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Road to Hire to Bring Paid Tech Training and Job Access to Under-Resourced Young Adults (18–25) in…

Austin Startup

with full benefits and an average starting salary of $55,000 or more. Vanessa Baker, an August 2020 Road to Hire graduate, who is now a successful software engineer at Bank of America in Charlotte, said, “The power of Road to Hire to invest in and build the next generation of tech professionals cannot be quantified.

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Champing At The Bit: Can You Pay Your Workers In Bitcoin?

YoungUpstarts

First and foremost, federal and state law may not allow employers to use bitcoin to pay employees’ salaries. A better option is to agree to pay employees in traditional currency that is automatically converted to bitcoin (assuming the employees agree in writing to such a conversion) or pay bitcoin only as a discretionary bonus.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Something to keep extroverts from dominating the conversation and. My father owned PT business in New York and saw first-hand the financial toll of having to wait on long payment cycles, often not taking a salary for months before payments arrived. Surely there must be a way for smart people to share their thoughts with the boss.