Questions regarding practices of recruiting new employees for the business.
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What should I ask a startup's investors as a potential employee?
So, I was reading Guy Kawasaki's questions to ask a startup. One of them is to ask if you can speak with one of the investors on the Board of Directors. A startup that offered me a job asked me if 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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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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You have a list of potential interns for your software development shop… what do you ask to select the best ones?
SO you have a list of resumes for potential software development interns, what do you ask them to make sure you get the best one(s)?
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Qualifying someone as an employee vs a contractor
My wife and I have a very small catering company. We have recently gotten all of the business licenses and tax identification and things set up that we need. We have no full time employees, but we ...
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I need to know when to hire certain postions for my startup
I know the answer to this question varies greatly depending on the business etc. But I want to know if anyone knows of any information available that explains x-users = x-customer support reps etc. ...
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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 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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How Do You Find a Copywriter?
We are looking for a great copywriter who can understand our product, our selling proposition, and our customers, and can run with it and produce web site and brochure copy. We have a budget of a few ...
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What is the best startup hiring book?
I am starting to hire people int our startup. We actually need to hire very quickly and effectively at the same time as we don't have a lot of chance to make mistakes.
What is the best book anyone ...
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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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What is considered “generous-stock-options” for a start-up company in its early days?
We are a young startup, founded by 3 members about a year and a half ago, and recently closed a seed-stage investment round.
We are about to hire our first 3 employees, 2 tech, 1 ...
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What to consider when approaching a developer about a SaaS partnership opportunity?
First question and this is on behalf of a friend of mine. I'm a student developer, so I was hoping someone around here could provide some tangible insight.
My friend is not new to starting a ...
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Need a service but I don't know much about it
As a decision maker in my startup I want to be better informed when contracting someone for a service, especially.
Years ago I was led to believe anyone with a computer and good eye could easily make ...
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How to find early developers, from a geographically distant location?
We're a new startup, based in a developing country. There are some good developers geographically close to us, but they're in very high demand and mostly taken by the existing big companies, and the ...
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Hiring a CTO into an existing [profitable] company - how to structure offer?
I'm the CEO of a B2B startup. Been around almost 1 year and we already have a decent piece of software, 2 clients and are profitable. Not hugely so, but enough to pay the bills.
To scale to the next ...
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When a startup should hire a sys admin?
The startup is growing and you have now 5 full-time devs on your team. You have an older application which is up and running in production and a new web application almost ready to be released. You ...
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Hiring contract developers to bootstrap a startup
We are developing a music service with a certain implementation model & revenue model in mind. Its nothing out of the blue, but a combination of best of everything, in a nice way. We have external ...
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Potential employee's F-1 student visa expires in October…How “hard” would it be to get him sponsored?
Currently operating a very small, early-stage startup. Just received first round of seed capital and looking to expand operations this summer. I have been looking for a developer (employee #2) 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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How to hire your first employee in the UK
We are on the brink of hiring our first staff member in the UK.
We know there is a lot of paperwork to be done, but have no idea what that paperwork is and which things are crucial and which are just ...
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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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At what stage do startups hire a secretary?
When would you know, as a startupper, that your company needs to hire an in-house secretary to offload some of the non-mission critical work? How do you manage delegating tasks vs. making sure that ...
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How to convince a sales rep to take a commission job?
I have contacted a sales rep with good experience and his recommendations are good. But he is interested in salary jobs that pay 80k, with me his 25% is six figures and he only has to sign 8 clients a ...
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Personality profiling for job candidates?
I've used a variety of personality profiles to gain additional insights on job candidates, regarding work and communication styles, energy levels, focus, drive etc etc. I have used the DISC Online ...
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equity explained for a developer
I've seen job listings for developers that offer salary + equity. Can someone please explain equity with an example or two? What is the typically amount of equity for a developer? Is there any ...
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Where to find designers / programmers for equity
Investors want to see the finished project (+ maybe private beta results).
I came a long way, but I have the feeling that I cant run the last couple of miles without being surpassed by competition.
I ...
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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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Do you accept Certifications in lieu of Programmer Testing?
To follow up on my post earlier this month on programmer testing when hiring, let me ask a followup question. Do you skip the programming test if an applicant has a certification in the skill?
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Where can I find iOS developers willing to join an early-stage startup?
I'm co-founding a startup in London and we're looking to find an iOS developer interested in working with us to create an early prototype.
I'm the technical co-founder, while the other founders are ...
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Find an engineering position at a startup
What is the best way to find an engineering position at a startup? Typical job listing sites don't often have postings for these opportunities. While I realize networking is key, how does one get the ...
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Difference between contractor and intern?
I have a small company and we are constantly looking for contractors (we plan to have employees in the future, but for now we want to stick to contractors). I noticed if I say that interns are welcome ...
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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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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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Hiring Key Resources with market experience and knowledge for a fresh business startup
We are in process to start a new consulting business on B2C model and would like to hire new resources with ample domain expertise and ability to add value to our organisation at director/head levels.
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Hiring remote employees and getting work done
I want to hire a few developers and support executive for my website. Being an start up, I want to hire them to work remotely to save office expenses but I don't know anything about hiring full time ...
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If I can find someone who will work for an employee's salary rate as a contractor, should I hire them?
I am 1 year into my own Startup Software business and all is going well. We have enough money to hire someone and after pushing 90-130 hours a week for the last 4 months, I think it's a sensible ...
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Good resources to hire developer on a work basis
Is there a place where I could hire a developer (or a team) based on functional specs I would submit. What I am envisioning is a site where I would submit a description of my project and get access ...
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Bringing part time hacker on-board for equity only. How much equity is fair?
[Disclaimer: This question was also posted on Hacker News]
Howdy,
Just 6 weeks ago my co-founder and I began working on our startup full time. We want to accelerate development and have talked to a ...
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Hiring a developer - Agreements and other formalities
I run a software startup based out of India.
To write a module of my application I am talking to a developer. To make things formal I wanted to sign an agreement.
The agreement should talk about ...
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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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Dealing with Co-founder without the same commitment
Imagine the following scenario:
1 founder and self proclaimed CEO , created an idea for a new website internet services, and started developing it. The core of the system is done, he decides that one ...
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How to value a Project Manager versus actual Technical/Engineering talent?
I have relatively little experience with recruiting, determining compensation and hiring for startups since this is my first go at it. My approach is that there isn't a single right answer on valuing ...
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Product equity rather than company equity - any examples?
We're all familiar with the traditional shared equity arrangements in a startup; Some contribution = Some % of shares (thus equity) in the company, which may or may not payoff down the road at either ...
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We are an LLC from NJ, can we hire this guy from Canada, who is a temporary resident?
We are a small software based start up in NJ, we recently got a couple of projects from Canada and we're loving them.
We came across this guy in Canada, he is very talented and we think he will be ...
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When to hire someone with law/business background in a start up?
When is the best time to hire someone with law/business experience? I've got a friend with a JD MBA, that is looking for good start up companies where his services might be valued. He worked in law ...
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Company Showcasing: Do Recruiters have the need to showcase work/ projects of their organizations while promoting company to potential candidates? [closed]
Do Recruiters have the need to showcase the work/ projects of their organizations while promoting their company to the potential candidates ?
If this showcasing is required, through what means is ...
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What test-assignment to give to a distance-working developer/freelancer to determine his/her quality
So let's say you are trying to find a freelancer on the internet to do some coding/developing for a web application or a more generic type of aplication (like a c++ developer).
What would be a good ...
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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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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? ...
