Startups

5 Startup Hiring Mistakes That Can Crush Your Culture

7 March, 2014

Original post by Onstartups 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 and apprehensive: Excited because now you had the cash to invest in your business, apprehensive because you had just taken on a debt you […]

Do’s and Don’ts for Breaking the Ice with Interested Job Candidates

28 February, 2014

Do’s and Don’ts for Breaking the Ice with Interested Job Candidates If you’re a business start up, getting the best employees requires walking a tightrope between being too corporate and too inquisitive, too personal and too remote. Follow this guide to breaking the ice with prospective hires. DON’T Infiltrate Their Online Lives Before you buy […]

7 Tips on Hiring for Your Startup

31 May, 2013

 By Sarah Boisvert , Media Shower Startups are in a unique situation when hiring employees. Usually cash flow is tight or the company is being bootstrapped, so hiring mistakes are more costly than in a company with more financial stability. In addition, early-stage new hires are a large percentage of the total number of employees and have the […]

Student Engineers: Apply to work at 170+ startups with one Common Application

22 December, 2012

Original post by Red Eye VC  We’ve talked a lot recently about the amazing amount of talent that exists in universities across the country – and one of the main reasons we launched the Dorm Room Fund was to create a new and more efficient way for capital to flow onto campuses and into the best and brightest entrepreneurs.  But […]

Startup or Small Business – The Other Chasm

11 September, 2012

Original post by Peter Skalla via CFOWISE There’s a world of difference between a scalable technology startup and a small business.  Decide which you are. Crossing the Chasm is a startup classic written in 1991 about the challenge of going mainstream with a technology product.  I see an earlier mindset-based chasm with startups.  It’s summed in this […]