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(Video) How Successful Startups Hire

Published

11 years ago

Jun 4, 2014

Joel Brown (Founder of Addicted2Success.com)

Are you new to the startup world? Are you baffled when it comes to the art of hiring new and talented staff for your startup business?

Here is a video by OnlineMBA that outlines the way that a number of successful startups have been able to find amazing talent to sky rocket their business to a greater level of silicon valley stardom.

Here’s how successful startups hire:

How Successful Startups Hire

“For most things in life, the range between best and average is 30 or so. The best airplane flight, the best meal, they may be 30 better than your average one…. The Mac team was an attempt to build a whole team like that, A players.

You need to have a collaborative hiring process. When we hire someone, even if they’re going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers. My role model was J. Robert Oppenheimer. I read about the type of people he sought for the atom bomb project. I wasn’t nearly as good as he was, but that’s what I aspired to do.” – Steve Jobs

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I am the the Founder of Addicted2Success.com and I am so grateful you're here to be part of this awesome community. I love connecting with people who have a passion for Entrepreneurship, Self Development & Achieving Success. I started this website with the intention of educating and inspiring likeminded people to always strive for success no matter what their circumstances. I'm proud to say through my podcast and through this website we have impacted over 200 million lives in the last 10 years.

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