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The Santa Solution To Finding And Keeping Good Employees

YoungUpstarts

It’s somewhat similar to the way we regard Santa and his elves; the big guy gets the name recognition, but we all know that it’s the anonymous elves toiling away in the background that help make every Christmas a smashing success for Mr. Claus. Fairly compensated employees give their best, whether at the North Pole or in Cleveland, Ohio.

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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.

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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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