Recruit Rockstars 380: Grow Your Company Faster by Experimenting More
Small experiments often lead to ginormous breakthroughs for your business. Including revenue increases. So, why do most of us get stuck in a rut? I wanted to find the answer. So, I tracked down an expert… Stefan Thomke is an authority on Innovation. He’s the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business at Harvard Business School. […]
Recruit Rockstars 379: Ready to Ride the Gazelle?
CEO’s often ask my favorite book. Right near the top of the list is “Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t” by Verne Harnish. Verne is Founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 14,000 members worldwide, and teaches the “Birthing of Giants” held at MIT. Verne’s company, Gazelles […]
Recruit Rockstars 378: From Car Wash to VC-Backed CEO
Great tech startup ideas can come from anywhere. This one came from the waiting room of a high-end car wash. Following a successful career in sales with med device maker Medtronic, Brent Oakley started Prime Car Wash, now with 5 locations. In the process, he discovered how setting the right mood creates an exceptional customer […]
Recruit Rockstars 377: How a Chicago Attorney Founded a VC-Backed Rocketship
You don’t find many attorneys running VC-backed tech startups. But here’s one. Jacob Babcock is Founder & CEO of NuCurrent, which recently raised another $11M. With over 100 patents, NuCurrent is the leading developer of high-efficiency wireless power solutions. They work closely with electronic device OEMs & integrators to determine the best implementation of wireless […]
Recruit Rockstars 376: Unicorn Founder Shares His 2021 Talent Strategy
Even if you don’t live in his hometown of Chicago, you should know Chris Gladwin. Because he’s a 6-time Founder… including at least one Unicorn. Chris is CEO & Co-Founder of Ocient, which has created the leading high-performance database & analytics platform for the world’s largest datasets. Ocient’s database handles datasets in the petabyte to […]
Recruit Rockstars 375: How to Change Your Luck in 2021
Your luck is about to change. And after 2020, we could all use some of that. But it doesn’t just happen… You need to make it happen. Even the most successful business leaders will tell you that luck & serendipity played a huge role in their ride. Warren Buffett famously said that much of his […]
Recruit Rockstars 374: The Nicest VC-Backed Tech CEO?
Humble. Soft-spoken. Not your typical tech CEO. That’s Mike Gamson, CEO of Relativity and one of Chicago’s most seasoned tech executives & investors. Relativity’s software helps users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Its e-discovery platform is used by thousands of organizations to manage large volumes of data and quickly identify key […]
Recruit Rockstars Podcast Episode 373: How He’s Scaling the Team 6x in One Year
Talk about a rocketship… Fishtown Analytics, named for Philly’s hip namesake neighborhood, started this year with 16 employees. Next year, it’ll have over 100. I wanted to find out how CEO Tristan Handy is doing it. He Co-Founded Fishtown, which created the open-source data engineering platform named dbt (“data build tool”) that’s used by thousands […]
Recruit Rockstars 372: He Raised $35M VC so that You Can Hire Remotely
Here’s the perfectly-named & ideally-timed company of 2020: Remote. Its CEO & Co-Founder, Job van der Voort, is based in Portugal. And he just raised $35M in Venture Capital so that You can hire the best people remotely in just an hour… Even across the globe. The pandemic has been rough on the work world. […]
Recruit Rockstars 371: His Software Might be the Most Important You’ll Ever Own
Hopefully you haven’t had to deal with it. I’m talking about employee ethics breaches. Not fun. But unfortunately, one day you will. So I tracked down J Rollins, CEO & Founder of Ethix360, to take a look. Based in Charlotte NC, its software manages employee ethics issues, breaches, and compliance. Clients include global leaders in […]
