planning.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

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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