“Hiring people is an art, not a science. And resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into an organization culture.” – Howard Schultz. Identifying suitable candidates to fill a position is demanding, and processing these applicants after they undergo the standard hiring processes of interviews and assessments doesn’t get any easier. The person waiting on the interview pod might just be the one to break your current sales record or elevate your business to a whole new level. But …
Author: Kenneth Lopez
This post is for young entrepreneurs worldwide so they can understand the real meaning of the role; this will change as your startup matures, and it will be very different in a corporation. Let’s go for the beginning. What’s a CEO? According to Wikipedia is: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the highest-ranking corporate officer (executive) or administrator in charge of the total management of an organization. An individual appointed CEO of a corporation, company, organization, or agency typically reports to …
Every startup is different and needs startup business ideas, but often the mistakes are similar; in my case, here are the biggest mistakes that we made that allowed us to be stronger. 1) Hire the wrong people: The heart of our company is its people; without our team, we are nothing. That is the number one reason that we started the development team in Peru. We got our first contract fast, and luckily it was for a Spanish company! Rushed …
Creating a product could be a complex process, and it takes a mix of skills, including a technical background. The idea of this post is to help non-technical founders in this journey with questions that, based on my experience as a founder of a company, could prevent mistakes that clients made when they built a product. How deep is your understanding of technology? Being a non-technical founder, your main goal is not to learn how to code, but you must …
Hiring is the most critical part of any team/organization/company’s business strategy. Without a great team, you have nothing. The title of the post is Hiring Rock Stars, and yes, that is what all startups want and what you should be looking for, but depending on the maturity of the startup and the stage it is in, it will definitely require a different focus in terms of the seniority and experience of the candidates you are going to be hiring. Startup …
I could probably write down 10,000 mistakes, but all of these would only work out if you have a growth mindset, especially in the context of early-stage startups. Remember that trying and failing is the only way to do something great. 1) Choosing the wrong co-founder: I made my fair share of mistakes with this topic in many of the companies that I started; in some, we were three founders; in other cases, we were only two people, and finally, …
In many cases, one of the founders usually became the CEO of the startup and scaled with it; that was not my case; there is no good or bad answer about this; it will depend on each entrepreneur. I always like to build startups/companies that do not rely on me, so from the beginning of Tekton, I was always looking for a new CEO. When we talk about a CEO meaning in business, it is the chief executive officer, the …
What is culture? The best definition I like is that an organization culture is what happens when the founder or leader is not there. I genuinely believe that the significant reason Why Tekton survived all the challenges we faced was because of the team we were able to have, and all this was thanks to our culture; we have a lot and some very critical issues along the way. In this article I will explain examples of culture, you will …
