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How to Build an All-Star Remote Technology Team

The Startup Magazine

Hiring a unicorn like that may involve pushing your search outside your region like hiring Ukrainian developers. This kind of companies, for example, can augment the teams behind successful startups in the Bay area while operating in Asia, Eastern Europe or South America. How to hire technology superstars?

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). About 18 months ago in early 2008 we hired an analyst (pre-MBA), but wanted to wait until after Summer to hire a post-MBA associate. He wanted to raise angel money.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America. Irony, hey?). In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company.

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Basic Accounting And Legal Aspects That Every Business Owner Should Know

YoungUpstarts

Lastly, when we hire our first employees, we should always do it with the appropriate documentation, in which there should not lack the specification that everything they create while working for us, on the level of intellectual property, belongs to the company.

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Twitter Link Roundup #95 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Interesting perspective on how Southwest Airlines hires employees – [link]. Global Web Design Trends: South America – [link]. Tips On Defining The Size of a Market for a Startup Business – [link]. Outstanding interview with Slicehost founders.Covers lots of startup issues – [link].

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a pure startup and haven’t raised any money – you might change the life of every person you hire. The Europe goal was shaped by three random things: My father is from South America and his native language is Spanish (although his father was from Romania and escaped oppression there).

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Why I’m Standing Today with My African American Friends, Family & Colleagues

Both Sides of the Table

My father is from South America and my family is Jewish. I felt so proud of our country’s achievement in 2008 that I remember hiring a babysitter and calling our dear friends – Steve Raymond & Jen Raymond – and asking if they would go out with us to a bar to watch the election results.