The Founders Who Turned a Dud Into an Enterprise With a Million Paying Customers
This post, “The Founders Who Turned a Dud Into an Enterprise” appeared first on Inc. It was the spring of 2009, before we had even met Mike Silagadze. He was sitting in his apartment, waiting for his roommate and business partner, Mohsen Shahini, to show up. He had some devastating news to share about their startup, Top Hat, […]
Dissecting the Resume: Five Useful Tools
Getting a resume right is the top priority for all job seekers, creating that all-important document that will catch a potential employer’s attention and prompt contact is crucial. Today we will be dissecting the resume and review what job seekers absolutely need in a resume to get noticed. Whether you are looking for a new […]
Easy Hiring Is Not for Large Companies
At ClearFit, we focus on making it easy for small businesses to find and hire the best people. We get asked all the time why we don’t intentionally call on big businesses to use our easy hiring product. Certainly some large companies do use ClearFit, but the funny thing we’ve discovered is there’s really no upside […]
Hiring Mistakes: An Interesting Approach to Mistakes
One of my favorite topics to blog about is hiring mistakes and how to avoid them. It’s true that hiring mistakes are very expensive and destructive and that we want to avoid making them at all costs. We invented ClearFit to help business owners avoid hiring mistakes by using science that’s built from years of […]
The Scary Choice This Startup Made Before Raising $8.8 Million
I hope you enjoy this blog. Not finding the best employees?Schedule a demo to learn how SmoothHiring will help you find the best fit for the job using predictive analytics. In February 2013, Evgeny Tchebotarev met with his four-person leadership team at 500px, an online photography community he had co-founded in 2009 with Oleg Gutsol, a […]
The Brave Strategy That Finally Helped These Two Startup Founders Dominate Their Market
In 2009, Simon Tomlinson and Stewart Wigg, the cofounders of Bluesun, a technology consulting business, came to a disturbing conclusion–they had created the wrong company. They had gone into business eight years prior with the dream to build a thriving market leader, but had ended up with a small lifestyle business. It was a conclusion […]
Why This Startup Bought a Struggling Product From Its Giant Competitor
In the winter of 2014, serial entrepreneur Albert Lai sat alone waiting for a friend at a restaurant down the street from his latest venture, Big Viking Games. On the table in front of him lay his iPhone. He had just drafted an email and was debating whether to press send–it was a message that […]
How This Kindergarten Teacher Raised $34 Million from the Firm That Funded Apple and Google
“Your idea will never work.” These words rang through Tami Zuckerman’s head as she sat in her family’s kitchen alone one day in the winter of 2012. At the time, she was a kindergarten teacher on pregnancy leave, who believed she had an idea for a new solution to a huge problem. Unfortunately, the person […]
What If Your Customers Suddenly Disappeared? Try This Company’s Smart Comeback Strategy
In October 2001, Sean McDade, the founder of PeopleMetrics, looked down at the document lying on his desk–a term sheet for a $250,000 investment in his startup. His employees had gone home for the day, and as he sat in his office alone, he considered how the funds could add five new employees to his […]
The Secret Behind the Startup That Ballooned but Almost Popped
This post, “The Secret Behind the Startup That Ballooned but Almost Popped” appeared first on Inc. In 2007, our friends at Northstar Balloons entered the balloon market space with the intention of giving the established players a serious poke. Working in Northstar’s favor was the fact that its founder, Garry Kieves, had a history of success […]
