The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

The path to success is far from easy, which is a lesson Quattro Development’s founders, Rob Walters and Mike Liyeos, know all too well. After founding their real estate development firm during the Great Recession in 2008, the duo received a crash course in perseverance. At first, funding seemed like a nonissue.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Unless you have a solid background in web design and development, you probably need a professional web designer who can create the best website for your business. As you can see, developing a website can be a complicated process. In such a case, be sure to know the web designer’s creative process before hiring them.

Colorado 264

Colorado Web Design Technical Review 264

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions.

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Partner Software Review CTO Hire Cofounder 385

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

Every company and startups needs marketing experts, who are skilled and knowledgeable in the development of marketing programs, content creation, lead generation, and the utilization of social media. Software Development Professional. Staffing Professional. Staffing requirements come and go in every company, big or small.

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Startup Angel Investor Social Media LLC 410

TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

TechEmpower has been instrumental in developing chatbots like these, utilizing generative AI to sift through internal documents and user manuals, enabling them to provide precise answers to customer service questions. It also facilitates rapid prototyping, allowing for quicker iterations and thus shorter development cycles.

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Generative AI CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Review 297

Steve Blank

JUNE 20, 2022

How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? I just had coffee with Anthony, a friend who was just hired as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a large company (30,000+ people.) This post previously appeared in Fast Company.

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CTO Technical Cofounder CTO Hire Incubator 368

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. You should never hire internal or external staff based solely on what they can do now. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Don’t over-manage remote workers, but don’t expect them to manage your business.

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Cost Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder 346

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2021

The CEO must focus on key management team hires and assume a few mistakes which need to get fixed. A great hire can make a company, but a single bad one can break it. The CEO is the check and balance on the constant parallel pushes for more development, more marketing, and more growth. Craft an operational plan and make it work.

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Exit Strategy Leadership Founder Networking 407

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2024

One increasingly popular strategy is to hire a fractional chief marketing officer (CMO). Early-stage startups often operate with tight budgets, making it impractical to hire a full-time CMO. Hiring a full-time CMO, according to Salary , can cost your startup around $360,672 a year. Why are CMOs paid so much salary?

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B2B Hiring Salary Early Stage 148

VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2025

Collaboratively develop an idea focused on personal or known daily/weekly problems: Brainstorm with your co-founders, as the initial idea often comes from one person but benefits from team input. If a potential hire doesn’t increase the company’s average intelligence, it’s a mistake.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?

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Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Review 260

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Don’t let one incident, observation, rumor, or misunderstanding cause a rush to judgement, or hiring mistake.

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Analytics Hiring Open Source Employee 303

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. Idea people are so bright that they don’t see the need to leverage the capabilities of others, or hire people smarter than they are in any given domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2022

New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. In fact, they need an early focus on developing their moral compass, as well as setting the right ethical tone.

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Software Review Offshore Entrepreneur Leadership 291

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With senior management support, all of these can be developed and administered by your HR team. Hire only people with positive and can-do attitudes. It’s easy to spot negativity and complainers, which should be a major red flag in every hiring process. Remove or retrain repeat offenders on a timely basis.

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Employee Salary Hiring Stock 371

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

You may be the main problem, insisting on making every decision, and hiring cheap helpers rather than help. Inadequate focus on hiring and people development. Where hiring seems to always be associated with a crisis, I rarely see an adequate assessment of candidate skills, culture, and future potential.

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Technical Review Metrics Social Media Channel 306

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2021

Gates was a software developer genius, but Ballmer upheld the marketing and business side. Technical entrepreneurs, in particular, who build an innovative product, often don’t realize that building a successful business requires an equal focus on hiring the right people, providing the right tools and resources, and communicating effectively.

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Entrepreneur Angel Investor Partner Software Development 341

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. You should never hire internal or external staff based solely on what they can do now. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Don’t over-manage remote workers, but don’t expect them to manage your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Apple pulled ahead of other mobile phones in its early days largely because it cultivated an ecosystem of software developers who created iPhone apps to meet every consumer niche and need. Select new hires with attention to values. You need to be part of a larger ecosystem.

