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Austin in San Francisco

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So when Austin said he wanted to move to San Francisco from eponymous Austin (Texas), supporting his move was a no-brainer. But wait, what if Austin finds a hot new startup in San Francisco and bails on us? But that prose is aimed at the founders, not employee #8. So welcome to San Francisco, Austin.

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Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

Both Sides of the Table

So we decided to sponsor Ryan to work out of the US in San Francisco. We told him we’d file all the legal papers, pay for his move and normalize his salary with San Francisco. When we started our next company, Koral, Ryan was a co-founder. I knew that meant he wouldn’t come back.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

There are those amongst us the are willing to abandon the comforts of a job with a salary and perhaps the prestige of being able to tell family members, loved ones and friends that “I work for Google, Goldman Sachs, Apple, FedEx, Verizon or Coca Cola” and instead put out selves out there to potentially look stupid one day.

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What salary does the founder of your favorite startup get? Probably not a very high one

The Next Web

If you’re a startup founder, how much should you pay yourself? The company collected salary data from 11,160 startups around the world that use its benchmarking tool. In Silicon Valley, 75% of founders pay themselves less than $75,000 per year and 66% pay themselves less than $50,000 per year, according to the data.

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How I Knew That I Could Bootstrap My Company

YoungUpstarts

by Aytekin Tank, founder & CEO of JotForm. Each hire is tremendously important to the lifeblood of the organization, and I made sure to have a year’s worth of salary in the bank before bringing a new co-worker on board. Aytekin Tank is the founder & CEO of JotForm , a SaaS online form building company based in San Francisco.

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Transformify: The Sustainable Platform for Remote Jobs

Transformify

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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Why That $1 Million Doesn’t Always Mean Your Crowdfunding Campaign Was A Success

YoungUpstarts

by Hannah Sieber, co-founder and COO of EcoFlow Tech. This could include the monthly salaries of the internal team working on the campaign and any expenses you may incur for transportation, food, etc. Crowdfunding has become common place for new products and new brands.

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