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[10 Tips For A Successful Startup Job Search

October 23, 2014 

This following article is a guest post by Rick Burnes. Rick is the VP of Content Products at BookBub. You can follow him on twitter: @rickburnes. Startup job searches are hard.…

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[A Tech Founder's Guide To Picking A Non-Tech Founder

December 18, 2013 

There are many articles and blogs claiming to have THE list of things to do to find the perfect technical cofounder - as if it’s that easy to find a cofounder in general. From my…

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[12 Unconventional Interview Questions Entrepreneurs Should Ask

June 5, 2013 

Where potential employees are concerned, obviously skills are important. Yet we’ve all seen fabulously talented individuals become a team that was far less than the sum of its parts.…

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[5 Startup Hiring Mistakes That Can Crush Your Culture

April 29, 2013 

Remember your first business loan? Or, if you're like many entrepreneurs, you may have initially bootstrapped your startup by buying some stuff on your credit card. You were excited…

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[The 4 Personality Types Every Startup Needs

February 1, 2013 

Anyone can have a killer startup idea, but in order to make that idea succeed you’ll need an unbeatable team. Crafting the perfect team is an art -- one we're constantly trying to…

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[Recruiting Developers? Create An Awesome Candidate Experience

November 29, 2012 

tl;dr: If you're trying to attract awesome developers, you need to create an awesome candidate experience (CX). Something that makes them go "WOW!". It's like UX -- but for the people…

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[How To Hire Hackers: A Realistic Guide For Startups

November 15, 2012 

The following is a guest post by Iris Shoor. She's a co-founder at Takipi, a new startup looking to change the way developers work in the cloud. Previously, she was co-founder at…

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[Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers

August 6, 2012 

This is a guest post by Avi Flombaum. Avi is the Dean of The Flatiron School, an intensive program to learn Ruby on Rails in New York. He was formerly the co-founder and CTO at…

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[Startup Lessons From 17 Hard-Hitting Quotes In "Moneyball"

February 2, 2012 

I'm an idiot. Not all of the time, mind you, not even most of the time, but every now and then, I'm an idiot. Like the time my friend and co-founder Brian Halligan asked me to read…

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[HubSpot Fires First Shot in Boston Battle For Talent: $10,000 Bounty

January 24, 2011 

Over on the west coast, companies like Google and Facebook are duking it out for top tech talent. There’s all sorts of craziness going on including 10% across the board raises and big…

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[Commit To Your Core: 9 Reasons Why Every Entrepreneur Should Outsource

December 2, 2010 

The following is a guest post by Scott Dinsmore. Scott is an entrepreneur, Personal Freedom Coach and value investor. Read more of his articles at Reading For Your Success or grab his…

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