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The Santa Solution To Finding And Keeping Good Employees

YoungUpstarts

Santa has his elves and business leaders have their employees; so let’s what Santa has to teach the entrepreneur about working with a staff: Hire only the best. Can you imagine Santa Clause hiring a grouchy elf or one that didn’t know one end of a hammer from the other? Not on your candy cane! Image credit: Wikipedia ].

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Here’s how the pitch sounds from the engineer’s perspective: ‘For ten whole percent of equity, you will slave away to build a prototype out of my shitty idea, not have any say in the decision-making process…and oh yeah, you could be fired at any point.’ Date for a bit, then split the equity.

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