Salary Related Topics 
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 10, 2012
On top of that, budgets are siloed; the “Salaries” budget is separate from the “Tools” budget. So the “savings” are invisible, even if real.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
No salaries followed by low salaries. The care and feeding of becoming an expert in something. The hard lessons you have to recover from learning. The experience you get just after you need it. The inner doubt suppressed for the morale of the team. The “eat what we kill” mentality.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
where talent nevertheless beats their door down to work there even in cases where they know ahead of time they’ll take a pay-cut (because salaries are set by a formula ).
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
The question is further complicated when the new hire is getting a salary. Typically the salary is less than market with the balance given in the form of equity, but again how do you compute that when the stock is, today, of no value? What about $Y/mo? &# Hard to know, but an important question for a bootstrap startup to answer!
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
APRIL 24, 2012
They’re giving me a salary and an OK stock grant, but I want more stock. The $1000/hour thing is based on 100% risk with no salary, which is not your situation. To get your question answered , email me at asmartbear -at- shortmail -dot- com. Employee-Investor writes: I’ve been invited to join as startup as employee #1.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JUNE 19, 2012
The first and biggest error is thinking you can ignore your own salary. When your business throws off $1500/mo (without salaries), that’s not the case. years before I could even hire one employee, and even then it was 1/4 of the salary he deserved (and later ended up making). — but not for years.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
DECEMBER 21, 2009
If you honestly can't imagine that there's anything a full-time person could do that would generate enough revenue to cover their salary, that's not a bad thing. But often this churns up one or two very-part-time tasks which really ought to be done but aren't.
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