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Rudy Lacovara
The hiring app for small business , HireFlo
http://blog.hireflo.comhttp://rlacovara.blogspot.com
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Member since September 20, 2011
VEQ: TD-PM-FM
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I am a(n):
Bootstrapping Single Founder, 2 time Entrepreneur, and very opinionated Engineer
Companies I've founded or co-founded:
JustTechJobs, CareerSoft, HireFlo
Startups I worked for:
JustTechJobs, CareerSoft, HireFlo
If you are an entrepreneur, why?
I don't have a choice. I couldn't do it any other way.
My favorite startups:
StackExchange, SendGrid, Stripe, and anything by Rob Walling
What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
The most frustrating thing is interactions with the regular work world. Nobody else moves as fast as you move, and nobody seems to care as much about getting things right.
The rewarding thing is the joy of building something, and the independence that it brings.
What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?
It may just be my circle, and it may be the fact that I'm more of a bootstrapper, but I talk to a lot of people who make the mistake of thinking fund raising is the same thing as building a business. It's not. It's not even close.
I think it's better to assume you will never be funded. That means you have to start with something small and you have to spend your time building the business, trying to reaching product market fit. Build something that will succeed without funding.
What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?
1. Stop talking and start doing
2. It's going to wrong the first couple of times so don't get discouraged
3. Don't stop doing it until you succeed
Full bio
I'm a multiple startup founder and prominent engineer in the .Net community.
I've worked in the online hiring and software as a service space for over 8 years. First as co-founder of JustTechJobs and later as co-founder of CareerSoft, I've seen the hiring problems experienced by hundreds of small businesses. Now I've put all those lessons learned into a single product, HireFlo.
I've also worked as a consultant for IBM, MediaOne Group, Qwest, Samsonite, and others. My specialty is helping teams bring legacy code under control, and rearchitecting solutions that will scale.
