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Jobs Jobs Jobs

April 1, 2011 by Brad Feld with 123 views

A bunch of our portfolio companies are hiring. Just today, I got emails about new job pages at Cheezburger (Seattle and NY), SendGrid (Boulder and LA), and Attachments.me (Bay Area). But the growth is everywhere – Zynga (throughout the US), AdMeld (NY, London, Berlin), Fitbit (Bay Area), Gnip (Boulder), Oblong (LA), Trada (Boulder), and... [read more]

'Jobs' bill provides hiring credit, extends $250,000 Section 179 limit

March 19, 2010 by Joe Kristan with 180 views

The President yesterday signed HR 2847, the latest "jobs" bill, into law. The centerpiece of the bill is a provision forgiving employer FICA (but not Medicare) tax on "qualified" employees hired after February 3 for payroll earned from today thorugh December 31, 2010. A "qualified employee" is one who has worked less than 40 hours in... [read more]

Part 3: Taking Action Without Fear of Unanticipated Situations

October 6, 2009 by Holly Green with 156 views

Setting a new course for your organization may generate some anxiety for you since there are no guarantees when an economic turnaround will be firmly in place. You may feel like it’s time to turn right… but the economy might make a few more left turns along the way and leave you as road kill. These feelings are shared by most leaders... [read more]

Job Seekers and Social Media: Not So Perfect Together

September 11, 2009 by Andy Beal with 233 views

By Frank ReedYou hear the stories all the time. The human resources manager decides to do a little ORR (online reputation research) on a job candidate. They hear that they is a great candidate for a job opening. They are the best interview by far and the scuttlebutt in the office is that they are the person for the job. The HR folks... [read more]

#23: Here's a thought...

September 6, 2009 by BrianRoger with 149 views

An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on MyVenturePad reveals the following nuggets:Don’t forget to have funYou may think it’s hard to measure the return on investment of levity at work—whether a go-cart outing, online vacation photo contest, or a well-timed one liner—but we’ve found a bevy of successful leaders in... [read more]

10 Troubling Employer-Employee Lessons

August 24, 2009 by Tim Berry with 212 views

I was lucky. As Palo Alto Software grew up it found some good people along the way. Some of them stuck with us, and some were related to me, a second generation. We had a sense of community that seems, now that it’s grown, vital to that growth. But I’ve never really understood about managing employees. When I was in business school oh... [read more]

On Interview Questions for Sales People

June 16, 2009 by Dave Stein with 158 views

You may remember I wrote a post a while back about a terrific eBook Tom Searcy had published about RFPs. We’ve been recommending the book to clients. Last week Tom wrote a post on his blog about interview questions for sales people. Tom has the right idea here. His questions are on target. So are his comments, such as, “Never hire... [read more]

Hiring as a core competency

February 25, 2009 by seth levine with 121 views

Most startups spend plenty of time working on things like their product plans, requirements docs, market studies and the like. They are important aspects of running their companies and the kind of things that improve with collaboration and varied input from as well as from the iterative and inclusive process they typically require. You'... [read more]

Digging Beyond 7.2

January 21, 2009 by George Brymer with 31 views

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released its most recent report on U.S. employment. At the end of December, the unemployment rate reached 7.2 percent. While far from the double-digit rates of the 1980s, the increase in unemployment reflects a staggering one-month loss of 524,000 jobs and the disappearance of 1.9 million jobs in... [read more]

Meeting the I-9 deadline

December 5, 2007 by Diane Stafford with 43 views

Since November 1986, employers have had to complete Form I-9 for each employee hired. As of Friday, some important I-9 rules change. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has set Dec. 7 as the deadline for employers to begin using a new form (which actually carries a publication date of June 5, 2007). Also on Friday, employers... [read more]

The goal of non-competes?

December 4, 2007 by AlexanderMuse with 33 views

There are several conversations going on pertaining to ‘non-competes’. Bigan Sabet started the meme in a post titled, "Eliminate Non-Competes" and many others have commented including Fred Wilson in a post titled, "Thinking about Non-Competes". The meme was started in context with a recent court ruling in California that... [read more]

Building Workforce Commitment and Engagement

November 6, 2007 by Bud Bilanich with 56 views

In my book 4 Secrets of High Performing Organizations, I point out that all successful organizations and the people who lead them have four things in common. Successful organizations and the people who lead them have identified and clearly communicated a clarity of purpose and direction. Successful organizations and the people who... [read more]

SBA on Small Business Job Creation

November 1, 2007 by Steve King with 99 views

The SBA recently updated their small business statistics recently. The update again highligths the importance of small business employment to the US economy. Small businesses (less than 500 employees) employ 50.9% of nations private non-farm workforce in 2004. Net new job creation is even more slanted towards small business. From 2003... [read more]