Employee Hiring Startup 
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 3, 2022
Startup investors tell me they invest in a new venture with a higher caliber of people, rather than the product or service, and I agree. Of course, it’s no surprise that most entrepreneurs don’t have a background in hiring teams, and don’t have a budget for training or human resource consultants. Be patient when filling open positions.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 4, 2020
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. It’s no wonder that 45 percent of startups fail in the first five years, and an even smaller percentage ever see a return for their years of effort.
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2022
How the leaders of your company handle adherence to the spirit as well as the letter of the law will be seen by all employees, customers, and investors. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions. Ethics and the view of personal boundaries should be explored fully. Carry minimal historical baggage.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 22, 2020
Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Early stage burn rates over $50K per month, or a runway of less than six months may indicate an inefficient or desperate startup.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 23, 2022
Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business.
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 4, 2023
Perhaps it won’t be wrong to say these staggering numbers are a wake-up call for organizations to take employee retention seriously. Otherwise, they will (sooner or later) experience the resource drain, high overhead costs & low employee productivity. What Is Employee Turnover? So, let’s get started.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
One of the most stressful and unanticipated challenges that comes with starting a new business is hiring and managing employees. While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required.
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