A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

A virtual assistant (VA) is a remote worker hired to complete tasks you should not be doing as the founder of a startup. These hiring arrangements are described below: Task-based — ($3-10/hour overseas, $12-50/hour in the U.S.) I've had the best results hiring VA's in the Philippines. What is a Virtual Assistant?

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The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Maybe hire an employee for $30 per hour and re-bill them at $60. Suppose you hire an employee at $60,000/year. After all, if you expect to hire and retain great people, they need time to keep learning, stay in front of the latest technology, and just have fun. Easy money, right? Double is nothing. Isn’t that better?

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