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These Innocent Hiring Mistakes Can Kill Your Startup

Transformify

All of the above is true, but it is also true that many startups have failed because they hired too early, too fast, or fired too late. Many of the points below can be found among the best hiring practices for startups and there is nothing wrong with them in general. Then the hiring begins. Hire full-time employees.

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

Both Sides of the Table

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. I recommend hiring or appointing a growth hacker.”

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

You Manage What you Measure. One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Or they go in the opposite direction and spend too much time capturing & measuring data that isn’t used to make management decisions. How many through SEM?

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

They could try to figure out how to do logistics, warehouse tracking, photo-processing and route management. They might struggle to hire a-players because, well, would you go work at Public Storage to build their software capabilities? PR requires time and effort from your team that isn’t spent elsewhere and thus is a real cost.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For example, its always nice to have someone constantly optimizing your SEM accounts, driving down your CPA. One last thought.

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Twitter Link Roundup #263 – Ultimate Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

How to Consistently Hire Remarkable Data Scientists | First Round Review – buff.ly/199A8u1. Trada, the Google Ventures-Backed SEM Crowdsourcing Firm, Closes Its Doors mklnd.com/1xPy1rc. How Much Should Your Startup Spend on Managing Churn? Scott Oldford on Becoming Transparent and Finding Authenticity crowdspring.co/1Bb0qDS.

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Five Learnings Of Growing From A Local Online Startup To An International Business

YoungUpstarts

By Willem Nout, project manager and Head of Search for Flipit.com. Two 28-year old founders, a friend they hired to come work for them fulltime and one intern in a nice but small office in Amsterdam. Your business could go bankrupt without you even knowing it, because you are only busy with hiring new people.

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