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Atomico’s talent partners share 6 tips for early-stage people ops success

TechCrunch

You need to recruit for what you need, but you also need to think about what is coming down the line. At Google, he grew the EMEA team from 60 based in London to 8,500 across Europe by 2010, and at Skype, he led a talent team that scaled from 600 to 2,300 in three years. Caro Chayot’s top 3 tips.

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Growth hacking is really just growth testing

TechCrunch

Who knew that “growth hacking,” a term coined in 2010 by Sean Ellis, the first marketer at Dropbox, would become so commonplace in 2022? For example, we signed up with platforms such as Handshake, a college student job board, to recruit students to drive for us for extra cash in their spare time.

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Dear Sophie: How do tech layoffs impact PERM and the green card process?

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The PERM green card process is a multistep and time-intensive one involving a labor market recruitment test requiring employers to demonstrate to the U.S. If you are in or will soon start the PERM recruiting phase, you may receive a larger number of job applicants for your job posting due to the recent layoffs in the tech sector.

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Umaro is turning ocean-farmed seaweed into imitation bacon

TechCrunch

The organization managed to land a $5 million prize, due in part to research Beth Zotter had begun in 2010. For starters, you need to recruit folks who know something about food. The firm, which is now technically a subsidiary of the former, was formed to compete for the $100 million Carbon Removal XPrize.

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Drinking the Talent Kool-Aid | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If recruiting, training and development is being charged to a mid-level manager whose real domain expertise lies in administration and compliance then talent will likely become your largest contingent liability as opposed to your biggest asset. .&# Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

This continues my series of posts: Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Some great free resources listed this month that I thought were interesting.

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My big jump: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s CEO journey

TechCrunch

In early 2010, almost a year after I left Google, I finally found the right opportunity and decided to join fashion technology startup Polyvore as its full-time CEO. The founding team was led by a rock star engineer, Pasha Sadri, along with three other product and technology folks he recruited from the likes of Yahoo and Google.

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