Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 10, 2021
Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. It means not only hiring, but training and measuring performance. It means mentoring less experienced team members, and quickly replacing incompetent staff members.
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OCTOBER 14, 2019
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Frank Addante
MAY 12, 2007
► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
A big trend in business these days is hiring freelancers or contract personnel for the duration of a project, rather than permanent staff. In addition, like an entrepreneur with a new business, you have to factor in all the indirect costs previously covered by employers, including training, health care, and time off for vacations.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. If a team member has a plan that is too ambitious and likely to set them up for failure, he or she needs your direct mentoring to dial it back. Instead, set long-term business objectives and develop a framework for the trajectory your team needs to get there.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 28, 2016
As startups grow from development organizations to a sustainable and repeatable business, processes must be documented, employees hired and trained and customer-support organizations built. Be a trustworthy advisor and mentor to others. Creating operational processes and procedures. Capitalize on your past industry experience.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 17, 2013
Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. It means not only hiring, but training and measuring performance. It means mentoring less experienced team members, and quickly replacing incompetent staff members.
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