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Seven Ways To Make Sure Accountability Sticks In 2014

YoungUpstarts

That’s why you should kick off your 2014 accountability revolution with a meeting of the minds. Use this meeting to get consensus on what the core values and behaviors need to be to support the company’s strategies and goals for 2014, and emphasize that everyone, starting with the key leaders, will be held accountable for demonstrating them.

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5 Ways to Support Freelancers and Improve Collaboration

The Startup Magazine

workforce soared from 17 to 28 percent between 2014 and 2019 and has been continually growing since the pandemic. Afterward, ask them their expected salary for the project and their availability. Freelancing is a booming industry right now, with great talent pools available. The percentage of full-time freelancers in the U.S.

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Investors Measure Entrepreneurs By Cashflow Mileage

Startup Professionals Musings

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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How Much Founder Stock Should You Offer Co-Founders?

Startup Professionals Musings

Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/28/2014. You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology or money. The first question I usually get is what percent of the company or equity is that person worth?

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

There are those amongst us the are willing to abandon the comforts of a job with a salary and perhaps the prestige of being able to tell family members, loved ones and friends that “I work for Google, Goldman Sachs, Apple, FedEx, Verizon or Coca Cola” and instead put out selves out there to potentially look stupid one day.

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Small Business and Startups: The Top 10 Business Books of 2014

crowdSPRING Blog

Smith of the Washington Post described 2014 as a good year for book lovers, they probably weren’t referring to texts of the business variety. Replacing employees can cost up to 400 percent of their annual salary, so encouraging them to stay put is a wise move. Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II).

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What equality in tech looks like in 2017

Transformify

In 1985, the percentage of female graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science was 37% compared to just 17% in 2014. This prejudice reportedly resulted in women receiving lower salary offers than men for the same job at the same company 63 percent of the time. 20 years ago, the picture was different.