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Why I Dread the Scooter to School
Little Miss Mau has three ways of getting to school. The first is her push bike. She started on it at about a year and a half old, kicking along with her feet. The…
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Short stories and sharp opinions on hiring and building teams, from HireUA founder Kyle Mau.
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An Open Letter to Anyone Still Doing Their Own Invoicing
There’s a trap in business ownership nobody really talks about. You start delegating everything. The easy stuff goes first. Then the execution. Then the day-to-day operations. Eventually you…
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I Quit Corporate, Then Rebuilt It
I quit corporate life because I hated working in a company. Then I spent years avoiding building one myself. Information products. Freelancers. Maybe a Virtual Assistant. That was…
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How a Broken Heart Got Me Hired (Cheesy)
I once told a hiring manager about my first girlfriend breaking up with me. In a job interview. For a six-figure position at Hitachi Data Systems. She’d broken…
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Hire the Ones Who’ll Learn It
At Little Miss Mau’s school, we had a meeting with all the parents. The teacher said something like, “Don’t be concerned if your kids come home speaking languages…
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80% of the Calls Come on 20% of the Days
When my team came to visit me for a team-building trip, I naturally took them to the golf course. We filmed some content, and all four of them…
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Progress Is Cumulative, Results Are Volatile
Everybody wants business growth to look like a straight line from the bottom left of the chart to the top right. More customers every month, more revenue every…
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The Salt Shaker
Danny Meyer has a story in his book Setting the Table that I think about more than I’d like to admit. On every table in his restaurants there’s…
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The Dumbest Thing I Did All Week
I did something dumb this week. I searched “Virtual Assistant services” on Google and clicked on every single result on the first two pages. You know what I…
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How Applebee’s Is $80 for 2 Is Beyond Me
My parents took us to Applebee’s growing up. It was the “we’re not cooking tonight” restaurant. Nothing fancy. Nobody pretended the food was good. It was just…easy. And…
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The Pretzel Muncher Problem
When I was selling headphones at Bose, I learned something that changed how I think about sales, hiring, and honestly just business in general… The worst thing you…
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Environmental Experience Realities
An Executive Assistant with eight years of experience at a Fortune 500 company applied for a role with one of our clients. Resume was flawless. References were excellent.…
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The Resume With 117 Different Tools & Skills
Candidates are listing every tool they’ve ever opened on their resumes because they want to sound as impressive as possible. They don’t get it. Salesforce. HubSpot. Monday. Asana.…
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