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What are the types of businesses allowed to petition foriegn employees
I have a person from Belgium with exceptional skills and work ethics who i want and trust to work for me.
This person can and is willing to help with my company by investing and doing the speciality ...
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Delegating software development work to freelancers
My partner and I are the only members of our startup consulting company. We are at the point where we fully realize the need to delegate work in order to grow. We want to practice our people and ...
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What is the best way to use stickers in marketing?
I have recruitment startup based on web application , I purchased 5000 sticker with the logo,slogan and the link of the startup on it.
now I'm really confused how could I use the stickers in ...
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Is it okay to ask potential hires about previous NDAs?
I'm in the midst of conducting research on starting up a small consulting/services business. Some of the services provided would involve developing proprietary algorithms. I would like to avoid ...
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Single Founder Rate of Success
I've spent quite a lot of time, met quite a lot of people, but still am failing at trying to find a cofounder for my startup.
I've gone to numerous tech-meetups, met 1:1 with quite a few people, ...
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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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How to find a programer/partner to my idea
I believe I have a great idea and want to make a website for that. The problem is that i can't find any CMS which fits my needs and my capabilities to develop myself the PHP MySQL solution are very ...
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Software start-ups: do you outsource your network admin?
For business, I tend to outsource a lot of things that I am more than capable of doing. Take, for example, office cleaning. Okay, I'm a slob, so in reality, it would never get done... but you get my ...
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Should I join a startup or take a regular dev job?
I am currently looking at job opportunities and the two most enticing are either a developer at a medium sized company or i have been offered a job at a new startup.
The money at the development ...
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What Are Some Good Profit Sharing Packages and Bonus Structures?
I own a bootstrapped startup that now has a big enough customer base where I can actually hire a developer to help me push it to the next level.
Since we don't have all the bells and whistles that ...
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Approaching A Professor For Help With Your Startup?
Has anyone ever approached a college professor to help give advice and provide introductions to people who might want to invest in your startup?
I'm going to do this, but wanted to gain some insight ...
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Hiring an Interim CEO
Can a person be hired as Interim CEO on a fixed term contract for 3 to 6 months?
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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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Can I volunteer as a developer for a startup?
I'm unemployed, not having luck finding a job. I'm not a people person and I always mess up interviews. Also when you freelance for many years its difficult.
I'm not really materialistic and I would ...
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How much is groupthink an advantage for the early founding years of a startup?
Well, recently I had a chat with my current boss over my previous experience of getting booted out from a startup due to having different views from the 2 founders (they were very gd friends and ...
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What tech awards should my startup apply for?
We're a social recruiting platform in the mobile, social, cloud and Human Resources space. Looking to apply for tech awards, or HR related awards this year.
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Getting a team of developers to join the bandwagon
I've been planning a social web app for about 12 months now, we have a large project team of about 23 members, a few technical team members but they're all currently busy with study or current ...
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Who to get as programmer?
Right now my friend and I are two non-technical people that have an idea we want to make a reality. After some research online, we figure we need to get a prototype to show an angel before they will ...
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Finding a commision-paid sales-person/business partner in the UK
I have a new services business which will be marketing a product to professional services firms in the UK. Unfortunately, for reasons which are unavoidable and not material to this question, I have to ...
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What's the best way to get early stage Beta-testers for a B2B product?
With a MVP product ready, I am planning to launch my start-up in the coming days. My product is aimed at the recruitment industry. Any suggested ways to get people to use the free trial?
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Non-compete clause for a early employee
Is it common to ask early employee of a startup to sign a contract containing non-compete clauses?
I am against our employee, but I have a little concern on our competitor as they have money to lure ...
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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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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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How do I find a technical co-founder?
One of my friends is starting a company and he's looking for a technical co-founder to work with him to build a web app. Where should he look for technical co-founder?
Some more details: He is a ...
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Where do IT recruiting companies get leads for open positions?
I'm assuming that some of the job leads come from the big jobs sites (Monster.com, CareerBuilder, Dice, etc). However, do recruiting firms reach out to companies to get on some sort of "vendor list" ...
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How to Filter (possibly) talented candidates for recruitment process in a tech startup
What are the good caps (like in terms of certain grades/marks, projects etc) that a tech startup could apply on the candidates applying for a job. Support there are lots of job seekers and we don't ...
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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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Local or remote partner, tech or non tech partner
Have any of you got experience with a remote partner, did it work out, and can you share any tips or arguments for or against working with a remote partner?
I'm currently thinking about a very ...
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Unsuccessful job posting, what did I do wrong? What should I focus on?
First, it is not my intent to abuse the Q&A forum to hire people, I'm asking about what I've done wrong. I've removed my company name, details, and industry from the posting below.
I'm a new ...
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Startup giving away product early or hold out?
So we are a SaaS model new recruitng tool and weve been trying to acquire our first couple of major deals. I read alot of books on starting up and have advised start ups my whole career. At first we ...
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How should the next generation of employees be?
I recently read a news article (in Norwegian) that "the ability to cooperate" was essentially the only requirement for applicants, which was just as relevant 50 years ago as it is today, while ...
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Why would someone work in a startup?
I think the most essential question to ask before recruiting someone to work for your startup is to ask their main motivation to work in a startup.
Those of you that have experiences with recruiting ...
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How to earn VC/Angel Investor financial and technical talent support?
More specifically, has any of you managed to convince both financial support, and getting additional technical talent to support the expansion of a startup concept/prototype? If so, where and how did ...
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How to find people interested to participate in a brand-new open-source project?
I recently set up an open-source infrastructure for Obix.
Obix is a new, object-oriented programming language designed to help people writing more reliable code in less time. More information can be ...
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Where did your star developer come from?
If your startup has a star developer:
what was he/she doing before joining your company?
How did you find and get into contact with him/her?
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So I've got this great idea for the iPad… but what next?
Maybe someone has experience with this?
I've been mulling this idea for an app that would really show off what's possible with a tablet like the iPad. It doesn't exist yet, and I want it to.
I'm ...
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Building an “A-Team” — How do I Build a Team I can trust from those I don't know?
[Multi-part question with similar introduction because I thought the questions would be more useful separately.]
Hi all,
I'm currently a one-man dev team with what I believe is a killer idea. I've ...
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Building an “A-Team” — How to Retain Ownership of the Idea?
[Multi-part question with similar introduction because I thought the questions would be more useful separately.]
Hi all,
I'm currently a one-man dev team with what I believe is a killer idea. I've ...
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Succeeding on (software development) freelancing sites?
We are a very small company that turned to freelancer.com for a small web development project. Things have not gone as smoothly as we have wished so we are analyzing what went wrong. One key problem ...
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Sales through street promotion - how can we recruit many more people?
We developed very innovative new sunglass clipons, which are exactly tailored to each individual pair of eyeglasses: http://bit.ly/cd06cJ
About 40% of all eyeglass-wearers want and buy them.
The ...
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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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Why do recruitment websites charge companies(recruiters)? Is it feasible if a recruitment website provides free service for both recruiters and job-seekers?
Is it feasible if a recruitment website provides free service for both recruiters and job-seekers?
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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 ...
