With another year in the rearview mirror, 2023 is like an open road: empty at first, with some worrying signs, but we won’t know when or if the unexpected will appear. So what can we do about it? The keyword is balance. Balance out your speed, plan your route for all scenarios and keep your … Read more
You know how flowers grow from seeds and can only grow if their needs which vary from one stage of growth to another are met? Tech startups and scale-ups follow the same principle: they reach successive stages of growth with the amount of people they hire. This means that hiring priorities depend on the growth … Read more
A thought experiment I trust you heard this before: “People are the most important thing in building our startup” – basically any founder So if people are such a strategic asset to a startup or scaleup, why not actually perceive them as such? And no, this article is not another rant on the importance of … Read more
Update As per 5th of June 2020, the official unemployment numbers came out. Corrected for earlier errors in the unemployment numbers (due to misclassification), the official unemployment number is quite high at 16.3% (or 27 million), but not as bad as we expected it to be based on the numbers below. There is potentially still … Read more