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The Santa Solution To Finding And Keeping Good Employees

YoungUpstarts

Santa has his elves and business leaders have their employees; so let’s what Santa has to teach the entrepreneur about working with a staff: Hire only the best. Fairly compensated employees give their best, whether at the North Pole or in Cleveland, Ohio. Image credit: Wikipedia ].

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3rd Annual Women in Tech Summit Examines Strength, Fundraising & Diversity

Austin Startup

Hold everyone accountable (including yourself) Stacey Cleveland , Equity Strategist for Employee Engagement at Google, left us with some wise words: “We don’t have all the answers, we may ask you to google it.” Especially as a leader, you must see yourself as a resource and be open to learning from your employees.

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Lending to Small Business Picks up

Up and Running

A 47 percent increase in the number of its employees. While these forms of borrowing may cost more than traditional business loans or home equity loans, they do give businesses an option to get around the stringent requirements that may have shut them out from bank loans.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Here’s how the pitch sounds from the engineer’s perspective: ‘For ten whole percent of equity, you will slave away to build a prototype out of my shitty idea, not have any say in the decision-making process…and oh yeah, you could be fired at any point.’ Date for a bit, then split the equity. Amazing post!

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Stanley intends to use the 200 employees of AeroScout to establish an R&D center in Israel built around the existing AeroScout framework. Britain’s Apax Partners in cooperation with Baltimore, Maryland’s JMI Equity has purchased the US-Israeli software company Paradigm for $1 billion. PRIMUS CAPITAL ACQUIRES AOD. billion.

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