The History Of Social Media Hiring
In 2012, we’ve reached a point where social media titles are on the rise, but each job description is written to coincide with a similar position inside the company. Pure social roles, like Twitter specialist, are just a upgrade from customer service representative. Facebook managers are forum community managers. Content creators are copywriters. While there are the occasional social technology roles in mobile or applications, those are not the norm. The norm, is that everyone is expected to know how social media impacts their division.
How To Find A Startup Co-Founder
If you don’t have a co-founder or are looking for an additional co-founder then you should not be obsessed about finding one. Instead, focus on finding people who you can work with and who buy into what you are doing. You can always promote people into co-founder level roles after they have demonstrated their commitment [...]
Is Your Team’s Quest For The Best Killing Your Prospects For Recruiting The Best Programmers
I advise and help a lot of software engineering teams and software executive teams to recruit the best programmers and other team members. Not a week goes by that I’m not involved in this aspect of startup and software company operations. I’m writing this post because recently I have had conversations with some really amazing [...]
What is the best tool for recruiting top programmers?
I just read a question posted on one of those Q&A sites. Someone asked what the best recruiting tool was and everyone replied that LinkedIn was it. A few mentioned Facebook. The founder of a recruiting tool startup said LinkedIn, that made me smile. I can’t believe it. If you are planning on building the [...]
Building The Ultimate Startup Dashboard For Your Team
Talk to most startup founders and you can easily begin to think they are a bit crazy or (more likely) OCD. Talk to enough successful startup founders and you can quickly spot a few important traits that they all have. There is usually a big difference. One attribute that typically helps me to differentiate between [...]
Kryptonite Angel Round Terms
Here’s a list of the top 5 deal terms that cause harm to startups at the seed financing stage and therefore should be avoided:
5. Control
“Control” of a startup can manifest itself in various forms such as equal (or investor-favorable) representation on the board of directors or a requirement of obtaining seed [...]
Real Innovation Takes Time
Combinatorial Innovation
There are so many new technologies today: tablets, geolocation, video chat, great app frameworks. It is easy to cherry-pick off “combinatorial” innovations that seem compelling, and can maybe even be monetized readily.
But all those innovations are inevitable. If our technologies afford a certain possibility, they [...]
