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A step-by-step guide to HR outsourcing

The Startup Magazine

Payroll management entails several steps, including: Calculating allowances (such as rent and travel expenses) and salary components (variable and net pay). Having an in-house payroll team or sophisticated HR software specifically specialized for payroll processing can be rather expensive. Payout processing and accounting.

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What Makes Employees Productive in a New Startup?

ReadWriteStart

After launching a new startup, you’ll be interested in growing the business as quickly as possible, thus generating more revenue, securing more stability, and improving your reputation as well. You can devise a streamlined, efficient workflow from scratch – but there’s no guarantee the “practice” is going to match the “theory.”

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? The CEO should dial through as many of the largest existing customers to get a firsthand understanding of the magnitude of any revenue shortfall.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I million in revenue a year. .

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

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Could You – Should You – Fund Your Startup With Credit Cards?

ReadWriteStart

So far, Herman has put about $60,000 on his credit cards, using them mostly to finance software development. To ensure he didn’t get in over his head, Herman says, “I only put monies on the credit cards for which I know I have corresponding payments due from customers.

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Three Counterintuitive Ways To Build A Business That Lasts

YoungUpstarts

by Gareth Wilson, Head of Marketing at Fog Creek Software. When you consider that 88% of people leave their jobs for a position with a matching or lower salary you come to understand that the reasons for changing companies is rarely financial. Invest more in what counts. Hire great people to do boring work.