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How to Configure Your Startup Team

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I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. How you build out your team in the first few years can have a huge impact on the trajectory of your company. So I naturally spend much time with the companies in which I invest helping them: recruit.

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6 Pain Points Any Fast-Scaling Startup Needs to Know

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So you’ve finally got your startup up and running. But as you have probably realized at this point in your startup journey, the learning process is constantly changing as your startup reaches new stages. The next stage after a successful seed round is to start proving that your business model can scale. Scared yet?

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6 Hiring Lessons from Vince Lombardi

InfoChachkie

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. Success is like anything worthwhile.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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They’re essential in helping us get our jobs done because they specialize in something we do not. And a key point is that when it comes down to “negotiations&# you need to turn up your personal heat and dial back the middle man. I said, “If I start with your position I have nowhere to go but down. Middle Men.

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10 Ways Startups Can Reduce Expenses in 2016

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We can’t give you a recipe for success, but here are 10 ways to lower your startup’s expenses and free up capital in 2016. Hire freelancers, temps, or college students. Your startup may require a few full-time employees, but hiring freelancers, temps, or college students for specific tasks can considerably reduce payroll expenses.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

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!

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

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.