Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. You should never hire internal or external staff based solely on what they can do now. Bored and unmotivated teams are never cost-effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Cash flow can be drastically reduced by working out of your garage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

’’ Diversity hiring is not about ticking boxes in checklists or having all groups represented whatever the definition might be across different geographies around the world. So, who benefits the most from work from home jobs and diversity hiring programs? Work from home jobs & Hiring Neurodiverse People.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If you want to take your business to the next level, you should consider app development. Either way, custom software development is an effective way to build brand awareness and give your business a competitive edge. The Rise of App Development in the Business World. Where to Hire Developers for Your Project.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Chatbots like ChatGPT can help answer your questions about the job search process, and AI-powered job search engines like Hired can match you with relevant job openings based on your skills and experience. Utilise technology: With advancements in technology, there are now numerous tools and resources available to job seekers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Cash flow can be drastically reduced by working out of your garage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. You should never hire internal or external staff based solely on what they can do now. Bored and unmotivated teams are never cost-effective.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Suppliers may ignore the negotiated terms when invoicing, and AP teams, faced with a deluge of invoices and limited time to get payments out the door, only sample select transactions and only do basic 2 or 3 way matching of volume and price. Once upon a time, it would have been necessary to hire more people to check every transaction.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2016

Hiring mistakes and turnover can be costly for any organization; according to the Society for Human Resource Management , it can cost as much as half of an employee’s annual salary to replace them. By Omer Tadjer, CEO and co-founder of Comeet. What does your perfect dream job look like? Is there anything we should have asked you – but didn’t?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

Finding that person is not a hiring challenge, since neither of you really get paid until you both succeed. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

Finding that person is not a hiring challenge, since neither of you really get paid until you both succeed. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Complementary skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. You should never hire internal or external staff based solely on what they can do now. Bored and unmotivated teams are never cost-effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Cashflow can be drastically reduced by working out of your garage.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Who can I hire later? While most of the early attention in a startup is paid to finding product market fit ( the match between value proposition and customer segment on the right-side of the canvas) it’s the left side of the canvas that will tell you what your founding team should look like. And what can I outsource?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Complementary skills.

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Transformify

JUNE 29, 2021

Needless to say, '' bad hires' come at a cost and there is hardly any organization across the globe that has not been hurt by high headcount turnover / low productivity ratio. Besides, the growth in the health care sector, computer occupations like IT security and software development will see fast job growth.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A professional sports team’s goal is to win matches. Winning one match often requires a different strategy from winning the next match. For each match, teams must consider and adjust offensive and defensive strategies, tactics and plans dependent on who they are playing, weather, injuries, and venue etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. You should never hire internal or external staff based solely on what they can do now. Bored and unmotivated teams are never cost-effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Complementary skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Cash flow can be drastically reduced by working out of your garage.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Complementary skills.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We hear all the time about the importance of hiring the right people and the expanding universe of advice can be overwhelming; hire slow and fire fast, only hire the “right&# candidate; ask probing questions; check all references; blah blah blah. So to start, here’s why hiring sucks: 1.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Unfortunately, X has no experience in developing this type of technology or any understanding of what other options are available. X could spend months recruiting specialists to develop a product which matches it competitors. Hiring and keeping top talent is an incredibly hard task and can drive up costs further.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Complementary skills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Rob (01:06): Yeah, I hired my first assistant in 2013. There's plenty of work for them to do, and you even think about hiring another one. John (05:51): Yeah, I know over the years, many years ago I hired an assistant out of the Asia area and the only way to align, as you said, was that they were going to work overnight.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Since then it has become much harder to find people and while we are talking about hiring relatively small numbers of people, the typical sources of candidates dont seem to be working.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Complex and high asset divorces will continue to hire divorce attorneys and divorce professionals for years to come. 9-More precise algorithms to match couples. I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types. 16- Rise of citizen developers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 22, 2012

But although they have the process and controls of a large company, they don’t have the budgets to match; there’s no large reward for successfully navigating the painful, Herculean sales adventure. All this makes for an arduous sales process just like with big companies. Worst of both worlds. Why is it like this?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application.

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A Crowded Space

MAY 5, 2016

As a result, they have a high fill ratio (# of hires / # of jobs posted). oDesk started w just software development jobs, Uber started w just black cars, etc * Matching new w repeat users - two brand new users to a marketplace that try to transact are likely to fail. There’s too much of a learning curve.

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

It’s also remarkably accurate and a very good predictor of the outcome of a match. How valuable would it be if we knew a forced ranking of every software developer in the world? If we could merely separate the top quartile, we would have ridiculously valuable data for recruiting and hiring. It’s probably one of those.

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Transformify

MARCH 5, 2018

As a small and emerging business, every hire is integral to your success. You may be tempted to advertise titles such as ‘IT Guru’ or ‘Development Wizard’ in the hopes of landing an employee who is flexible and can meet unexpected challenges as you continue to grow. PF: You will attract fewer candidates.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Lee Se-dol (right), a legendary South Korean player of Go, poses with Google researcher Demis Hassabis before the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul. Nexar recently hired deep learning heavyweight Professor Trevor Darrell from UC Berkeley as Nexar’s Chief Scientist. Noteworthy Machine Intelligence startups in Israel ??

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 14, 2013

Today's post is brought to you by my friend, Paul Blumenfeld , a recruiter who is one of the most thoughtful people I know when it comes to hiring processes. Many hiring managers write a job spec that is heavy on wishes and low on real needs. I also ask hiring managers to be open-minded about their must-haves. Like Pornography?

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