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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey

TechCrunch

The expense involved in recruiting, training and onboarding a new employee who turns out to be a poor fit could be equivalent to 50% of that person’s first-year salary. “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself.

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CIOs take aim at Silicon Valley talent

CIO

Rau hired a former Apple colleague who approached him and was incentivized by the offer to run the software engineering team at the Indianapolis-based Lilly after hearing about the types of projects he could work on. “I . … Engineers throughout millennia want to do something that’s bigger than themselves and can last.”

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Solana Blockchain Software Development Services

Mobilunity

Solana was developed by Anatoly Yakovenko and is praised for its ability to perform many more transactions than other platforms in much shorter time. Now, to start building Dapps on Solana, you will need a developer on your side. The idea is that the Solana dApp development solutions are decentralized to keep the process secure.

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Despite the venture slowdown, fintech startups are still hiring

TechCrunch

companies “gaining attention and recruiting top talent.” The company is looking for customer-focused skills and asks candidates to tell them about “a time you learned something from a team member that changed your mind or widened your perspective.” Brex is 100% remote. Earlier this year, Solvo raised a $3.5

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5 Benefits of Outsourcing That Make Sense for Saas

UruIT

Since we started in 2007, we’ve seen SaaS booming especially in the talent management, financial, commercial real estate and construction industries , and a new breed that’s exploring the advantages of AI and blockchain. Therefore, working with a nearshore team is an efficient way to expend their time and budget.

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Top 7 Tips to Ensure Employee Satisfaction in Your Real Estate Brokerage

Strategy Driven

If you want to attract the best of the best real estate agents to your brokerage, it’s crucial to ensure employee satisfaction. Indeed, even the best recruitment strategies will fail if you people keep leaving your brokerage every few months. Develop a Recognition System. People want to be appreciated for their hard work.

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Urban Innovation Fund, VMG Catalyst among female-led firms raising new funds

TechCrunch

Prior to starting Urban Innovation Fund, Brenner was in commercial real estate development and met Lein, who was doing political polling and consulting, at business school at MIT. Urban Innovation Fund is a 100% woman-owned firm and 77% of the companies it backs have had a woman or a person of color on the founding team.