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Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Need High-Tech Partners

Startup Professionals Musings

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team. Spend time informally with candidate peers and former employers.

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8 Tactics For Every Entrepreneur To Manage Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team. Spend time informally with candidate peers and former employers.

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8 Ways To Stay Competitive In Today’s Technical World

Startup Professionals Musings

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team. Spend time informally with candidate peers and former employers.

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8 Keys To Keeping Up With Technology In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team. Spend time informally with candidate peers and former employers.

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Interview with Elizabeth Cholawsky, HG Data

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We're a big data company, where we look at all the information available worldwide, including documents, job postings, and anything you can publicly get your hands on, and from that, we distill the technology stack of a company. We distill that information with very high accuracy.

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8 Keys To Attracting The Right Technical Co-Founder

Startup Professionals Musings

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team. Spend time informally with candidate peers and former employers.

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Startups Today Need Anticipatory Customer Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Self-service technologies, social media, and smart phones have created a new set of expectations for high-tech consumers today. I found a good summary of these new expectations in a book just published by Micah Solomon, “ High-tech, High-touch Customer Service.” You probably won’t get a second chance.