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Nonprofit Embezzlement Cases: Examples to Learn From

Board Effect

68% of for-profit and governmental organizations instituted a review of internal controls by management as compared with 44% of nonprofits. losses due to corporate abuse and accounting fraud. Despite enjoying an attractive salary and benefits package that totaled over $460,000, a CEO of a large charitable organization embezzled $1.2

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself. By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. From the middle to 2005 to early 2010 the business was break-even or better every quarter.

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Some Practical Advice on Executive Compensation at Startups

Altgate

 By this point, your sales team and hopefully your head of sales are already on commission plans (or at least partially so).  If you have an important software release coming up, that could be included.  Or perhaps you want to have internal performance reviews or customer satisfaction included.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code.

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

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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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? What did you do again? Who knows.