Recommended Reading: ‘When Smart People Are Bad Employees’
This article, written by Ben Horowitz who is co-founder and general partner of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (with Marc Andreessen), reflects on some of the problems of hiring just the brightest and not necessarily the best people. I would recommend that any startup founder looking to hone their hiring strategy read this. I would also [...]
How Do I Quickly Hire People For My Funded Startup
I often hear from founders of startups that have received substantial investor funding, but who are confounded by the challenge of making their business plan scale with respect to growing their team. They have a ton of money and a great product, but people are not simply hopping on board when they post their job [...]
Five Things Startups Want To See In Your Web Portfolio
Yesterday I had a chat with a friend who is teaching a group of web design and web development students. He has been talking to them about web portfolios recently. This got me to thinking about what startup companies look for in designer and developer portfolios. It isn’t always what you would think.
Here are a [...]
How Apple, Google, and Others Colluded To Under Pay Employees
According to the San Jose Mercury News (read the full story here), the Justice Department recently put an end to a secret pact between some of the tech community’s favorite places to work. The list of participating companies includes: Apple, Adobe Systems, Google, Intel, Intuit and Pixar. According to the Mercury News, the group’s rule was: ”Don’t cold-call any [...]
How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea
If you have ever been serious about founding a startup company you are probably, like many other founders, most frustrated by the challenge of how to find a programmer to build your startup idea. These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If you post up an ad to [...]
How To Pick Starters For Your Startup Team
Have you ever wondered why some people become NBA All Stars and others are passed over for college basketball scholarships? Playing basketball requires skill and ability. Training can make a big difference, but at some level ability and human factors kick in. In watching March Madness games over the weekend I was impressed that a [...]
Team Building for Early Stage Startup Companies
I have interviewed a lot of early stage startup company founders and one thing that they all have in common is a frustration with recruiting. It isn’t just with recruiters although for some the recruiters rank highly on their list of complaints. The biggest challenge for founders is to identify who to hire, how to [...]
