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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Your best defense against slippage is making the right hires in the first place.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Everybody was doing marketing blitzes, over-paying to steal the best staff, pimping out urban offices to the nines , and hiring in a frenzy. Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. Double-down on great people, process & IP. Everybody was raising a shit-ton of money.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? Most NDAs I have seen are very one-sided and have unreasonable time limits, which in the tech sector are sometimes moot. dan.sanderson. | Jay Smooth.

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Transcript of Creating a Winning SEO Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

In other words, if you’re trying to check on results and track results, sometimes it’s a little challenging if your IP address is in Kansas City, Missouri. Let’s hire freelance writers. I mean there’s probably 2000 words on that page, but then links off to in a very logical way.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. www.elance.com and hire from eastern europe. Maple Butter. Search for: Videos.

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

If you work with.NET be prepared to pay $1000-2000 for an MSDN subscription (or if you’re developing a product talk to Bob Walsh , get signed up with Microsoft BizSpark and get the same thing for a few hundred bucks). You can only hire other people to do so much. 2 AJ Finch on 01.08.09 Thanks #3 Matt Youell on 01.08.09

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Transcript of Does Everybody Need to Write a Book to Be Successful?

Duct Tape Marketing

I realized, it took me about two months because I’m slow, but I realized that scribes have been doing this for 2000 years. I fired myself as CEO of my company, and we hired a real CEO professional who’d done this a bunch. Jesus never wrote anything down, apostles did. Socrates never wrote anything down, Plato did.