Business is never done for its own sake. There is always a higher-level goal. Sometimes it is done for financial security, sometimes it is done for egoistic ambitions. But it can also be done for freedom or a desire to make the world a better place...
In the previous post we tried to find out whether hiring a consultant is a good idea for startups and what makes a consultant the right one. The bottomline is that startup consultants can be surprisingly useful, but you have to pick only those who...
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. Randy Pausch So you’ve made up your mind at last. You gathered up your courage — and you will give it a shot. This brilliant idea just can’t wait any longer. If you...
Ken Carnesi, Mike Schroll, and Brian Gillis started DNSFilter after Ken struggled to find a content filtering solution that fit the needs of his business. Rather than settle for a solution that wasn’t ideal, they created their own. DNSFilter...
Bryan Helmig сo-founded Zapier in late 2011 with good friends Mike and Wade, which was admitted to YCS12 (Y Combinator) batch. Zapier is a web automation app to build Zaps which can automate the most tedious parts of your day to day job. You can...
Culture fit is an obvious concern for businesses making their first remote hire. It’s different when everyone’s working in the same office: people naturally get to know each other through hundreds of small exchanges during the day. New employees...
Here I will do my best to explain how to squeeze as much value as possible out of that bearded guy (or that lady with strange glasses) you’ve just signed a consulting services contract with. The key is to understand what past-founders-turned...
Interview with Vivek Ravisankar, CEO at HackerRank Founded in 2012 in Bangalore, India, HackerRank has reinvented the recruitment process. Having started as a website that matched mentors with students, today HackerRank is a leading tech skills...
Interview with Dee Dee Walsh, VP of Marketing & Business Development at Mobilize.net Mobilize.Net brings software applications forward to modern web, mobile and cloud platforms, and makes this process more simple and fast. Formerly known as...
Sourcify is a YC-backed sourcing platform that matches customers with pre-vetted factories overseas. It helps enterprises worldwide improve manufacturing process and turnaround time by up to 64%. With a remote team of 16 people, 6 offices all over...
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