Alex Kaminski's Blog
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What questions to ask a potential hire?
Recently we were looking for a new developer intern at AdExchanged (If you’re interested in the position, let us know). Since we’re using ASP.NET and very few college students have experience with that platform I wanted to come up with 10 quick and easy questions that would determine how much knowledge the applicant had. I [...]
Make your users happy or die.
The relationship a company has with their customers is critical to any business. But this relationship is so much more important for a startup. As a startup, we don’t have the luxury of millions of users (so that we can ignore a couple users) and hundreds (or thousands) of employees (to have customer service departments). [...]
Help! Someone stole my startup idea!
You had an idea that was going to revolutionize life as we know it. And now, someone stole your startup idea. So, what do you do? The answer is simple, execute faster and better. Competition is good, even for startups. The fact that other people are trying to steal your startup idea means that you’re [...]