Organization Questions

How should a small startup organize their hiring pipeline? We're a team of 8 so don't have a dedicated HR person. Way too early for that. So we keep an excel file to manage candidates we interview....

Recruiting Hiring Organization

asked Jun 11 '14 at 14:56

Michael Brown
14 points

I'm wondering if anyone has tips setting up an inside sales room. We have about 7 to 10 people making phone calls all day in a pretty narrow, smaller room. We've done a lot of acoustic reduction...

Office Organization Operations

asked Dec 2 '13 at 12:22

John O
1 point

We have successfully grow our company beyond the startup phase to the expansion phase. now, we're acquiring clients very fast and we need to swiftly and consistently train new members of our...

Business Process Team Organization Expanding

asked Aug 20 '13 at 00:43

Sd Reyes
156 points

I'm organizing a hackathon this summer and my team and I have had a lot of fun bootstrapping the whole process. In fact, we enjoyed it so much that we tossed around the idea of making the...

Non Profit Canada Organization Registration

asked Jul 19 '13 at 08:01

Max Mackie
166 points

I currently host an online group that meets once a month for dinner. We recently began hosting small private events that required a minimal cover charge at the door to cover the rental fee of the...

LLC Organization

asked Mar 11 '13 at 13:20

Juli
11 points

I am considering forming an LLC, developing a B2B service platform. I am an independent consultant/developer, and have been working with another individual for several years. Over this time, we...

LLC Business Corporate Structure Organization

asked Jan 24 '13 at 03:18

Conrad
108 points

I have question about some organizational issue. Is a good idea to split my main information website (home, about, contact, ...) and my core application service to domain and subdomain? For...

Website Organization Domain Web App

asked Sep 14 '12 at 08:42

Grzegorz
144 points

We are looking into best-practices to make our startup paperless from the get go. We are using dropbox of course, but what kind of tools would you recommend to scan, archive and share documents,...

Organization Document Management

asked Mar 8 '12 at 00:11

J7nn7k
108 points

For a couple of months now, myself and a couple of contacts of mine have been pondering ways to develop an incubator to bridge the entrepreneurial resources of NYC (Silicon Alley) with Long Island...

Community Organization

asked Aug 21 '11 at 04:24

Theonlylos
397 points

Preferably specifically targeted for startups in Tech/IT. I seem to find a lot about large corporations, but very little good literature about scaling from a small/midsize into a large...

Management Books Organization Scaling

asked Jun 23 '11 at 23:05

John Sjölander
2,082 points

My friend and I are starting an online business to sell environmentally friendly diapers. We are both middle aged women. She has kids, I don't and our husbands work for the city. We have some...

Business Organization

asked Jun 18 '11 at 00:04

Janice
6 points

We are a group of 5 people working on an idea for a start-up. The aim is to find an investor that would allow us to develop the project fully. Now we're just at the idea and presentation stage. 3...

Equity Founders Organization Presentation

asked Jun 19 '11 at 22:49

Giovanni
11 points

When you're working on a startup it sometimes feels like there are hundreds of things to do. What techniques have you tried to organizing your todo items/ideas/tasks that worked? What did you try...

Organization

asked Jun 22 '11 at 11:09

Alex Cook
641 points

I am a co-founder of a startup company. We sell market data and analysis reports to manufacturers. Our reports have fairly high value, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands...

Marketing Sales Organization

asked Jun 9 '11 at 01:23

Tong Wang
108 points

Before I get into the question, I’d like to mention that this is my first venture where I am a decision maker, it's been great but as you will see below, due to some inexperience, I am stumped as...

Customer Support Business Process Organization Communication

asked Mar 11 '11 at 13:50

Danny
113 points

I am an entreprenuer, who has always been keen on IT, but having no background of programming. I have several ideas which i would like to implement one at a time. These involve combination of...

Technical Team Project Organization

asked Jan 29 '11 at 15:37

Kartik
21 points

I suffer from having too many ideas and am constantly bombarded by my own subconscious that drops stuff on me unexpectedly... My problem is that I need to capture all these ideas very quickly and...

Ideas Tools Organization

asked Oct 29 '10 at 06:27

Patrickgamer
234 points

I'd like to know if anyone can recommend, a book, a blog, a document, heck even a contact who has some solid experience in developing business processes. Our company is pretty small, we are 6...

Business Process Organization

asked Nov 5 '10 at 10:58

Danny
113 points

I've heard that it is almost impossible to build a startup among friends because a command structure or organization structure is hard to solidify. Everybody wants to be a commander but you cannot...

Corporate Structure Organization

asked Sep 28 '10 at 14:19

Ludwi
128 points

Large companies are often organized into business units (GM is supposted to be a primer on this). These units essentially function like smaller companies. The only difference is that the accounting...

Strategy Organization Large Companies

asked Jun 13 '10 at 06:20

David
1,567 points