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Software Review Algorithm Global IPO 355

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Business success is all about having the best team, yet the average entrepreneur has little prior experience with hiring people and building top-notch teams. Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service.

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Cost Hiring Matching Internet 260

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

You alone will never find enough hours in a day to keep with all the challenges of sales, support, and scaling the business, in addition to developing and delivering your solution. Actually, building and nurturing the right team is the hard part, requiring communication, hiring, and leadership.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Technical Review Angel Investor 432

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. By process I mean all the tools that allow companies and government to scale repeatable execution. The consultants reorganize the company (surprise!),

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Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 322

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Leadership brand development. Investors want organizations that manage people talent and growth, through good hiring, performance feedback, development on the job, and building commitment. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation Leadership 323

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Cash flow can be drastically reduced by working out of your garage.

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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Salary Angel Investor 310

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

This is one of the key roles in a growing new company which can benefit from someone who clearly has experience dealing with people – whether it be hiring and firing, assisting in performance reviews, or dealing with the day-to-day crises of any growing business. Software and hardware development architects and designers.

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Advisory Board Dividend Angel Investor Cofounder 368

YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

Of course, to make yourself available, you normally plan to hire several people along the way, who would be helping out with different initiatives. Or, in other words, who are the first 10 people you would hire for the business. Software development? This practical strategy exercise is extremely valuable for many reasons.

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Distribution Vertical Business Plan Software Developers 264

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leadership brand development. Investors want organizations that manage people talent and growth, through good hiring, performance feedback, development on the job, and building commitment. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Outsourcing allows small companies to get professional services at affordable rates compared to developing in-house talent. Experienced financial experts are expensive to hire in-house. Small businesses can hire such firms and get quality services on a pay as you go basis. Financial services. Final thoughts.

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Startup Technical Review Salary Hiring 238

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Minimize permanent hiring and customized operational facilities. In this age of the gig-economy, you can more quickly hire and manage freelancers, contract workers, and contract operations. Develop a product line and add alternate channels. Facilitate rapid growth through contracted resources.

Merger 386

Merger Acquisition Software Review Social Media 386

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. Startups now had tools that sped up the search for customers, ensured that what was being built met customer needs, reduced time to market and slashed the cost of development.

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This article explores the pressing challenges in nursing home safety and shines a light on the groundbreaking solutions that forward-thinking entrepreneurs are developing to protect residents and empower their families. For entrepreneurs navigating these challenges, understanding the broader impact of their innovations is vital.

Technical Review 158

Technical Review Startup Software Review Algorithm 158

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Photo by Jakub Zerdzicki from Pexels Going beyond hiring security guards, it’s also important for startups to implement the right strategies that prevent attacks through their physical assets. Verify the people you hire As your startup expands, you must hire more people for the team.

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Security Technical Review Software Review Startup 167

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution. Broad product offerings require too much infrastructure. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Here are three key cost elements of just the viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists. Develop viral content. As a result of the rising popularity of viral campaigns, the cost of developing one has increased significantly, and the increased ‘viral clutter’ has made it more difficult to stand out from the crowd.

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Viral Marketing SEM Campaign 348

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This allows the studio to develop processes, well-organized development teams, and growth plans. Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers.

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Incubator Startup Software Development Software Developers 188

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Since employees have been working remotely, organizations have seen a significant increase in productivity and communication, making employers more open toward hiring or partnering with people that are located throughout the US and all over the world. It’s a win-win. It’s a win for both sides.

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Technical Review Cofounder Leadership Employee 275

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 4, 2023

Hire the Right People One of the most effective ways to reduce employee turnover is to ensure that you are hiring the right people for the right job. company spends approximately $4,000 and 52 days to hire a new employee. company spends approximately $4,000 and 52 days to hire a new employee.

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