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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

9 Ways to Recruit the Best Talent for Your Startup

Hiring is hard, but hiring for startups can be even harder. As a young company with limited cash flow, hiring the wrong employee can potentially break your startup. Therefore, you have to be very careful with your decisions and do your best to hire top talent. Below you can find some suggestions on hiring the best startup employees.

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Business Tips For Everyone

Nathan Latka."The most painful mistake I see first-time entrepreneurs make is that they try and invent something totally new because their ego tells them they have to.""It's much smarter to copy a competitor you like, then tweak one or two things that you think will put you over the top."

Guy Kawasaki. “My best business tip is to focus on the prototype. Don't focus on your pitch deck, business plan or financial projections.""If you get a prototype out and you get enough people using it, you never have to write a business plan, do a forecast or do anything like that. A prototype is where you separate the BS from the reality.”

Derek Sivers. "Start now, you don't need funding. Watch out for when you want to do something big, but say you can't until you raise money to fund the idea. It usually means you're more in love with the idea of being big than with actually doing something useful."

Nir Eyal. "The easiest way to tell if someone is a first-time entrepreneur is when they're secretive about their ideas. I don't reply to people who ask me to sign an NDA. Real entrepreneurs know good ideas are cheap and that success comes from hard work, not a stroke of genius."