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7 Risks Of Not Leveraging Team Member Data Analytics

Startup Professionals Musings

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Data helps avoid predetermined (and often erroneous) approaches to solving your people problems.

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8 Startup Excesses Which Will Jeopardize The Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. Gray, titled “ Business Techniques for Growth.” For market changing products, build first a minimally viable product (MVP), and never build products for sale until you have real orders in hand. Hire real help and learn to delegate.

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Why You Need Tools And Analytics For Employee Metrics

Startup Professionals Musings

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Data helps avoid predetermined (and often erroneous) approaches to solving your people problems.

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How to Make Better Reference Calls

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Whether you’re considering hiring a new employee or as an investor whether you’re looking to do a background check on the founders of a company. Don’t worry about the fact that these are the references that the candidate has hand-picked – that’s part of the process. Ask for at least 5 references.

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

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He believes that the term “growth hacking” is misleading and potentially dangerous and in stead endorses good old fashioned online marketing techniques. His quip to suggest this is all a slight-of-hand, trickery dreamed up by marketing b *s is quite clever if misguided. I believe growth hacking is about all of this.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

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But now you can learn the origins first hand on this YouTube video as well as how to approach them, how they make decisions and what innovations they've introduced. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. Initially they are very hands on, this is baby nurse mode. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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5 Strategy Realities For Running Your Small Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Continuing to micromanage both as your business grows is the downfall of many entrepreneurs. He recommends some key techniques, learned by both of us the hard way, that every small business owner can and must deploy to achieve long-term sustainability and growth: Must be more creative and flexible to compete effectively.

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