The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

DataRails , the financial analysis and reporting software startup, has announced the hiring of David Rosenberg as the company’s new VP of customer success. Goori herself came on board in October 2021, when DataRails significantly bolstered its executive team with a string of high-profile hires. DataRails has already raised $53.5

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As you find your footing and begin to scale, you might feel ready to hire a formal executive team. What’s right for one company may not make sense for another, but the goal is always the same — to hire talent that will ultimately help the business thrive. When is the right time to hire an executive team?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2021

As an example, I worked with Bill Gates early on, but I fear he may have failed without partners Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen. You will find that your team, partners, and vendors feel the same way. Gates was a software developer genius, but Ballmer upheld the marketing and business side. Paul Allen was the idea visionary.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

They had been introduced by my friend Brian Garrett, a partner at Crosscut Ventures and the ambition outlined in their deck seemed almost unbelievable, “to make wireless charging of phones (and other devices) as easy as WiFi” that I had to see it for myself. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. We grilled their IP attorneys.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

Let’s take a hard look at the key potential weaknesses of a visionary, and the value of an execution-oriented partner, which the authors call an integrator : Staying focused and following through. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. Visionaries tend to get bored easily. This can be disruptive, as they love to break the mold.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Use Contracts to Your Advantage Whether you’re hiring employees, working with vendors, or entering into agreements with partners, contracts are essential. For instance, non-disclosure agreements ( NDAs ) can protect confidential business information, and service agreements can clarify terms of service with clients or partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2021

There you can connect with thousands of potential executives and partners, or find a planned meetup in a city near you. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions. They want to share your satisfaction in success, maybe as a reward for their own mistakes and learning earlier in life in their own businesses. Supportive co-founder and executive positions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Get support from credible industry groups and partners. 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. Focus on a solution that is scalable world-wide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? The right answer for a good business partner today is neither of the above. Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology. Are you there? Martin Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

Every startup should have at least a couple of outside advisors who are not major investors or family members, anxious to talk to new investors and key new hires. These questions are the key ones in every due diligence effort, always done by accredited investors, but almost never done by key employees and new partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions. They want to share your satisfaction in success, maybe as a reward for their own mistakes and learning earlier in life in their own businesses. Supportive co-founder and executive positions.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Working closely with vendors is beneficial for many companies — for example, it’s cheaper to contract with a security vendor than to hire several new staff members, invest in security cameras and other equipment, and assume the costs of maintaining and replacing that equipment and keeping security positions staffed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen. How they see you deal with and talk about peers, partners, team members, and customers tells them what the real rules of conduct are for customer service. Don’t forget recognition for accomplishment and efforts.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. These studios have different metrics than startup studios whose limited partners are private family offices or venture capitalists. Firms asking for greater than 60% are actually hiring an employee rather than a founder.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. While the appearance matters, remember you are hiring the development firm primarily for its development skills, not its graphic design skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2020

Then it extends to the hiring process. Investors (and team members and partners) find that it’s more effective to assess an entrepreneur’s fit to these personal characteristics than it is to assess the real potential of an idea, or the probability of good luck. Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay grounded in reality.

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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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View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

I’m quite optimistic about the direction that this is headed based on the momentum of more diverse hiring in the junior and mid-level ranks of the industry. At a firm level, I think that getting multiple partners on the list is a great milestone as well. In 2009 Bessemer had the most Midas List partners with 6 investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Now they are partners. We hired outside experts. And that’s why uBeam is rightly focused on perfecting their product, innovating, hiring and building for the future not on responding to every criticism from those without details of what we’re actually doing. I have witnessed it working. I did not lose my hearing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

These have helped them build trust and confidence among team members, and effectively sell their message to partners, investors, vendors and customers. This means hiring the right people, providing training and tools, and improving systems to overcome challenges. This applies to suppliers and business partners as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2020

These have helped them build trust and confidence among team members, and effectively sell their message to partners, investors, vendors and customers. This means hiring the right people, providing training and tools, and improving systems to overcome challenges. This applies to suppliers and business partners as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

After years of trying to persuade Kara Nortman to become a partner at Upfront Ventures I can officially announce now that she’s joined us effective immediately. It is rare to find somebody who matches exactly what I’m looking for in a partner so when you find it you act: Academic rigor (Princeton undergrad, Stanford MBA).

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 9, 2025

Providing SEO services through a trusted white label partner builds client trust and retention. Exploring the Advantages of White Label SEO Services for Businesses White label SEO services enable businesses to scale their offerings without hiring additional staff or expanding their expertise in-house.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Then it extends to the hiring process. Investors (and team members and partners) find that it’s more effective to assess an entrepreneur’s fit to these personal characteristics than it is to assess the real potential of an idea, or the probability of good luck. Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay grounded in reality.

Technical Review 269

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Your human resource activities can be outsourced to: Independent HR consultants are professionals who can assist you with hiring, HR policies, and other decision-making. Finding and hiring new talent is one of the most important tasks for any HR department. To Whom Can You Outsource HR Tasks? Shortlisted candidates are interviewed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2021

The key here is to create a win-win partner situation for your investors. The same thing goes for incorporating your company, having key hires lined up, and facilities arranged as required. They don’t like surprises, so you should explain any possible issues first, in the best possible light, before being asked.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 2, 2024

By partnering with these agencies, employers can streamline recruitment processes, attract top talent, and build a workforce that drives success and growth. HR and Hiring Manager Preparedness Equip your HR team and hiring managers with the tools and training to source and select the best candidates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Be sure to hire and cultivate new talent with the right mindset. In addition to spreading the word internally, you need to create a dialogue externally with partners and customers. Get everyone involved, rather than count on a lonely inventor, or even a specialized group. Capitalize on free communal initiatives around you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth. Trying to save money by recruiting family members, or hiring only interns, is a bad risk. Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing. Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. Will consumers want to watch short-form mobile entertainment?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth. Trying to save money by recruiting family members, or hiring only interns, is a bad risk. Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing. Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services.

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