Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. The first thing I do is suggest they explore if they really need to hire a full-time CTO for their startup and if so, what kind of CTO they need.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

Sure, they may hand out a few training booklets and introduce new hires to the team, but successful onboarding goes much deeper than that. When organizations fail to implement such a strategy, new hires slip through the cracks. These companies also see a 69% boost in new hire retention. Align all the Departments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

Today I want to write briefly about a strategy we have used to very good effect when hiring new workers: outsource. I am not talking about outsourcing work to other companies, but rather finding, hiring, and developing a network of freelance vendors or contractors. This does not just apply in the world of creative services.

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Transformify

MAY 15, 2023

And the only way to do that is by being creative and strategic with your approach to hiring software developers. This blog will provide you with some tips to identify and attract the best software developer talents. Ways To Attract The Best Software Development Talent Hiring the best talent always starts with attracting them.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The ‘’Gig Economy’’ series sheds light on the future of work and the pros and cons of hiring freelancers and gig workers. Why do you hire gig workers and freelancers? Since I do all the hiring in my own department, I don’t have the luxury of outsourcing interviews or reading cover letters to anyone else.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

According to Toni Schneider, a Partner at True Ventures, and a Team-Lead at Automattic, boundaryless teams confer a real advantage; “You can hire great people wherever you find them: Once your company is untethered from one physical location, your pool of available job applicants becomes the entire world. Not likely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

I was really bad at negotiating my salary. Except my first interview out of college, I have read up on salary negotiation every single time. I also skipped the big career blogs and read up on the psychology of negotiation. This guide should help you successfully persuade a potential employer into offering a higher salary.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Don’t hire security guards or bring boxes into the office before breaking the news. Other thoughts that came up were: (a) offering a long post-termination exercise period for vested options, (b) accelerating some vesting, (c) creating a Salary Bridge program, which we did once at Return Path. Q: Have you ever considered salary cuts?

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Post 1 of 4 in the series of Scaling CPO’s) In most startups, the HR function starts out as tactical, because you have to get people hired and paid, and while you might have a founder or early-stage employee who can do these things, often these tasks are frequently outsourced to a PEO. But those things won’t help you scale.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

If it were that easy, SEO experts wouldn’t spend years of learning and practice just to gain a few tips that they would have learnt by reading a few blogs on the internet. . Hiring an in-house SEO expert would be expensive for your business. You will need to pay high salaries and incur the cost of buying all relevant SEO tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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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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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The very last email I got from him told me the following: Thank you for your time Tony, I understand everyone wants a huge salary, no risk and a cut of the profits. You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We hear all the time about the importance of hiring the right people and the expanding universe of advice can be overwhelming; hire slow and fire fast, only hire the “right&# candidate; ask probing questions; check all references; blah blah blah. So to start, here’s why hiring sucks: 1.

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Board Effect

MAY 26, 2022

With millions looking for jobs, the job climate is ripe for nonprofits to hire top talent. . Once you recruit and hire good talent, you’ll want to keep them and create opportunities for them to advance within the organization. Offer competitive salaries. The data tells you what things are important to workers.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 23, 2012

Seth Levine of the Foundry Group has a blog post up today on CEO and founder salaries. I’ve been saying for years now that founder salaries should start at these sorts of levels and then rise to what would be market for the skillset in a larger company environment as the company gets to scale and/or profitability.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Examples: large bidders tripled the cost per click, Google’s SEO algorithm changed, the event organizers changed the rules or stopped doing the event, the link-sharing site became irrelevant, the hot blog lost its traffic, the magazine running the ads finally failed. The product was built on a platform , and the platform changed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With the unlimited access to “how-to” videos and detailed instructions on the Internet, you shouldn’t need to hire experts for most things. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors. Learn to be a generalist rather than a specialist.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hire a CEO to Go Public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies. The role of the independent member was typically to tell the founding CEO that the VCs were hiring a new CEO.). People had to actually pay you for your product.

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Over-Hiring Early On. Hiring employees and managers is important for a business. However, hiring a full staff for your startup will kill it almost instantaneously. Without a steady income, you can’t pay the staff their salaries. Nate is also the editor-in-chief at a business oriented blog Bizzmarkblog.com.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. It is typical for employees to vest their options over four years with a one year cliff, which means a new hire must stay on the company for at least one year to see any shares. How do you feel about that number?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Building a software product, the massive part of your budget is the developers’ salary. Keep in mind that some of the development tools like WordPress themes and Magento framework aren’t free. What about other factors that have an impact on your budget? Junior engineers cannot deliver a high-quality product.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 25, 2011

Maybe not — after all the stated goal of WPEngine is to serve the “middle market&# — the folks who have outgrown free blogs, don’t like maintaining their own servers, but aren’t so large that they have extreme hosting demands. Should we take on those clients? That’s our profitable niche. So we think.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

A good salary. Thousands of students hire professional writers daily. Michelle Brooks is the blog editor at EssayPro. It helps to understand the requirements of the order, clarify the details, and discuss drafts. Don’t worry. This correspondence won’t take much time. Essay writing business is lucrative. You may be rejected.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.”

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Outsourced workers aim to perform their tasks well even during less desirable shifts, perhaps because they want to be hired for more projects in the future. Rather than allocating funds for the fixed cost of hiring full-time employees, you get to allot your budget on further developing your business and brand.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

You can follow him at @hertling or on his blog, williamhertling.com. In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. My blog posts, in turn, get repurposed into books.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 16, 2023

It has been a while since I posted to the K9 Ventures blog. Software Engineers also tend to command a much higher salary. And of course, HiHello is hiring amazing high-quality engineers. I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company.

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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. My friend Peter Thiel once warned a young entrepreneur: “Never ever hire an MBA; they will ruin your company.” In any case, the episode did not make me want to hire more MBAs.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. That being said the following is available to the right candidate: • 3-5% equity in the company (based on experience). • $50,000/year salary once we obtain funding (target: January, 2010). Drowning American. Musings on Life and the American Dream. Skip to primary content. Post navigation.

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Transformify

JANUARY 21, 2020

On the contrary, salaried employees may lose their jobs on short notice due to business transformation, cost-cutting or adverse market conditions having a negative impact on the company they work for. The Free plan allows up to 3 job listings, the clients can see the applicants but can’t communicate with or them or hire them.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Nathan Hursts Blog Thoughts on Software, Technology, and Startups « Back to blog Im on the technical side of entrepreneurship in NYC. Compensation is probably between $0 and a ramen salary. 6a] Salary upon funding -0%: No extra equity for getting a salary upon funding. I am now pulling in 8 figures.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. They encourage you to hire senior people on your team who have gold-plated resumes. If you pick the wrong spouse at least you can get divorced.

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