Questions regarding practices of recruiting new employees for the business.
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How to Assess Integrity of a Potential Hire?
Warren Buffet says, "Hire people based on Passion,Intelligence and Integrity." People's passion is visible in the first meeting, and intelligence comes out in a couple of hours in a discussion, but ...
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How does option pool size at the time of incorporation impact valuation and funding
Suppose someone needs to incorprate a C-corp, for a high tech high growth business.
How does option pool size at the time of incorporation impact valuation and funding. Or it only matters how ...
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Options for hiring Indian workers directly
My core aim is to hire people directly in India (Delhi) and spend a lot of time there myself (I am a British person with a British passport).
I am interested in knowing what are the best options for ...
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How to hire /recruit online for an online based company?
Specifically
•How did you find them? (craigslist-social networks-newspaper ads- etc)
•How did your interview them? (Phone/Skype video chat etc)
•How did you get passed the skepticism barrier? ...
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Any reliable site where *hardware* engineers can be hired for small (work-from-home/telecommute) projects?
For software hackers/developers there are many.
However, I need a hardware guy (or girl?) for a relatively small project.
Is there a site where I can search for people and see ranks, recommendation, ...
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When is it wise to start hiring other programmers?
I'm a programmer and a student and I've got lots of ideas/proposals etc for projects. At what point do I start hiring other programmers to help out?
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Tips for hiring a freelancer programmer?
I'll be writing my own web-site soon, and some parts of it I plan to outsource to developers (either people I know, or if I won't find any - developers from "freelancers sites").
Has anyone who ...
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What's the legal framework for a US company (Delaware LLC) to hire a full-time remote developer (e.g. India, Sri Lanka)?
We don't need a one-shot collaboration (see elance.com, odesk.com) but a long-term remote developer.
We don't know, legally speaking, how to proceed and which are the needed steps.
Thank you
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What are the pros and cons of employees that work remotely?
What are the considerations as we consider employees that would work remotely? I'm particularly thinking about technical positions (programming, web site maintenance) that are remote due to geography ...
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1099 limitations of how much work you can give a contractor. Need some help with that
I think I am pretty good (having dealt with tons of contractor developers) at staying within independent contractor rules and keeping the Labor Department at bay, when it comes to using ...
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Hiring an in-office writer
I am in the process of moving my home website business into commercial office space because I need to hire an employee (or two) to help with all of the work.
I need to hire a writer - but the person ...
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How does section 409A impact how startups pay new hires?
In 2004, Congress passed a law that changed how deferred compensation was taxed. If a compensation package satisifies the rules in Section 409A then when stock is used as compensation, it is taxed ...
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When do I need to register a company for my start up
I have an idea for a start up but would like to get a POC solution developed for feedback purposes before I spend time and money on the full product development.
Since I cannot develop the POC myself ...
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Would you hire offshore developers?
What's your opinion? Should US-based startup hire offshore web developers to reduce costs? Is it worth it?
How would you find them? How much would you pay them per hour of work?
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To reject or to ignore?
I think we are all faced with this issue: we got an application from someone and we don't want to accept it. The most typical case is for employment. In my project I get many more types and very ...
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Hiring a Commercial Office Cleaner
Has anyone hired a commercial cleaner in the past? If so, how did you choose the right cleaning company? What was important for you when looking for a commercial cleaner? Also, what where the ...
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Do I hire a part time programmer or consultant
So here's the deal..I have a developed product and for the next few months all I need is someone to support me with a presales call if necessary and or keep my demo and infrastructure going until I ...
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Where to find SR developers to join your start up?
Though I have come across many developers, I still cannot find where there might be a place where Senior developers who love to work in start ups can be found and who understand financial constraints ...
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Startup CFO contract / stock compensation?
I am looking for a sample contract for a CFO position in a startup company. Also, What is an appropriate amount of compensation to give a CFO in terms of stock.
Thanks!
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Where can I run a background check on a potential hire?
This field seems really shady, so searching for "background check" online is pretty disappointing. Any suggestions?
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Any Recommended Job Posting Sites for Startup Leadership (CMOs, VPs, etc.)
We're doing some hiring at a very high level for a VP Marketing candidate and I'm aware of the general advice that it's best to network into folks for roles like these (we had lots of success doing ...
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What qualification and/or skills should I look for while hiring a web designer?
I am about to launch a website, which I got created through a freelancer. However, I am not very pleased with freelancer's performance and plan to hire someone full-time to make required iterations in ...
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What to look for in a Chief Operating Officer?
What traits/requirements should we look for in a successful COO? (We are in software development)
As someone who would maximize the output of our development teams, our COO would oversee multiple ...
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How to outsource marketing / sales
First of all I know that "sales and marketing" is my business it's not something to outsource.
However I'm in a different situation:
I don't have budget and the long-term commitment position to ...
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How Do I Hire/Find A Knowledgable Ghost Writer For My Firm's iPhone Blog?
How Do I Hire/Find A Knowledgable Ghost Writer For My Firm's iPhone Blog?
