YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

In many companies, employees in Sales don’t know much about what’s happening in Accounting. Simple things like gratitude, respect, and autonomy make people far more happy than, say, big salaries and corner offices. Your employees probably won’t care as much as you think they will if their suggestions don’t become reality.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

We started the Barefoot Wine brand in our laundry room in 1986, made it a nationwide bestseller, and successfully sold the brand to E&J Gallo in 2005. Consider offering bonuses based on sales, cost reductions, and customer retention. Use performance-based compensation. We were chastised for “overpaying” salespeople.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Jason Bay is a leading sales expert, and he talks with other leading sales experts to get you the information you need. And some, I talked to one doctor who started taking less and less shifts to put more and more focus and you know, the starting salary there is already pretty good, but the podcast is doing better.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

 By this point, your sales team and hopefully your head of sales are already on commission plans (or at least partially so). .  What's more, there is probably little money in the company so to promise cash payments based on metrics without knowing the ability to pay is a bad idea.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

While France is very strong on the engineering side, attracting foreign sales, marketing and product talents is often necessary. The Netherlands has a special tax regime for expatriates - known as the 30% regulation – which entitles them to a tax-free cost reimbursement of 30% of the salary (with some technical adjustments).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

And yes, a higher-than-average salary will often prevent employees from jumping ship and going over to the competition. For that reason, Barefoot offered our employees bonuses for sales, cost reductions, customer retention, and more. Share the wealth (as long as people are helping create it, that is).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 1, 2010

For the first five years, roughly from 2000 to 2005, my income from the Internet varied, reflecting the choices I had made and my own variable focus. I started a proofreading business , which after a slow start, eventually earned enough income to pay me a full salary, equivalent to a first year university graduate.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Our direct sales group markets and sells our solutions primarily using the telephone and web-based demonstrations. During the years ended March 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we achieved positive operating cash flows of $0.3 million for 2005, $3.0 million, $0.9 million and $1.8 million, respectively, and used $0.7

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

After the year was over, I landed a job as a sales person for a property portal in Dubai. The year was 2005, and the real estate was booming. I quickly proved myself and was promoted to head a small sales and marketing team (6 people) in the company. I had been doing B2B sales for several years, and I was really good at it.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I made them a pretty good offer – hire me as a training instructor at the salary they were going to pay me as a lab technician. Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech still says it best - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. So I got hired for the second time at ESL, this time as a training instructor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

of startup businesses as far back as 2005. Startups can rarely afford or even attract the young superstar C-level executives they covet – these people want big salaries, big staffs, and big budgets – who are also known to push founders out of the way. High-travel sales and buyer positions. Retail sales to Gen-X and Gen-Y.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) The woman in charge of sales was so tenacious that I used to feelsorry for potential customers on the phone with her. Stephen Hawkings editor told him that every equationhe included in his book would cut sales in half. At sales I was not very good.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

By generating a steady revenue from consulting projects and sales, the founders were able to spend time growing their business slowly. Founders Paul Farnell, Matthew Brindley, and David Smalley started Litmus in 2005 with a used computer and $800 dollars. How’d they do it? How’d they do it?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. For example, VCs generally write it into the deal thatin any sale, they get their investment back first. Some VCsnow require that in any sale they get 4x their investment backbefore the common stock holders (that is, you) get anything, butthis is an abuse that should be resisted.

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Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

Basically the survey collects salary, cash bonus and equity information for the top executives in private companies (mostly venture- and preventure-backed companies). If you haven’t seen the results of this survey before, I’m including both of last year’s unabridged reports results below. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Back in 2005 … (movie studios) were very worried about piracy, and were also worried that the whole digital world was coming on like a freight train and they really didn’t understand it. They gave me study leave, they gave me salary during time. I went with my boss to make my very first sales call. (It Basically she won.” .

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 22, 2013

It was 2005. Cliff wasn’t taking a salary. He has seen us through the sale of Cliff’s second startup, our wedding, the birth of our child and the birth of Cliff’s current company Mocavo, all major life transitions. It seems simple enough. You are having problems, things have changed, you get help.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Options and future value are great ‘add ons’ but not for a welfare check salary until ‘this great idea makes it.’ The second one not until 2005. ’ Maybe this article is a little too simplistic, a fairy tale. Maybe I’m wrong or just know all the wrong people. get to know each other first, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. Hardware ate just over 10% of the round.

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Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Otherwise, for those yet-another-facebook-type social web apps, just hire competent programmers and give them salary and perks that normal professionals expect, and not hope that their compulsion covers for your managerial incompetence and angel investor micromanaging idiocy. Technical people can smell a fake from a mile away. Michael Chan.

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