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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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The price of property has an inherent value tied to two factors: 1) the rental rate you could charge for your property and 2) annual salaries in a given geography. Most of these companies will not get big enough and earn enough profits to pay big enough salaries for teams. You’re stuck in the past.&#. I avoided much of this.

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

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In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. I’d also double the salaries of all highly qualified math and science teachers, staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. We had the consent of the acquiring company to take them yet US regulation prohibited it. You can imagine the complexities.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

Although most aren’t in a place to be startup cofounders for financial reasons, I now have access to a large talent pool once I can offer a salary. Many of us have said we’d love to work with one another again. With all the funded startups that are unable to hire, that’s a huge ace up my sleeve.

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I Quit My Job And Lived To Tell

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I had built up a small writing client base on nights and weekends, scrimped and saved every penny I could from my salary into a “buffer fund,” and set up a home office all tricked out in a writer’s must haves (computer, printer, chocolate stash). You’re too young to leave the rat race, aren’t you?

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Cracking The Code: Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. However, it does not mention whether there is a base salary associated with the plan and if so what it is. Id appreciate any comments on how this would change as a base salary is added to the mix. internet. (6).

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Practically this means that you’ll outsource (most likely off-shore) your design and development, you’ll rent your servers, you won’t have an office and you’ll have no salary. Posted by: Serkan | September 10, 2007 4:44 AM Thanks Serkan - the next post will be up soon. Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 4:46 AM Good read but.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Low salary. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It was 2007.