Questions regarding all things related to employment of people in the company.
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Employment vs Sole Trading - UK
In the UK, is it possible to be in full time employment and be a sole trader at the same time?
i.e. Work a full time job as an employee. Do contract work as a sole trader on evenings and weekends.
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How do we look for employees these days? [closed]
If I am to set up my own little company, what would be the first step to acquire some employees?
With advent of today's technology, we need to be aware of the "me, me, me" generation and the quick ...
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How should I reward volunteers in a UK Limited Company?
I'm setting up a UK limited company to run a large music ensemble, and people will pay a subscription to take part, but I won't be able to afford to pay most positions (managing concerts, publicity, ...
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Using my kids as models
I've recently started a photography business, not because I can take pictures with my phone and instagram, a legitimate business. How will the tax man feel about me employing and paying my small ...
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Can I train a programmer from internal staff?
I have a person on staff who has been doing a lot of admin type work: support, billing, etc. I am thinking that I will want another programmer (PHP/MYSQL/etc) in the next 6-12 months for some new ...
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Designation of a single employee startup [duplicate]
Well, I belong to a single employee( which is me) business. It is even not registered. So what should be my designation?
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Startup advice on business structure for an international call center
I'm Canadian and living in Canada and I have a professional friend who is American and living in the States. He and I want to start a call center. The operation will be centered around him for sales ...
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What do tech startups look for in potential employees? [closed]
I'm a computer science student at Bristol University in the UK, and I'm looking to work for a startup when I graduate, as I have always had a strong interest in business and feel working for a startup ...
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Workers of a subsidary purely work on products of the parent company
If the parent company wholly owns the subsidiary, could the employees of the subsidiary work on products of the parent company? Are special contracts needed?
Thanks
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How much power should you give your part-time staff?
My company started hiring office assistants a couple years ago. The rationale is pretty straightforward: since good engineers are hard to find, free our engineers of non-engineering tasks so they can ...
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Is it OK to use a shortened first name as a professional?
My name is Amir Khan but instead of Amir I want use Am Khan on my email accounts, online presence, and that's what I want people to call me by and on everything legal I will of course use my full ...
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What is considered “generous-stock-options” for a start-up company in its early days?
We are a young startup, founded by 3 members about a year and a half ago, and recently closed a seed-stage investment round.
We are about to hire our first 3 employees, 2 tech, 1 ...
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Hiring remote employees and getting work done
I want to hire a few developers and support executive for my website. Being an start up, I want to hire them to work remotely to save office expenses but I don't know anything about hiring full time ...
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What is the law covering the intellectual property rights of software developed during internship/employment without signed contract/agreement?
I am a software engineer who "invented", and developed alone an integrated ERP software solution over the past 2 years. I got the idea and coded much of the software as intern at small wholesale ...
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Potential offer as first employee at startup, worth it?
I am a software engineer with about 2 years experience and currently at a big tech company. I have an offer to join a startup that has just received seed funding of 250k and they're about 6 months ...
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Question about terminating contract with employee
Not sure if this the right place to ask but here it goes:
We (myself and 2 founders) found our startup about a year ago. Then we brought on an employee to work part-time and had him sign a contract. ...
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Considerations in setting up a payroll schedule (pay periods & pay days)?
I am setting up payroll for the first time. So far in my research I have discovered that the state of Arizona requires:
I must pay employees within 5 days of the pay period.
I must schedule pay days ...
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Working as early employee but not get paid
I got hired as an early employee (employee #4) and considered as key engineer of the company. As compensation, I got some stock option grant (1%), and well below market salary (about 30% of what I can ...
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Invoicing while full-time employed
I'd need some help in understanding what I need to do, admittedly I am getting into this for the first time.
I am full-time employed in a privately held company in the UK. Recently, I started doing ...
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Do contractors and part-timers count as employees?
When asked in person, or in an survey, the number of employees a startup has, should one count contractors in that number? What about part-timers or interns?
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Startup equity for employee - real stock or option
For an earlier employee (not C level title), is it common to pay via option instead of real stock equity?
Assume both need to suffer from 4 year vesting schedule with 1 year cliff.
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Example of Agreement (template) with Company for doing stuff in spare time
According to related topic:
If I'm working at a company, do they have intellectual property rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?
(and related : Intellectual Property and Side-Projects in ...
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Does the concept of “Unlimited Vacation” increase productivity and attract talented employees?
Does the concept of "Unlimited Vacation" increase productivity and attract talented employees ?
I've read about it here, specifically:
Unlimited vacation fosters productivity and loyalty because ...
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How should early employees be compensated if founders have left and the company has pivoted?
I realize that Joel Spoelsky has written an extensive summary of how equity should be allocated (namely, fairly), but I was wondering how things might differ in slightly different circumstances...
