So Many Of My Rookie Mistakes Could

Understanding Your Employee's Perspective Can Go A Long Way Towards Increasing Productivity And Happiness.

We Knew When We Started The Daily Muse, We Wanted A Recruiting-focused Business Model Rather Than An Advertising-focused One. We Felt Like Publishers Were Being Forced To Go To More And More Extreme Lengths To Monetize Through Advertising.

My First Company Failed Completely. And It Failed At About Ten Months Old. I Had About 12 Months Of Savings, So When It Failed I Was Thinking: 'do I Go Back To Work?' And At That Point I Believed So Deeply In What I Was Doing That I Couldn't Imagine Anything Else Other Than Trying To Make This Business Work.

For Almost The First Year Of The Muse's Life, I Would Do 5 To 8 Networking Events A Week. And I Don't Necessarily Think That's The Right Path For Everyone, But I Realized That As An Entrepreneur, One Of My Strengths Was Finding The Right People Who Could Help Us. I Didn't Come Into Startups With Any Network.

I Had Been A Veteran Of Pretty Challenging Job Searches, So I Knew Firsthand How Frustrating, Confusing, And Demoralizing The Job Search Process Can Be. Even After You Get A Job, Many People Join Companies And Discover In The First Couple Weeks That They Aren't A Good Match With The Personality And Values Of The Company.