Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Whether it’s planning a New Year’s Eve soiree or buying gifts for family members, employees may experience productivity dips when the holiday season is in full swing. If you can offer employees the opportunity to switch up their work hours to meet their social demands, you’ll ease their psychological burden—which can be heavy at the holidays.

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Employee Product Ratchet Demand 134

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

If your startup is eyeing international expansion early on, your tax compliance and planning needs, both home and abroad, immediately ratchet up. When you’re hiring a new employee out of state, for example, it’s best to check on potential filing issues in that state before bringing him aboard. Plan ahead.

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Ratchet Merger New York Engineer 113

Up and Running

JUNE 2, 2015

She has led large organizations with hundreds of employees through challenging times and major transformations. So many of our Bplans readers are solopreneurs or only have a few employees. When team members experience heartfelt emotion, their creative ability ratchets up a notch. At the outset I wondered the same thing.

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Ratchet Demand Management Software Review 60

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

As Halloween comes to a close and attention turns to Thanksgiving and the winter holidays, you’ll probably notice a perceptible dip in employee productivity. The key is to have realistic expectations while still demanding a high quality of output. If you haven’t in the past, poll your employees to see what they want to do.

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Product Ratchet Employee Demand 99

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

After starting two companies of his own, he now heads the NYCDOE’s Markets initiative, which works on fostering smart demand for innovative solutions to the most urgent problems in New York’s public schools. million kids, and 135,000 employees. Our annual budget is $25 billion.

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Lean Startup Ratchet New York City 162

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Especially in situations where the founders have a large position and are key employees, it is not uncommon for investors to request that they agree to have some portion of their holdings vest on a schedule. Other major term-sheet provisions, in addition to these economic considerations, also focus on reducing investor risk.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. And there are also modern examples of investors beating the founders and employees out the door.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40