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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

YoungUpstarts

It’s a massive shift in the way we think about commerce, one that is made possible thanks to platform businesses — the online marketplaces, small business cloud-based companies and crowdfunding sites out there. During the same time, the US labor force lost over a million private wage and salary workers.

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The New Bottom-Up Economic Revolution

YoungUpstarts

In the same time period, it actually lost more than one million private wage and salary workers. Of course, much of the losses in wages and salaries were a result of the recession but the proprietor trend has steadily increased every year since 2000. By our count, there are over 500 business tools serving this bottom-up economy.

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Outraged by Executive Compensation? Put Entrepreneurs In Charge.

Seeing Both Sides

  In 2001/2002, it was Tyco’s CEO Dennis Koszlowski spending $1 million of shareholder money on his wife’s 40 th birthday party (mine is coming up this summer, by the way, and I don’t think it will cost my LPs very much at all, really).   Moritz views high salaries with immense suspicion.   I am too.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

As someone who grew up using and ultimately becoming frustrated with the limitations of Microsoft tools, and grew up submitting and hating small-business expense reports, I hope I can convince you that we’re fighting for the same goals. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002.

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