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How to Avoid Common Payroll Mistakes in Your Small Business

Up and Running

Dissatisfied employees won’t work hard to impress you, leave your start-up in droves and write bad reviews for your company. Incorrectly identifying workers as exempt or non-exempt. These workers are exempt if they perform specific (relatively high-level) job duties, are paid on a salary basis, and earn at least $23,660 per year.

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What does a Head of People do? Learning from Ada’s Chelsea MacDonald

Version One Ventures

And Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo, discussed code quality. Chelsea started her first business when she was 12, and her first non-profit when she was 13. Planned 2020 future salaries projections. Reviewed performance of BDRs and Sales. Did a 45 minute review of our IT infrastructure.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Whereas New York City has very high real estate costs and very high salaries, launching in Chicago and D.C. were more distributed.

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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

Both Sides of the Table

One theme that I always get is, “I’ve gotten an offer from a VC, but they want me to do X, what do you think?&# X is always something non-standard that the entrepreneur knows in his gut isn’t right. I personally ruled out Pakistan due to the perception that our staff would feel less safe there.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Should You Build a Mobile App or a Website for Your Startup?

Up and Running

Some, on the contrary, say that the modern user is already experiencing app fatigue and that people tend to use just three apps at most , so competing for desktop attention still remains easier. You will have to compete for customer’s attention with other businesses. As a new business owner, you may be overwhelmed by the choice.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. And, there are potential tax traps as well, especially when Non Qualified options are traded for services. Even for ISO’s, have you heard of form 83(b)?