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Olympic Lessons for Startup Life

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The following guest post is from Courtney Englert, Customer Success Intern 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. Sounds like a startup, right?

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Eucalyptus Systems CEO Marten Mickos Shares His Secrets Of Startup Success

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As an early executive at MySQL, he helped build the company into the world's most used open source database. MatchON Sports it was one of the biggest dot com companies in Finland and it went straight ( into) the wall and went bankrupt. They make mistakes all the time.". I made all these mistakes. when I was young.

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Startup Tips From College Dropouts: Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson and Disney

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Mark Zuckerberg – “The dynamic of managing people and being CEO in a company is a lot different than being college roommates with someone.”. Although it may be comfortable to start a company with your friends, it is a mistake, unless your friend(s) happens to be ideally suited to their role in your venture.

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This 28 Year Old Woman Co-Founded One Of The Most Successful YouTube Networks

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Sarah is a Co-Founder of one of the most popular of these networks, Big Frame , which boasts some of YouTube''s biggest stars, including: MysteryGuitarMan , Peter Chao and DeStorm. When people would ask me when I was a little kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would tell them ''a waitress,'' much to my mother''s chagrin.

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How To Avoid (Another) Horrible Boss

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Nearly everyone ends up with one or two bad bosses during their careers. I did this twice in my career and it allowed me to assess the people, culture and veracity of the company's value proposition before I joined full time. Although this tactic is not practical for everyone, it is a highly effective way to minimize career mistakes.

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How Pinterest, Tumblr, HootSuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly and Mashable Rapidly And Repeatedly Hire Great People

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Although this is a core competency that must be honed over time, there is a cadre of SaaS hiring tools that the world’s leading tech companies deploy to their advantage. No matter how rapidly a startup is growing, it can never afford to sacrifice employee quality as a means of achieving its hiring goals.

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