crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

The restaurant business, traditionally a hothouse for entrepreneurism, suffered greatly in the current downturn but is rebounding, with industry-wide sales trending upwards over 2009 and restaurants hiring again, albeit slowly. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 15, 2006

It is about finding and hiring the key people who know how to scale a back end infrastructure, who can create and deliver innovative product, and who know how to leverage word-of-mouth to create a huge opportunity. Just remember Billy Beane and his Oakland A’s. The post The Arms Race for Talent first appeared on BeyondVC.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 15, 2006

It is about finding and hiring the key people who know how to scale a back end infrastructure, who can create and deliver innovative product, and who know how to leverage word-of-mouth to create a huge opportunity. Just remember Billy Beane and his Oakland A’s. The post The Arms Race for Talent appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

and in the early days of the national school lunch program, when it first was established in the 1940s, it was really a lot about hiring local people to cook onsite at schools. It was something that they sort of had meal programs because they were supposed to, but it really wasn't until the last couple.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the city’s tax break deal included provisions that encourage “good faith efforts” to hire locals, there is no binding agreement compelling Twitter to do so and, not surprisingly, the company appears reluctant to engage in the kind of substantial outreach that would prepare Mid-Market residents for entry-level positions in its workforce.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. Coats says a final bit of inspiration actually came from reading “Moneyball,” which describes how the Oakland A’s used “Sabermetrics”—essentially a whole new dimension of player statistics—to upend 100 years of conventional wisdom about evaluating baseball players.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. While we're watching these announcements on the news that other industries are surge hiring, can we matchmake? When the pandemic hit, Irma and Jake turned their attention to another problem.

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