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Hire or outsource web design?
When building a website in a bootstrapped startup, is it better to hire a web designer or outsource the work? All of the founders are coders and don't excel in web design. Apart from that, if the ...
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Should I put my “startup” experience on my resume?
I have a similar question to this one regarding putting your "startup" on your resume. I have a full time job and started a small company on the side. My startup isn't a product company - I've been ...
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Can one person do both Marketing & Sales/Business-Development jobs?
Context: We are a small 3-developer company that sells Windows desktop software for small businesses on our website.
We believe that we need both:
"Marketing" - i.e. one-to-many interactions, e.g. ...
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How do you tell if he/she is a great marketing candidate?
What are the methodologies you use to determine if a person would make a great marketer?
For instance, I may be looking for someone who has great instinct about what the market wants and able to ...
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Which is more difficult to hire, techie or marketing?
I know it's dependent on the employer's background, but in general is more difficult to hire great marketing staff or product developers?
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How is hiring and relocation handled for non-local job candidates of a venture-backed startup?
I am interesting in moving out to another city to work at a promising startup, particularly one with venture funding and user traction.
How do venture-backed startups generally handle candidates who ...
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How do you recruit enough 'top talent' for your company?
For many organizations that have achieved some level of success, effectively growing the staff, without compromising the overall quality of who you bring on board, is a critical challenge. What do ...
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Finding website developers for multi-site e-commerce integration
I am associated with a number of electronic bulk suppliers who have their own website.
I plan to develop a site that shall work as search engine similar to cheapflights.com where they search for ...
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How to select a VP of Sales and Marketing partner
I've been working solo on my startup for longer than I'd care to admit. I'm a coder w/ a fleshed out website/webservice that's finally realized that I might actually need sales people.
I'm thinking ...
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Argh! Not knowing how to program holds me back
I have experience in running a business, in marketing, research, strategy, customer service, business development, and I have some very important ideas that I want to transform into businesses. ...
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What solutions are there to removing medical insurance as a barrier to startup hiring?
In the US, medical insurance is tied to the employer in the vast majority of cases. Paying for an employee health plan is beyond the means of many startups. Founders are often willing to take the ...
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What kind of skills should I look for in a Head of Marketing?
IT used to be said that half of the money you spent on advertising was wasted - but you couldn't tell which half (bonus points to anyone who know who originated that). Online marketing is different, ...
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What Questions Should I Ask When Interviewing at a Startup?
The ten years I've worked since graduating college have been for companies with more than 40,000 employees. I am being interviewed by a startup. The job seems to suit me and I am ready for the ...
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How to set up sales office in the US?
If, for example, I have a company headquartered outside the US and going to work with US companies.
What is the best way? Set up sales office in the US or hire independent sales person?
What kind of ...
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What do I need to know about hiring an intern?
My bootstrapped startup (Textaurant) needs some help with market research. Since we're so close to two of my alma maters (undergrad is ~1 mile, grad is ~5 miles), I figured I would reach out to their ...
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Build in-house or outsource?
I'm working with a SaaS business with a non-technical founder/CEO and am looking for pros and cons for (1) building the software in-house vs (2) outsourcing version 1.0 to a consulting firm.
From ...
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When hiring a consultant, what criteria do you use to evaluate them?
Over the years, I have had mixed results with hiring consultants for various jobs. I used to think that if they were referred, then that was good enough but that's not as consistent as I would like. ...
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What states are the best/worse to have remote employees in?
One of the issues many small companies in the US run into is wanting to hire an employee (who let's say will work from his home) that lives in a different state.
I've found that some of the states ...
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Hiring Full-Time vs Contractors / Outsourcing Impact on Valuation?
Our SaaS startup is (hopefully) getting our first customer soon, at which point we decided to bring in additional resources to accelerate development.
The basic options is whether to bring in a ...
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Legal document checklist (NDA, …) when hiring part-time developers abroad?
I'm currently hiring some part-time developer abroad and wanted to make sure that I made them sign all the needed legal documents.
So, normally in those cases, what would you make those future ...
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Getting a New Hire to Work More
We recently hired a junior developer as employee #1 at our startup. He's doing a great job on all fronts (produces good work, gets along with team, etc.) with one exception--he isn't working long ...
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What is the company vision after five years in business?
I have been running my custom software and web development services as a one-man-show for 5 years now (I started working as a software developer right after graduation and after 3 years on the job, I ...
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Contribute to a startup as a part timer [closed]
I work as an architect in a successful product company. I am passionate about doing something of my own like building my own IP. Right now i do not want to just quit my job and do something of my own ...
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How do we know we're ready to grow?
Is it better to make the decision to hire based only on revenue growth? Or if you saved enough money to pay another salary for 4 months, would it be better to grow first and try to increase our ...
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Does a small startup really *need* someone with an MBA?
Inspired by this question, I want to know if people think a small startup (3-5 people) actually needs someone with an MBA. Especially if the group has reasonably diverse skills and isn't going the ...
