Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. We hired a consultant to promote the book, allowing us to reach 14 different Amazon Bestseller lists and selling over 1,000 copies in the first 48 hours.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We brought in business, so we needed to hire quickly, and we brought in some people who were excellent, and actually some who were amazing, and then some who weren't so good. And that sounds like that might be actually quite difficult, especially without funding, but we basically hired one person at a time. We didn't have funding.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Delta’s President, Ed Bastian, took the time to chat with some of the people from my Leadership Atlanta class and we were all blown away. Ed also wasn’t shy about saying that he always tries to hire people smarter than him. ” “Leadership is not a popularity contest.”

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

They had a great managment team, A list VCs, great technology, excellent sales traction and market leadership in a very exciting space. Have not met anyone I wanted to hire who was willing to work for equity. Posted by: Atlanta Search Engine Optimization | April 16, 2008 at 07:38 AM. They looked like a sure winner. Good point.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2017

At the time of this writing I have just attended a Georgia Tech Foundation board meeting in Atlanta and am always there surrounded by achievers who exhibit similar energy. If phrased properly in the framework of high energy leadership, that can be smart delegation and not a sign of disinterest.

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David Teten

JANUARY 2, 2013

You can’t hire in courtesy and managerial competence; it has to flow from company management outwards. I’m traveling to Atlanta and Boston this month, so starting to plan my logistics. Recently (Monday, October 22), I had a quick trip to Atlanta for a Social Fortress board meeting.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2016

They write something that sounds good or is aspirational at best, but not something that they are prepared to deliberately create, nor something for which they’ve hired properly to achieve. If a leadership team truly values its core values, then it is critical to hire other leaders and team members who share those values.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Last night my good friend and marketing extraordinaire, Stephanie Critchfield , interviewed Danny Davis and I in a “fireside chat” on leadership at Digital Atlanta. The 8 things I learned from Danny Davis about leadership. If your company is broken, a new hire or a software fix isn’t going to help.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Last month was honored to be chosen by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as one of their Most Admired CEOs of 2017. During the process the ABC asked me to do a Q&A on leadership, and I thought I would share the interview: Atlanta Business Chronicle in July named our list of Atlanta’s Most Admired CEOs of 2017.

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Jeff Hilimire

JULY 1, 2013

During my Leadership Atlanta experience my classmates and I were able to spend time with CEO’s and Presidents of major companies in Atlanta. Leadership leadership atlanta' A group of us, usually 20-30 of my classmates, would have an hour to pick the brains of these great leaders. a “job”).

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

4 – I’ve hired for experience rather than qualities. I no longer make this mistake, but I used to put a resume above all else when hiring people. I’ll hire a person with the right attitude and passion before someone with the perfect resume all day long. #5

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool; and the third with Mark Feinberg , CEO of Uruut. My first client, CoreNet Global, hired me right out of the gate and they were a client for nine years which is something I am very proud of. What’s your morning routine?

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 6, 2014

Master the “slow to hire, quick to fire” philosophy. If there was ever a time to really embrace “slow to hire” (take your time to pick the right people) and “quick to fire” (when someone isn’t a good fit, don’t wait months to make a decision on removing them) we would have been much better off.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

There are certain things that only a CEO can be involved in whether it be investor issues, partner discussions, escalating customer issues, and executive hiring and coaching. Hire more, spend more, achieve more. Bonus question: Why Atlanta? Atlanta is great for some things and lacks in others.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I've also been spending a lot of time on the phone with my family and my mom in Atlanta. If you make a mistake, you can make the test better or you can start a new company in the process of developing the product, and the people you hired, and the people that you trained, all those people have new skills. Progress was made.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Last year, I co-founded a nonprofit in Atlanta with Adam Walker called 48in48. We held our first event in Atlanta in October and it was amazing. We hired our first full time staffer, Carole Williams , who started as 48in48’s Executive Director on January 1st. Glad you asked :).

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In 2017 I won the Most Admired CEO award as presented by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. We have a lengthy and difficult hiring process because bringing the right team members into our company is one of the most important things we do ( culture add , not culture fit.) Photo by Benjamin Child on Unsplash.

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Earlier this year I attended the Chick-fil-A Leadercast event in Atlanta. Hire great new team members, a few of your other ones leave. I’ve written a couple posts about that event, including To be at your best you have to be in the right position. Make progress in this area, that area breaks.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 22, 2020

There are mean people everywhere, and some work at brands and hire agencies. People have different motives, culture and values aren’t at the top of the list when hiring or managing the team, and signals from leadership show that individual results are more important than team wins. We do two things at Dragon Army to combat this.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

I don't know if you know Frances, but she's just a remarkable teacher around new leadership principles. And that was $100,000 that came in to bootstrap Chicago and Detroit and Atlanta. They hire local chefs, but they may take over a stadium kitchen. Frank Barbieri : Yeah, I'm going to put a plug-in for one more.

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