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Hired a friend...may need to fire him : startups
I need some advice. I've been working alone on a startup for the past two years and got some funding (to last two more years). I wrote that I'd hire an engineer into the plan and hired a friend. He's been working with me for about 5 months. From the start he asked me to match his salary at his previous job in marketing (I said no and paid him 90k instead of 110k), he wants stock, got me to buy him a computer, and has taken a couple vacations all ready. I feel like he's ...
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Tips for Hiring Your First VP Sales at a Startup
Explore SalesSchool by SalesCrunch (Feb 16 2012)
When do you hire that first VP of Sales at your Startup? Who should that person be? Are you looking for that seasoned professional that has done it all at every type of company, or is it better to find that eager fresh face ready for a bit of adventure and trailblazing? Steve Blank, “father of customer development”, veteran of Silicon Valley and author of “Four Steps to the Epiphany, shares what he has learned in his 20 years as a serial entrepreneur and founder of numerous startups. Transcript:
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Looking To Hire And Keep Great Innovators? Focus On The 3 Rs
Explore Tue, 01/10/2012 (Feb 16 2012)
Developing a culture of innovation depends on having and keeping the right people, and you do that by recruiting, retraining, and rewarding. * 5 Notes * 500 Tweets * 9 Likes The following is an excerpt from Relentless Innovation: What Works, What Doesn’t--and What That Means for Your Business by Jeffrey Phillips. Innovation relies on people more than other processes. This reliance on employees, management, and executives in an organization requires that the “right” people are attracted, and then
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6 Quick Tips For Landing That Startup Dream Job
Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Feb 12 2012)
My startup, HubSpot, has done a fair amount of recruiting/hiring over the past year (the team has grown by over 100%, despite the down-turn in the economy). Along the way, Iâve found some âpatternsâ to the recruiting that we do and the kind of people that end up joining us. Iâm going to stay away from the overly obvious stuff (mostly because I have no idea what the obvious stuff actually is). Iâm also going to assume that youâre already smart and passionate and all the other trimming
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Impressive growth comes from impressive culture
Explore Savage Thoughts (Feb 12 2012)
We’ve been putting together a video series at Wistia called How They Work. In it, we go around and interview inspiring businesses about their company culture. Each How They Work is about three minutes long. They are designed to capture just a few of those sweet, sweet nuggets of culture that are drivers of success. Clover Food Lab is the most recent company to be featured on How They Work. In the last year Clover has expanded from one food truck and 10 employees to five trucks, two restaurants,
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6 Tips to Create the Best Possible Work Environment
Explore upandrunning.bplans.com (Feb 10 2012)
If you are the manager of a small business, then you know how difficult it can be sometimes to properly manage human resources. Organizing interviews, talking salary and mediating employee conflict are some of the less-glamorous aspects of the job. However, it’s also one of the most important facets of maintaining a happy and stable workplace. Developing a positive company culture may be one of the best investments you will make as a small-business manager. According to a Gallup Organization’s s
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Avoid The Hire Fast, Fire Fast Turnover
View all 3 articles » Explore Rock The Post Blog (Feb 7 2012)
Recruiting and hiring a new employee is not considered an everyday activity for companies and organizations. However, it is a consistent process. What does an employer need to remember during the recruitment process? When hiring the right person you must ensure you have the right and updated job description for your business. In fact, the job description / job analysis is one of the most important subjects to be clear on because it provides information and answers a lot of questions to people in
How To Avoid Hiring The Wrong Person For Your Startup - mashable.com
Startup Hiring: 3 Ways to Look Beyond the Resume - mashable.com
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Make Your Employees Motivated Missionaries
As your company grows, you can't plan for revenue growth alone. You need to plan for leadership and culture growth as well. Here's how Stella & Dot does it. At Stella & Dot, we are in the midst of rolling out our annual strategy for our new fiscal year to our employees. As a management team, before rolling out our 2012 company goals, we did what every management book would tell you to do. We worked backwards from a three-year plan, we focused in on 2012, we broke it down by function and provided
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10 Things Every Startup Founder (And Employee) Should Know
Explore Business Insider (Jan 31 2012)
1/11 Congrats! You have an idea. BUT....Don't join an incubator so you can find a technical co-founder. If you can't find someone to code, learn. All it takes is some logic. Try Codecademy or Udacity. So now you need money to fund your idea. Try angel investors first. They are usually entrepreneurs who have sold their businesses and can mentor new startup guys. If they want to give you money, you get a check right away. Unless they have
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8 Tips for Nailing Your Next Startup Job Interview
Explore mashable.com (Jan 29 2012)
Alex Berg is the Chief Product Officer of Bonanza and Bags Bonanza. Bonanza is a marketplace focused on creating a browse-friendly experience that helps you discover unique items. Prior to Bonanza, Alex served in leadership positions with Wetpaint, Expedia and Blue Nile. While unemployment remains high, some sectors are hiring at a breakneck pace. New startups are cropping up in cities across the U.S., with hotspots emerging in New York, Chicago, Austin, Seattle and, of course, San Francisco and
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Tips on Hiring Quality Employees for a Startup
View all 2 articles » Explore Tech Startup Jobs (Jan 29 2012)
Everyone knows when starting a business, one of the most crucial parts of the startup process is finding the correctemployees to help run your business smoothly. It’s no secret that every small business owner starts off at a disadvantage when compared to the bigger companies in a certain niche. That, however, doesn’t mean they can’t find the high quality employees they seek to help keep their business afloat. So, small business owners: What is it that you look for in an employee when you are a s
Tips on Hiring Quality Employees for a Startup - Local Business Directory
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Business Essential You Might Be Missing
A Silicon Valley CEO tells how he learned that company values aren't a nice add-on. They're mandatory to holding your business together. By Jessica Stillman | @EntryLevelRebel | shutterstock images Tweet You've got the idea for a company and posess the necessary skills. Maybe you even have money, co-founders and a solid business plan, but one Silicon Valley CEO says there’s one additional, essential ingredient your new company might be missing: values. You may think of things like mission, value
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Why being an early stage VC is like being a college football coach
Explore - This is going to be BIG! (Jan 27 2012)
He tried to generalize and say that's why all the college coaches are the fresh-faced energetic types and why the NFL coaches look like they've been doing nothing but pouring over video at a desk for 90 hours a week with coffee and a donut. I don't have the stats to prove or disprove that particular point, and I try to avoid generalizations, but what is certainly clear to me that the most important thing in college football as a coach is being able to recruit the talent. You have to be able to w
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The Weigh-In: What's The Best Way To Motivate Your Employees?
Explore FastCompany.com (Jan 24 2012)
Motivation is a hot topic year-round, but particularly in January, the month of fresh starts, checklists, and lofty goals. It's the time of year we try to figure out how to prod our employees to excel, to hit and surpass ambitious targets. Happy, motivated employees are, simply, good for business. "Research shows that when people work with a positive mind-set, performance on nearly every level--productivity, creativity, engagement--improves," Harvard Business Review reported in its January/Febru
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11 Places to Find Startup Talent
Explore Small Business News, Tips, Advice (Jan 24 2012)
Recruiting startup talent can be a daunting task, especially if you have no idea where to look. You might be on a budget, but you want to make sure you have a qualified pool from which to choose. So where do you start? There are a few members of the YEC community well versed in such matters. businessman searching We asked members of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invitation-only nonprofit organization comprised of the country’s most promising young entrepreneurs, this question: “What o
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