Nathan Hirsch started FreeeUp in 2015 after spending 7+ years interviewing, hiring, and training remote workers. He decided that there must be a better way for eCommerce companies to hire remote workers without having to spend hours interviewing and finding the most reliable people. A year later FreeeUp is a rapidly growing company interviewing hundreds of worker applicants each week and providing remote workers for hundreds of clients.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Nathan’s mother
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I was a broke college kid looking for some extra beer money, I had a pretty good internship at the firestorm corporation but I realised that I didn’t want to do retail, I don’t know if you’ve ever done retail but it’s a lot of hours, it’s a lot of showing up for shifts and doing what you’re told like other jobs but I really realised that I couldn’t work for other people, so one of the biggest challenges that I faced was that I was going to school to get my degree to get a job but I knew that I didn’t want to get a job”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich Book by jimothy Ferriss
Favourite Quote:
“Work hard, play hard”
Recommended Online Resources:
Jira – offers flexible issue and project tracking with best in class agile tooling for software teams Enable your team with the 1 software development tool used by agile teams
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Diversify, if you’re running a business you can’t have all your eggs in one basket whether that means to have one vendor that you’re completely relying on or say if you own a bakery they’ll have one person that does the cashier, the baking, the books, whatever it is, don’t do that”…[Listen for More]
More About Nathan Hirsch:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“How can I find a way to overcome this?’ is a much better question than ‘Why is my life so bad?’ It’s the questions we ask ourselves that will determine how we live our life.” Steven Aitchison
Other Quotes From the Chat with Nathan Hirsch:
- “I encourage you to put yourself in a position to manage people for the first time, there’s very few people that start a successful company only by themselves, you almost always need a team around you and if you can’t manage that team effectively and come up with processes and systems that allow you to focus on expanding the business rather than managing the people, you’re not going to be successful”
- “Culture is everything”
- “I tell people what I can offer and what I can’t offer”
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