Hiring your first employee is an important step. This is the first person you’re letting into your closely guarded domain and exposing to the inner workings of your startup, fueled by your passions – however organized, chaotic, or quixotic they may be.
Avoid stumbling out of the starting gate. Here’s how to hire your first employee. Read More
Recently the Netsetter had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Alykhan Jetha of Marketcircle, developers of popular Mac small business applications Billings and Daylite. Check below the jump for both audio and text versions of Thursday Bram‘s interview with AJ.
Ignite is a set of events where speakers are given exactly 5 minutes to speak on a topic of their choice with slides that auto-forward whether you’re ready or not. It’s a pretty cool format because it forces you to get to the point very quickly. I gave a presentation at Ignite Melbourne a couple of nights ago about how you can use iteration to build a business, even if you don’t have a ton of experience. Read More
As I sit and type this, it’s nearly three in the morning. Working late, once again.
Or am I? What IS working late? Is working late just working past 5:00 pm – or is it working for a certain amount of consecutive hours in a row? Or is “working late” just a term we often use when we think we should be elsewhere, i.e. with the family?
In today’s day, business happens 24/7. If you’re a startup company – or any company for that matter, you probably can’t get away with 9-to-5 hours.
They may not be aliens, but they aren’t your next-door neighbor either.
So how do you go about contacting a new media contact for the first time? Do you follow them on Twitter and send them a DM? Do you email them? Make a cold call? Or do you simply just show up in person, and knock on their door?
Depending on the industry you’re in, the first medium of contact can differ. If you’re contacting someone in the web or tech industry, chances are an electronic form of contact will work best. Sometimes though, an old-fashioned handshake can work best.
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