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| bio | website | TheOperationsGuy.com |
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| location | Boston, MA | |
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| visits | member for | 3 years, 4 months |
| seen | Jan 22 at 16:07 | |
| stats | profile views | 364 |
I am a startup veteran and a business operations leader CEOs bring on-board to:
- solve toughest resource problems and hack through emerging business operations impediments
- help build loyal teams of extremely smart and diverse people
- deploy and continuously improve sales, marketing automation, customer support, and other operational system
- nurture culture of accountability and meritocracy
15 years in startups, 9 technology, entertainment, and professional services companies, 12 founders, 7 CEOs.
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Nov 30 |
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Building an “A-Team” — How do I Build a Team I can trust from those I don't know? goober, "human equation" often will make or break your team (no matter how talented everyone is). |
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Nov 30 |
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Building an “A-Team” — How do I Build a Team I can trust from those I don't know? Hey, Josh, you are stalking me here too :-) You will notice, those who actually know what the hell they are doing rarely taught their education. Have you noticed those who attach every damn thing they can to their name tend to cover up lack of value they provide. |
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Nov 29 |
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Maximum number of angel investors? I don't think so. Investor management is one of the top 3 responsibilities of the CEO. Mismanaged investors cause a lot of problems, no matter how "angelic" and helpful those investors are. |
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Nov 29 |
answered | Building an “A-Team” — How do I Build a Team I can trust from those I don't know? |
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Nov 28 |
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Maximum number of angel investors? You always have to manage the investors, their expectations, requests, etc. etc. etc. No such thing as "each investor should know". Everyone is a human with an individual ego, idea about their role, value, and impact of the money invested. It has been my experience, that the investor management can consume almost 100% of the CEO's attention (angel or VC, same thing). |
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Nov 27 |
answered | Maximum number of angel investors? |
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Nov 20 |
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What Are My Options For Inexpensive 401(k) Plans? Don't know when you checked it, but it is not the case. You sure you were looking at their small business options? |
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Nov 19 |
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Zoho vs. Highrise vs. Salesforce BTW, migrating away from Highrise into any real CRM is pain I don't want to deal with ever again. I'd rather go see a dentist for a week. |
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Nov 19 |
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Zoho vs. Highrise vs. Salesforce Out of all the CRMs I have dealt with, 37Signals is the most arrogant company out there. It is not the license issue, but the capability and flexibility one. Highrise is good enough for a tiny shop that does not rely on CLEAN data. Just invest the money and effort into a real CRM and get it done 80% right from the beginning. |
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Nov 19 |
answered | What Are My Options For Inexpensive 401(k) Plans? |
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Nov 19 |
answered | Zoho vs. Highrise vs. Salesforce |
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Nov 13 |
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Operations - Developing Processes for a startup Would love to find out why folks chose to vote this down? Didn't I point OP to what he asked for? Just wondering. |
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Nov 5 |
answered | Operations - Developing Processes for a startup |
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Sep 24 |
answered | Do I need a business partner? |
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Sep 24 |
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Do I need a business partner? Hell no! Offering products for free is the dumbest thing someone not serving consumer market could do. #1 thing you need to do is know how to get $1. Your product is crap and your business is set to failure, if you can't get a customer to write you a check. If you are scratching the right "itch", customers will pay. |
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Aug 29 |
answered | Typical Pay or am I being taken advantage of |
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Aug 11 |
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1099 limitations of how much work you can give a contractor. Need some help with that Well... I am absolutely in compliance of the four you mention. I work with some workaholics, so I know besides bunch of my work they also get buch of work from others. Still DOL and IRS are merciless, so I want to be safe rather than sorry. |
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Aug 11 |
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1099 limitations of how much work you can give a contractor. Need some help with that I would love to convert several of them to W2... problems is neither I have a chance, nor my other friends working with them have. Those guys and gals got burned so bad with couple of companies before, there is no way they ever will do W2 ever again. Sucks... for the lack of better term. |
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Aug 11 |
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1099 limitations of how much work you can give a contractor. Need some help with that By saying "I treat my ICs just like I would treat my own employees." I meant I treat them with same respect and consideration as I do with employees. |
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Aug 9 |
asked | 1099 limitations of how much work you can give a contractor. Need some help with that |
