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Quick Tips For Hiring Your First Employee

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The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Hire for Swagger. What were the results?”.

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How to Configure Your Startup Team

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How you build out your team in the first few years can have a huge impact on the trajectory of your company. Quick summary: Be careful not to have too many co-founders. Without strong PMs you build crappy products that nobody needs or that real people can’t use. Don’t hire a homogenous team.

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Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos

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Establish A High Hiring Bar – You’re Creating An Enduring Culture. “I’d I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.”. As discussed in Hiring Entrepreneurs, the impact of each new hire during your startup’s early days is tremendous.

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A Dozen Team-Building Tips Inspired By The Dirty Dozen

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The classic phases of team-building, Forming, Storming and Norming were first identified by Bruce Tuckman in 1965. The interviews also help him assess whether or not each prisoner has an appropriate personality to become a productive member of a close-knit team. That is exactly what Major Reisman is forced to do in E.M. Think Again.

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10 Ways Startups Can Reduce Expenses in 2016

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The good news is we know what attributes successful startups tend to have in common: they produce a product or service that meets a specific need, they thrive on the uncertainly of startup culture, and they don’t run out of cash. Hire freelancers, temps, or college students. Consider a co-working space. Transfer debt balance.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

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Yet, despite his exceptional courtroom theatrics, you would be foolhardy to hire good old Johnnie to review your software cross-licensing agreement. A startup-oriented lawyer may not be able to convince a jury of a guilty man’s innocence, but they can guide your adVenture through the menacing legal shoals it will no doubt face.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Oh, you got me there right in the first question! In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. free weekly Infochachkie articles!