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Follow This Six-Point Checklist To Strengthen Employee Onboarding

YoungUpstarts

These companies also see a 69% boost in new hire retention. Studies show that among software engineers in India, new employees sought out more information when they were socialized within the organization. The cost of one failed executive for a company is 213% of their salary, according to the Center for American Progress.

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How to Identify and Attract the Best Software Development Talent

Transformify

Below are a few important things you should include in your job post: Offer Competitive Salary Packages Software development is a highly sought-after and competitive field. One way to do that is to offer competitive salary packages. But always keep in mind that onboarding the best talent doesn't guarantee retention.

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How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness

ConversionXL

By meeting buyers’ post-purchase needs , you’ll improve customer retention. There are several ways to calculate it, but here’s a basic formula: Average order value x Number of repeat transactions x Average retention time. To get a realistic picture of how your business is doing, you need to also account for customer retention.

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How to Grow Your App Startup Organically with App Store Optimization (ASO)

ConversionXL

How to leverage app store optimization (ASO) to improve app visibility, conversion rates, and retention. But ASO, like search engine optimization, fails when worshipped like a false god. A positive and engaging experience to improve retention is just as important as downloads or conversions (if not more).

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The Acquihire Market for Early Stage Startups is Ice Cold. One Better Strategy? Announce You’re For Sale.

Hunter Walker

per engineer.” Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. “Worst case scenario we’ll sell to a larger startup or public company for about ~$1.5m of the time my answer is no f **g way].

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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

You Don’t Need Rockstar Engineers” with Dan Murrel Jr and Karen White @ BigCommerce Once upon a time in computing, it was thought that in addition to junior and senior software engineers, companies needed superhumans that could do the work of many: the mythical rockstar engineer. You don’t need rockstar engineers.

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A VC: Employee Equity: How Much?

www.avc.com

The second bracket is Director level managers and key people (engineering and design superstars for sure). The third bracket are employees who are in the key functions like engineering, product, marketing, etc. Then you multiply the employee's base salary by the multiplier to get to a dollar value of equity.

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