Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

In fact, the considerations are not unique to software development – they apply almost as well to any product or service you have: Control of core competency. Don’t outsource your core competency. Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Technology level.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. While interviewing such a wide cross section of people, I realized that I had a golden opportunity to test some of the prevalent folk wisdom about hiring. As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

In fact, the considerations are not unique to software development – they apply almost as well to any product or service you have: Control of core competency. Don’t outsource your core competency. Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Technology level.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Leadership Abilities Are A Must It’s natural to want a tech savvy and competent CTO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2023

The reality of competing. If you don’t compete with anybody for very long, it may mean that you’re trying to serve a market that doesn’t exist. The reality of hiring and firing. They believe they won’t make hiring mistakes, so will never have to fire anyone. A good answer is not to stop moving. The reality of working.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2021

Then they realize that they have talked to many people without signing non-disclosure statements, precluding a patent, or someone else has now beat them to the filing docket. Founders ignore non-compete clauses from former employers. Do the same for every business partner or employee you may hire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. That means every entrepreneur needs to learn how to attract, hire, and manage technical people for their team. Continually ramp up your own technical competence.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The reality of competing. If you don’t compete with anybody for very long, it may mean that you’re trying to serve a market that doesn’t exist. The reality of hiring and firing. They believe they won’t make hiring mistakes, so will never have to fire anyone. A good answer is not to stop moving. The reality of working.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Here are a few instances where hiring a video production company is highly recommended. If your video is highly specific, you need to hire a video company that has a proven track record in that niche and will provide you with the quality you need. Non-profit videos. When the requirements are highly specific. Event videos.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It also eliminates hiring an outside company to file claims with insurance payors. It can help you avoid wasting time and money on non-covered services and increase your collections by ensuring the patient’s copay or deductible has been paid. Efficiency A smooth, regulated revenue flow is critical to medical practices and hospitals.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 22, 2011

Over the last few weeks I’ve gotten involved in hiring for two startups, a public agency and a non profit. In the last week I had four separate groups through the ranch all wanting to talk either about hiring a senior exec or a senior exec looking for a new job. Are you hiring for search or execution skills? Easy as pie!

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 16, 2019

So when Blake Scholl , Boom’s founder and CEO, recently shared insights into the company’s hiring playbook in an investor update, I asked him for permission to publish his email on our blog – “the Boom Way of hiring” is a great blue print for start-ups to take their recruiting processes to the next level.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hire professionals. For example, you can determine a term that requires shareholders to hire their own experts and then harmonize those numbers, or you could have a term that requires the members/shareholders to hire experts who then select a third expert to provide the valuation.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

What’s a non-emergency medical transportation business? Josh Komenda , CEO of VEYO, suggests that there’s a large population of those who need non-emergency medical transportation, especially for medically frail or elderly people in rural areas. Hiring the right people to work with and for you. Image via TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

My observation is that many companies become Game of Thrones with warring factions and competing interests. I know that bad apples in a company can bring down the productivity of everybody, which is why they need to be culled and why I recommend hiring for Attitude over Aptitude.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. I always push companies to hire “an operationally focused CFO” during this phase because in order to systematize you need somebody who brings economic rigor to decision making. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2021

An independent contractor (1099) doesn’t receive these protections, as employers who hire them don’t pay a portion of their taxes. Incorrectly identifying workers as exempt or non-exempt. If a non-exempt employee is treated as an exempt employee, they miss out on overtime or an hourly wage, which will result in wage theft.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. Our application tool will be free and will immediately compete with Peterson’s, Kaplan, Princeton Review, and other smaller players. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising. We are a startup and this is essential (and non-negotiable).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

The backdrop explained was that it was viewed that Korea has been tremendously successful at copying and perfecting other people’s technologies but in order to compete more effective in the future had to be more creative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

In fact, the considerations are not unique to software development – they apply almost as well to any product or service you have: Control of core competency. Don’t outsource your core competency. Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Technology level.

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Board Effect

JUNE 2, 2022

Simply put, a capacity building grant is a sum of money that a foundation offers to a nonprofit to work on new strategies, develop competencies, and improve processes and systems to improve efficiency. Nonprofits often use capacity building grants to hire consultants to assist them in improving programs or improving efficiency overall. .

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Although there are many collaboration tools (like Slack and Trello) available, they do have a learning curve that can be hard for non-technical folks. They also complain about managers favoring in-office staff, even if they are less competent. While teams take time to get up to speed, productivity can take a beating. Wrapping Up.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Also, the non-profit will start offering their program outside the juvenile detention centers. The students are thus trained to become top frontend developers ready to compete at an international level, and ready to work on real-life projects from the detention center. “It’s like hiring an agency at a freelancers rate.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

Chelsea started her first business when she was 12, and her first non-profit when she was 13. And she has just about completed 60 to 140 ( Ada is hiring !). Throw in a bit of wellness coach, and you have yourself a role for a renaissance person (or alternatively, someone who knows how to hire for their weaknesses).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

As a startup, especially with a non-technical background, you might have a plethora of questions, especially if you are planning to dive right into the mobile app development. Select The Right Technology Partner or Hire a Developer. On the other side, if you have a low-budget, then choosing or hiring a developer is another way to go.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” The large players like Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent historically would be more likely to simply copy a startup’s features than to hire their talent. like WeChat.). Competition. Sharing and cooperation is not yet part of the ethos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Show that you have and can continue to hire the right people to run the scaled business without you being everywhere and making every decision. Outsource what is non-strategic to optimize leverage. Smart entrepreneurs never outsource their core competency, and never rely on intellectual property they don’t own.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 5, 2022

Of course, businesses everywhere have continued to hire new employees since the pandemic hit, with some individuals forging new careers due to getting laid off in specific industries like hospitality. The trouble is that some of those firms are making potentially catastrophic legal mistakes with their new hires.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Anyone who has had the need for a lawyer understands the pinch of hiring competent legal help. Because most law firms charge between $250 and $700 per hour, it makes financial sense for some companies to hire a lawyer full time. Tip #2: Choose a non-traditional attorney. Tip #3: Hire from within.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. Companies struggle to compete while reconfiguring legacy distribution channels, pricing models and supply chains.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2016

Non-cyber security small-to-medium sized businesses are focused on creating value around their core competency, not cyber security. Typically, the first few key hires in IT are ones that will help “keep the lights on,” deal with password lock-outs and provision and configure network services and company laptops.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2016

This idea of flexible generalists hired early leads to another question: How do you then vet potential hires? If you aren’t an overly technical founder, it would be good to have a trusted resource in your network who can either give you referrals or can help you vet the technical competency of your target.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

#3- Hiring underprivileged people. One way that OhMy dot ca has found to do this is by hiring employees from underprivileged backgrounds. 8- By equitable hiring practice. 9- Giving to non-profits. 30- By hiring 50% locals. However, we have committed to hiring 50% of our workforce from the locals.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 30, 2012

Your Hired! Usually community service also encourages striking up relationships with strangers, where you are free to talk openly about hiring needs for your business as a conversation topic. Hire your customers. In otherwords, a dry cleaner competes with retailers who develop wrinkle free shirts/suits. Going To School?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2021

Yet my own experience, and a still relevant McKinsey survey , leads me to believe that non-cash motivators may be more effective in the long term than financial incentives. The fact is that you are in the people business—the business of hiring, training, and managing people to deliver the product or service you provide.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2019

While we all solve problems, managers and consultants are professionals — they’re hired and paid to do so. Leadership consultancy Zenger Folkman recently surveyed over 300,000 managers and found that problem solving was the second most important competency, regardless of function or level. Work in teams.

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