The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

There already was a lot of talent in Berlin, and it was relatively easy to hire. You want to create something that stays and adds value to people’s lives, both your customers and your employees. It was an important learning for us, that Germany, even though we started here, is not our only market. It’s like surfing.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 7, 2011

Right after this deal was done, we inked a deal with another distributor in Germany, as well as a distributor in Japan. I tried very hard to make the right decisions about distribution agreements, partners and employees, so we would not have a lot of backward movement. Ask probing questions. Check references.

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2013

Some of the best universities for entrepreneurs in Europe are in Germany – here are my personal favorites with regard to the tech industry: Hasso Plattner Institut. I’ve worked for different entrepreneurs, various startups and larger businesses as both an employee and partner. TU München. I did this by starting my own design and !eb

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Transformify

AUGUST 20, 2018

Transformify Recruitment CRM and Generate FS have joined forces to help employers hire top talent worldwide. To provide a solution to the business, Transformify Recruitment CRM and Generate have designed an end-to-end solution that tremendously cuts the costs and mitigates the risks associated with relocating employees to new countries.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

After running a culturally relevant marketing campaign, Indeed rose to number one in traffic and sales in Germany. Survey your employee base to find out if your values are authentic. Do they help your employees know how to act? Do they correlate with the experience you want to deliver?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

I counseled the department manager against hiring since she would be subject to personal challenges in selling to our partners in Latin countries. Thus, hiring decisions should be made carefully, after fully understanding local practices. Eventually I relented and she joined the group. HR rules are local.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2011

In my experience it is essential for the head of international to clearly define his needs, hire a professional to locate individuals and perform the initial screening. Thoroughly understand the specific laws relating to hiring and termination in each country where you plan to operate. Mistakes can be costly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2010

In my experience it is essential for the head of international to clearly define his needs, hire a professional to locate individuals and perform the initial screening. Thoroughly understand the specific laws relating to hiring and termination in each country where you plan to operate. Mistakes can be costly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I was 15th employee, I remember the hundred person party, the hundred customer party. I was bluntly honest as an employee, so I'm happy to continue with that reputation. Our sweet spot of customers that stick with us for a long time and use the product in the way that we kind of intended it is that 11 to 250 employee mark.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Even among recruiting leaders, it’s common for them to realize that their hiring process is failing but be unaware of which steps in the process are causing the problem. There are three different FPI approaches that organizations can use to identify the key “failure points” in any hiring process. ™ All Articles. financials.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Yet I wanted to write specifically about employees. In any company, but specifically in start-ups, you need the best employees. You will fail each and every time when you scrimp on your first hires. Actually scrimping on hires in general is doomed to fail. Therefore, I'm going to go ahead and write this post.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2022

With retail establishments in nations including the USA, India, Germany, and China being at all-time highs, the global wholesale market is projected to expand to a value of around $64 billion by 2025. . Choose the Right Employees. When hiring people for your business, it is critical to determine your business goals.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Managers realized that there’s little difference between employees working from home on the other side of town and employees working on the other side of the world. A globally distributed business model allows you to hire the best talent wherever in the world it is. Create a cohesive team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

In my experience it is essential for the head of international to clearly define his needs, hire a professional to locate individuals and perform the initial screening. Thoroughly understand the specific laws relating to hiring and termination in each country where you plan to operate. Mistakes can be costly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

I counseled the department manager against hiring since she would be subject to personal challenges in selling to our partners in Latin countries. Thus, hiring decisions should be made carefully, after fully understanding local practices. Eventually I relented and she joined the group. HR rules are local.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Yet nearly every major tech company or major company hiring tech people have open recs. But it maps to the trade school paradigm that exists in Germany (which isn’t perfect either). We have nearly 10% unemployment in this country and nearly 18% structural unemployment. Again, not for everybody. Ryan has a great track record.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 27, 2017

With Transformify CSR recruitment platform, companies can hire outstanding independent contractors, freelancers and regular employees to fill vacancies in their organization, whether as remote staff or office-based personnel. How it works? However, this is not the only problem solved by the CSR recruitment platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Hiring & Firing the CEO. Psychologist as the CEO of Employees – Everybody wants to work somewhere “that is not political&# but that place only exists in a mythical utopian island. Makes sure there is always enough cash in the bank.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I hired a senior exec from the building materials industry (we were a document collaboration company for the engineering & construction industry) who was also ex McKinsey. We hired people to run the UK and Germany. We had to ramp up our team quickly and ramp we did. He was to head up UK operations.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 22, 2020

