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When Do Startups Need In-House IT Help?

ReadWriteStart

Perhaps you are about to blast an email marketing message, or just trying to find an important file. Even if you're a star coder, as your business grows there will come a moment when you're going to need IT help on a full-time basis. An ill-timed technology meltdown can be catastrophic for a vulnerable startup.

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Job interviews go both ways (My story with Netscape in ’98)

Diego Basch

I was told that I was interviewing to replace employee #7 (everyone talked about their own employee number) who was leaving because he was fully vested that month (red flag). One manager talked about how they were a bit bummed because Yahoo had just surpassed their market valuation. Maybe they had four thousand employees at the time.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

Marketing Intern. How long should people vest – four years? Investors routinely subject founder shares to vesting, but there is no rule that says that founders cannot, or should not, impose vesting on themselves. And the vesting doesn’t necessarily need to be time-based either. Mission Statement.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Take the market and break it down into smaller chunks. If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. Why do I do it?

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

www.quora.com

This is a far cry from a sustainable business, product-market fit, and a long ways from profitability in most cases. Even better, executives will negotiate the acquisition price of their company down; in exchange for a larger amount of post-acquisition retentio n equity and accelerated vesting.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

A” round investors or late-stage seed investors will take a market risk (they want to see the product, vision and maybe even the first customers, and they bet on there being a big enough market). “B” If we didn’t describe you, than watch out because you’ll be pushed out of the market before you’re even in. what is your ratio? (0:37:35).