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Podolsky: Startups must hire core technical talent before HR staff
“Don't start by hiring an HR person. No. Hire first technical person. Hire first persons that you can incentivize and make them interested in your project.”
Podolsky: WiserBrand leadership runs daily 30-minute standups with five minutes per leader
“In one company, every day, 30 minutes, every morning, US time. There are six of us, so that's five minutes each. And we talk only about very important stuff, what's on the table today. And that has been very efficient. That's for the Wiser brand, for consultin…”
Podolsky: Companies remain fully bootstrapped with zero outside investor or bank capital
“Our companies are completely bootstrapped. We never go out and ask for money. Investors or banks. We run our companies very lean, and we only invest our own money.”
Podolsky wrote handwritten thank-you letters to the parents of top managers
“I have a company at that time, two years ago, 80 people, ah, and they have 10 top managers. I've taken 10 pieces of paper, and they wrote a thank you letter to their parents. So I have 10 heads of departments. It was a Christmas party, and for that Christmas p…”
Podolsky reached profitability in three months on a $100 initial investment
“Our first company that we've started, we've invested a hundred dollars each. It was profitable months three.”
WiserBrand employs only two US partners, offshoring the rest to Ukraine
“There is no employees besides two partners in the United States. Everything else is being done out of Ukraine.”
Podolsky in-housed development by having hires shadow offshore contractors
“So I started hiring internal developers that were working side by side with that vendor already in my office. And over a period of a year we were bringing on more and more developers in house while reducing our staff with a development vendor. And at some poin…”