Surely we will face difficult decisions about replacing human employees with robots. Employee trainings, virtual classrooms, VR powered travel and tourism, there are a lot of exciting opportunities in the AR/VR space right now. Entrepreneurs nowadays often need to turn to hiring developers to build their website or business idea.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

Once the team was together, they launched version 1, got some happy customers, raised a round of funding, and then soon realised that the two tech founders had embezzled more than half the round and funnelled it into their real company, which they had been secretly building in Germany the whole time. Employees can blackmail or extort you.

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Babbling VC

MARCH 31, 2011

You won't need to relearn everything about hiring and tax. Hire a good lawyer who's done this before to advise you as there are many stumbling blocks to overcome. You think you'll be able to hire better people? Stay where you are and don't do things "because everyone else is". You won't need to relocate yourself and your team.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2015

For example, it is customary in Germany to use Mr., Mrs., or Ms., Having an employee with a pre-existing network of local connections can help speed up the process of winning new business via referrals. followed by a colleague’s surname. After all, who wants to buy a “manure stick” for their hair? Building connections.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In France, the law mandates that companies provide employees with access to their payslips (as proof for retirement benefits) for 50 years, and this requires a layer of security and compliance that legacy document management companies didn’t provide. From there, the stars continued to align, as we addressed each challenge.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. In my last post, I mentioned that you should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition. The major thing that’s holding back Red Gate’s growth is our struggle to hire great people. Do it because you love small teams. Dying at 70?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 24, 2018

Most investing is local, most hiring is local, but very little buying is local. At my own company for example, we have had less success selling locally in Austin than we have had selling to companies in New York, San Francisco, Australia, Germany, Sweden, and even China! I don’t do my hiring through Indeed.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

We used different playbooks to scale, either hiring someone local, sending someone from HQ to set up a country, or acqui-hiring. I remember when BlaBlaCar launched in Germany. Internally, we also worked a lot on our general principles around the way we work for our employees, crowdsourcing them at a company offsite in 2013.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2012

The video above shows the largest model railroad in the world (Hamburg, Germany) – it took 500,000 hours to build. Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers – [link]. Impressive & generous benefits to families when a Google employee dies – [link]. – [link]. Is Busyness Bad for Business?

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

For them — and anyone else who wants to increase their employees productivity and sanity — lets take a look at some of the assumptions management makes regarding hours, output, efficiency, and production costs; and see how a century of industrial research has conclusively, consistently proven those assumptions wrong. Its ironic.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The night I decided to start the company, my wife and I were having dinner with the man who would be our first employee and our creative director for the first twelve years. The very thing that made them “professional” also made them forgettable and less likely to be hired again over someone else. Photo Credit: Scott Harris.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In Germany alone, there was something like 85 active funds in 2000. It's super hard to find the right employees for these businesses. There's a specific breed of employee who thrives in a start-up environment. There's a specific breed of employee who thrives in a start-up environment. Therefore there was a ton of VC's.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Scene 2 (Its way past pick up time from Little Blend school in Germany but Eddy is yet to be picked up by the nanny Steve left him for. And believe me, youd be saving more as you don’t even have to hire an office space. After fifteen minutes of waiting at the park, young Eddy thought he could probably walk alone to the bus stop.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

The babysitter my father hired had a highly effective technique for placating young boys, which was to let them slay monsters and win treasure in a fantasy world. Germany buys more board games per capita than any other country in the world! GAME #2: RUNEQUEST. This maps well onto entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. find/hire freelancers. hire low-cost international engineering talent. VWorker -Â find/hire freelancers. Demo Germany. Outlook plugin to search. Freelance Help. Amazon Mechanical Turk â?? set up any task and get answers. Freelancer â??

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2018

It helps existing and potential clients know what you do and what you stand for, and it ensures that employees know your values and can align their work with your mission.” Hire the right people (at the right time). This should be based on your core values — so first make those so abundantly clear that employees can recite them.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When I returned to Nigeria from Germany looking to create a dedicated (online) hotel booking agency for Nigerians, I wanted my company to communicate in the simplest terms possible what our value proposition was. We were bootstrapping the company’s funding, so we could not afford to hire a firm to help us come up with a company name.

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