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8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary.

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How to Hire a Remote Software Development Team

ReadWriteStart

Simply put, it’s a group of highly skilled software developers , designers, and other tech professionals who work together on projects from different locations, often spread across the globe. You could post on job boards, social media, and your company’s website. You might probably know what remote work means.

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8 Red Flags To Evaluate Before Pledging To A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary.

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

These shortcuts add up and become what is called technical debt. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. Equally important their VP of Marketing had brilliantly executed a stream of social media campaigns (Facebook likes and partnerships, email campaigns, etc.)

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. Entrepreneurs.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. A growing number of skeptics are openly talking of a ‘high tech bubble’. They are not alone. Global Demand.

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5 Cost-Cutting Strategies That May Cause You to Spend More

Up and Running

When paying employees becomes too expensive, many companies either lay people off or keep their workers but reduce salaries. First, reducing salaries or offering inadequate compensation turns away talented applicants and discourages your current staff. Instead of reducing salaries, think about changing your payment structure.

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