From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Personal Branding and the Job Market

April 22, 2008

If you don’t think personal branding is important, you’re flat out nuts.
Nowadays it’s so much easier to brand yourself online – through blogging, social media, networking – and then leverage that effectively offline as well. Bringing your online branding efforts offline is key; because you can’t live exclusively online. And this is especially true in [...]

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Data: A Startup’s Secret Money-Making Asset

April 21, 2008

The pervading approach to launching a startup is to do it quickly, iterate constantly and make as much noise as possible throughout the process. It’s not a bad way of doing things, and given the lower cost of startup operations, and the nature of consumer web startups in particular, and it’s completely doable. But be [...]

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Kudos to Marc-Andre Cournoyer: Speaking at MeshU

April 18, 2008

Marc-Andre Cournoyer was the first employee we ever hired at Standout Jobs. Since then he’s done a lot of cool things (for us) and on his own, including the fastest Ruby web server, Thin.
Now Marc-Andre has been invited to speak at MeshU – a 1-day conference on development, design and business. Marc’s doing a workshop [...]

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Standout Jobs Chosen as One of Canada’s Hottest Startups

April 17, 2008

I’ve been way too quiet here lately which is a combination of going to ERE Expo, getting sick and being insanely busy. But I did want to make this quick announcement as an update to what’s going on with Standout Jobs.
Standout Jobs has been selected by CIX (Canadian Innovation Exchange) as one of Canada’s Hottest [...]

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The Challenge of Staying Focused in a Startup

April 8, 2008

Startups have a hard time staying focused. It’s the nature of the beast. The enthusiasm founders have for their startups can very quickly lead to chasing too many opportunities.
The big risk? Running in every direction, chasing every lead, idea and opportunity only to realize at the end that you’ve made very little progress. And [...]

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