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Startup Founders Should Focus on Managing Expectations Before Managing KPIs

YoungUpstarts

Retention of Staff. Compounded with recent events – start-ups top priority should be staff retention, not sales. Don’t cut costs just at the bottom level – reduce everyone’s salary by an equal percentage. Retention of Clients. Founders should focus on stability.

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Optimizing Your Agency For Profitability

Duct Tape Marketing

So all the salaries and payroll that's allocated to the delivery function in your business, and then what we like to call, share delivery expenses, which would be some of the software or tools that you're paying for that aren't necessarily for one specific client, but you need to do the work. You low value at the bottom.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. She is committed to improving representation in Austin’s technology landscape.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

It’s like arguing against vertical software. Otherwise, for those yet-another-facebook-type social web apps, just hire competent programmers and give them salary and perks that normal professionals expect, and not hope that their compulsion covers for your managerial incompetence and angel investor micromanaging idiocy.

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