Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

You’ll need the EIN to pay taxes for your business, apply for licenses and permits, open a bank account, and hire and pay employees. Develop a founders agreement. A founders’ agreement is a legal contract defining and governing the relationship between cofounders. Also, you can invest in business accounting software.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 17, 2015

by Max Yoder, co-founder and CEO of Lesson.ly. Having a simplified training process not only makes hiring easier, but helps your employees feel more confident in their employers. Studies show that employees who participate in solid training programs stay at least three years 69 percent of the time. Training software: Lesson.ly.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2015

by Max Yoder, co-founder and CEO of Lesson.ly. Having a simplified training process not only makes hiring easier, but helps your employees feel more confident in their employers. Studies show that employees who participate in solid training programs stay at least three years 69 percent of the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Creative or operational.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

User experience research or UX research, shouldn’t be limited to A/B testing programs only. As Des Traynor , co-founder of Intercom put it in the Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done book : Des Traynor: Some products are better defined by the job they do than the customers they serve. Do User Experience Research.

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Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2018

Aside from the time-consuming tasks of screening potential employees, interviewing, and re-hiring , losing and replacing employees is expensive. On average, it costs nearly three times an employee’s salary to replace them. Hire the right people. It wasn’t what I was hired to do, but it was liberating.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Traveling around the world, I met startup founders, forex traders, marketers, online shop owners, travel bloggers, Instagram influencers and digital business entrepreneurs of all kinds. Tech startups were running out of cash prior to launching great products over talent shortage and ever-increasing salaries and rents.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Instead the business press dumped on the founders for “selling out.” Many founders mentioned this as a reason not to incorporate or grow their companies in Finland.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2020

As a great example, we had a chance to interview, Jim Elliott, Founder and President of Diveheart. Diveheart also has a robust outreach and education program around the world that we use to inspire people of all abilities to imagine the possibilities in their lives. Jim Elliott, Founder and President, Diveheart.org.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. So I did that kind of stuff. It was all technical.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Almost all of it is in one giant fixed-cost bucket: salaries. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2018

Hiring your first employee is exciting and time-consuming. Still, there’s more — from legal requirements to onboarding, keep these steps in mind as you hire your first employee. Get the legal logistics worked out before hiring anyone — this will save you from potentially costly mistakes and fines in the future. Hire for Passion.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

That may seem intimidating, but programming is not some monumental skill that only specially gifted people can learn. Bishay would charge tuition but would refund it if the students got jobs as developers and he earned a recruitment fee from the hiring company. The program lasts 10 weeks and has tuition of $12,000.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. However, hiring the wrong salespeople costs dearly in time and treasure. Furthermore, prospects will want to speak to founders that have high domain knowledge and the authority to reduce the fear of risk associated with a young company. Define sales team structure.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 18, 2012

Conventional wisdom among smart technology entrepreneurs says not to hire people with Masters in Business Administration (MBAs) into startups. Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint, expressed the sentiment well when he said: “ When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.”

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Alternative Capital. “

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Creative or operational.

Software 129

Software Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete 129

YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2018

Hiring your first employee is exciting and time-consuming. Still, there’s more — from legal requirements to onboarding, keep these steps in mind as you hire your first employee. Get the legal logistics worked out before hiring anyone—this will save you from potentially costly mistakes and fines in the future. Hire for Passion.

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Hiring Employee Cofounder Salary 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2014

by Nathan Parcells , co-founder and CMO of InternMatch. To stick with your level of growth, you hire like-minded professionals who will readily snap into your company culture, both personally and professionally. This means posting a robust job description, company information, salary details, and links to additional information.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks. For a well-funded seed company I have controversially recommended hiring a great office manager that doubles as an administrative assistant. It’s the norm more than you think.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2017

by Reuben Yonatan, founder and CEO of GetVoIP and GetCRM. Sales representatives literally represent your company and its values, so you never want to hire anyone – especially those who are customer-facing – who would take either lightly. Of course, implementing some type of referral program may help to get the ball rolling.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. I’ve heard people say it’s impossible to hire good developers right now. I want to hire before I have the ability to pay anyone.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). Database Expertise: MSSQL/MySQL – Relational database design and programming, stored procedures, triggers, reporting, and administration. Drowning American. Skip to primary content.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

Key Takeaways Mandi Ellefson, founder of Hands-off CEO, shares her journey from overwhelming debt to multimillionaire status by transforming consulting agencies into self-sustaining enterprises. My husband lives in a demanding graduate medical program. You start hiring freelancers and then maybe employees.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I was in this situation and we barely escaped.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2014

He breaks down his position clearly, by stating that “in 1975, more than 65 percent of salaried American workers earned time-and-a-half pay for every hour worked over 40 hours a week [.] By 2013, just 11 percent of salaried workers qualified for overtime pay, according to a report published by the Economic Policy Institute.”.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

And how much are variable expenses (salaries, consultants, commission, travel, AWS/Azure charges, supplies, etc.?). If it’s just three-months, (looking more unlikely by the day) then an immediate freeze on variable spending (hires, marketing, travel, etc.) How much are fixed expenses (those you can’t change, i.e. rent?)

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

We want to avoid the trap that many companies fall into of forcing good programmers to stop programming and start managing people, if thats not what they want to do. We will also compare our salaries within each level to the competitive norms to make sure we are paying market salaries, at which point people might receive a raise.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking. Similarly, we have an ongoing program to introduce our companies to later-round VCs, and have more credibility in presenting our companies to other investors than an independent investment banker would have.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

For the tech savvy this might include reading an intro book on programming. For the less tech savvy check for a summary and history of the programming language on Wikipedia. Don’t be too specific – you do not need to include the programming language, etc. The answer to this requires a small amount of research.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Demand generation combines marketing tactics, strategies and programs to create awareness and drive interest in your products or services. They typically report to a CMO, VP of Marketing, or director of demand generation and work to plan, build, and execute marketing programs. What is a demand generation manager and why do they matter?

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 3, 2017

Gross profit, markup versus margin, salary versus profit, break even point in dollars versus number of projects, current assets versus liabilities, cost to complete – all these are merely a handful of the KPIs that are instrumental to sustainability and growth. Know you market niche. Know where to invest, and where to cut costs. Mike Bruno).

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. The fact is the technical co-founder will be doing more work at the start. The number one thing holding back new startups is funding.

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