Over the last few weeks we've been talking about how to identify and hire top talent. Not an easy task at all....and frankly a VERY expensive task if you think about the costs associated with recruiting (paying your HR staff, interviewer time, candidate travel costs, agency fees, etc). So, you spend all this time and money building this team let's talk a little bit about how make sure they don'
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Posted by admin 33 days ago (http://venturefizz.com)Start Up: A Comedy Sitcom Pilot About One Unfortunate Entrepreneur
Posted by admin 33 days ago (http://charlespax.com)
A good friend of mine, Noah Rothman, is creating a comedy sitcom called Start Up. I encourage everyone to check out his kickstarter page for more information or help fund the project.
Pricing Product Complements
Posted by admin 33 days ago (http://aseidman.com)
37Signals recently launched an iPad app called Draft. Draft is a simple sketching application with built-in integration to Campfire, another 37Signals product. Now for the controversial part: Draft costs $9.99 while Adobe offers a similar app for free. This pricing strategy is a mistake.
A Boot Camp for the Next Tech Billionaires
Posted by admin 33 days ago (http://www.newsweek.com)
Calling all geeks! Do you have a hot idea for a start-up? If so, this boot camp where Silicon Valley meets 'American Idol' is for you. That is, if you make the cut. Sitting at the long trestle tables in Y Combinator's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters last January, the Weeblies felt wobbly. Back home at Penn State, the three undergraduates were alpha geeks, go-getters who'd capitalized on the u
Quora and Others Are Racing to Fill Gaps Left by Google
Posted by admin 37 days ago (http://online.wsj.com)
Several start-ups aim to allow people to pose and answer questions not easily found online. The competition to build a successor to Web search is heating up as a number of young companies seek to fill gaps they see with Google. One of the hopefuls, Quora, plans to announce its public launch after months of private testing.
How we built a startup in 54 hours
Posted by admin 37 days ago (http://www.coderholic.com)
Last weekend I attended the London Startup Weekend, a 54 hour event hosted at the IBM building on London’s Southbank. It was a fantastic event. I met loads of great people, had a lot of fun, and successfully launched a new website! Arianna, Pedro and Debbie have already written up great summaries of the event, so instead I’ll be focusing on how our team managed to build and launch our project,
I want to be Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud
Posted by admin 37 days ago (http://www.tawheedkader.com)
June has been a tough month for me. My last day at my day job is fast approaching and although Tout and Braintrust are both generating some revenues, its not close to where I want to be to feel financially secured. I've come to realize that quitting is easy. Accepting another a job offer is also easy.
How to Reach the Startup Community in Any City on Earth
Posted by admin 37 days ago (http://thestartupdigest.com)
Yesterday we announced a big change to StartupDigest and we want to announce it on our blog as well. We officially migrated Help a Startup Out to our new StartupDigest Classifieds site here. We did this because we collected feedback from readers (using KISSinsights) who told us that having two separate brands was confusing.