Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Almost all of it is in one giant fixed-cost bucket: salaries. In fact, unless you are adding capacity to a bottleneck in your development process, you probably should not be hiring at all. If you hire a smart, competent person, they will inevitably find ways to be productive and keep busy. Not in my experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Voluntary salary reduction program. Ive also used the voluntary salary reduction tool - its particularly useful as a way to get passionate employees who dont have a lot of personal expenses to buy into the mission of the company at a deep level. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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OCTOBER 23, 2010

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A more rational career path for money-making is one that rewards effort, in the form of promotions, increased security, salary and status. A more rational career path for money-making is one that rewards effort, in the form of promotions, increased security, salary and status. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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