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Last Chance for Summer Sale Prices

Startup Lessons Learned

To give you a sense of how we’ll do that, we’re introducing you to three of our speakers—all of whom are appearing for the first time at The Lean Startup Conference, and all of whom have advice you can put to work today. Note that summer sale pricing for the conference ends on Monday night, so register now for the best deal possible.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10: The most proven way to hire well

Austin Startup

It is all about how you hire the best and the amazing impact doing so will have on your culture. And my answer always is, “Recruiting”. Recruiting has to be a top-three priority for any CEO, for any size organization. Brant and I came up with a process for recruiting that was so obvious in hindsight but yet is so rarely done.

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Hiring Executives: If You’ve Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good?

Ben's Blog

The biggest difference between being a great functional manager and being a great general manager—and particularly a great CEO—is that as a general manager, you must hire and manage people who are far more competent at their jobs than you would be at their jobs. So, with no experience, how do you hire someone good? Probably none.

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

Both Sides of the Table

As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

When you look through the list , you’ll see big names that we’re very pleased we landed, epic companies we really want to hear from, and people we’re particularly excited to present because they have incredible stories to share--and you won’t hear them anyplace else. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. If outward facing, they will attend important sales calls and speak to the technology strategy and vision. They seek the 80/20 economical solution, present options, and discuss tradeoffs. “A

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. The first part is the hardest part: hunting for a programmer. If you have a friend who is a recruiter then ask them to tell you what they recommend that will not cost anything. Be sure to post your opportunity here.