Recruitment for Start-Ups (Part II) Finding the Right CEO

October 29th, 2008

Part two of this series by Tim Dempsey focuses on finding a CEO.

Marc is an inventor who has spent a couple of years building a robust product that is finally ready to go to market. The problem is that Marc is just that, an inventor, and realises that he has no clue how to run a business, manage a team, take control of finances or sell the product itself. Marc understands that he needs to recruit someone to do all this, but is completely perplexed on where to go next.

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Recruitment for Start-Ups (Part I) Building the Right Team

October 29th, 2008

We’ve seen a number of start-ups recently that are really beating themselves up about recruiting the right people, so Tim Dempsey has prepared the following advice. Here is the first of this serialised epic journey into the realms of start-up recruitment. more…

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Glossary of Corporate Finance Terms

October 20th, 2008

This list of corporate finance, accounting and investment terms will continue to grow whenever we think of anything to add. If you know of a term which has caused confusion then please let us know and we’ll do our best to explain it here.
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