I ...
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Non-compete clause for a early employee
Is it common to ask early employee of a startup to sign a contract containing non-compete clauses?
I am against our employee, but I have a little concern on our competitor as they have money to lure ...
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Do I need to register with the tax department of every state in which I have employees?
In my startup, we have employees (paid hourly) from New Jersey and California. The startup itself is based in New York. We're doing our payroll through Intuit, and the application is telling me I ...
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How to fire people but still maintain a happy/friendly work-space?
People come and go in a startup very often. Even if you try your best to find best talents, there's no guarantee that they are a good fit for your company in a long run.
The present culture of hiring ...
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Employees working for other companies?
Our company is a small, Eastern European outsourcing firm, focusing on PHP, .NET, and mobile development projects). As our company is trying to get off the ground, and since we don't have much money ...
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Equity when joining an established business
Given an offer to join an established company, earning at least a couple of million a year in revenue (under 10 employees) and which is a subsidiary to a multi billion dollar parent company; what is a ...
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The startup I work for is slashing my last pay periods paycheck without notice
This question is not directly related to a creating or running a startup, but I guess this is one of the things that can happen at a startup and I'd love to hear responses from both sides of the ...
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How to expand our workforce from 1 technical 'guru' to a productive team of 6
Like many fellow startups that we know, we've started like with one technical wizard who know a lot of stuff and who knows now where everything is and how it works. The system has undergone a lot of ...
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0.5% equity and 2k/month to be the #1 CDO in a startup
I really need your help.
It 's the first time I've been asked to work for a startup.
The company has already been made​​, founded by 2 partners, and has already received an initial investment, but has ...
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DIY Payroll Processing?
I have tried (and been rejected by) a few online payroll solutions. As I am about to start (very soon) working with real employees, I need to find a way to do payroll more or less manually (though I ...
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What effect does winning an office lottery pool have on the health of small companies
A couple people at my place of work (small-medium company with < 100 employees) are starting up a lottery pool, and it got me wondering about what would happen if they won.
So my question is this, ...
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Choose to pay the employees a little too much or a little too less?
We tend to think that the fair value of a work is the price of it, but it's hard to appreciate. As a web startup, what do you think is the best strategy, keep the pay a little too less to keep the ...
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Is it illegal to sell a software template created at work but duplicated and augmented at home?
I am an employee at a large company and I created a worksheet using my work computer. The worksheet helps me organize my info such as passwords and time-off records. I replicated it and then ...
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Hiring first person employee vs contractor
I have bootstrapped a startup in NY and am ready to hire a person. Should I hire this person as a contractor or as an employee. I realize that there are many laws and logistics around hiring an ...
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Hiring someone as an employee AND contractor
If an employee wanted to clean our buildings above their normal responsibilities, could we hire them as an independent contractor for the cleaning work in addition to them being an employee?
Is there ...
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How do I motivate someone who values his time significantly more than money to come to work on time?
I'm looking for a strategy to negotiate punctuality with an employee who is quite skilled. However, I fear that docking his pay may not have an impact because he values his own time more highly than ...
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Looking to hire designer for a few days. What do I need to know?
I'm probably going to hire a freelance web designer for a few day to complete a project. The designer will probably be freelance so I will be paying a fixed amount on completion. Are there any legal ...
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Advice for early-stage hiring?
I am the CEO of a rapidly growing startup and our growth has begun to outpace our resources as a 3 person organization. So we have begun looking around for people to hire, both as programmers, as ...
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I can't seem to find this answer anywhere regarding LLC
I live in CT but I have office space in NH, where would I register for an LLC? I don't plan on moving there and have employees in NH, so what should I do?
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Should I hire relatives in my startup?
My sister and I started a small company. I don't mind working with her. So far, we've been doing well and have managed to keep our professional issues separate from our family life. The problem is my ...
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How to handle a leaving employee's shares
I have a question about what are the best exit options for employees that own shares in a company and want to leave after some time.
For example, let's say at the start of a company the first ...
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Do websites with pictures of people on the first page make the company look more “human”
Do websites with pictures of people on the first page make the company look more "human", therefore contributing to the success of the product or service the web site tries to promote?
Short story:
I ...
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Reasons to get local admin assistant rather than Virtual Assistant?
Under what circumstances might it make sense to employ a local admin assistant rather than a remote Virtual Assistant?
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Evaluating a startup
My question is, what is the best way to evaluate a software startup as a perspective employee from the point of view of viability i.e. economic viability.
I am more interested in hints related to ...
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Where to post job for early stage startup
We are bootstrapping and offering equity. We're seeking a front end developer.
We posted on startuply.com but are looking for other places. We used one location on craigslist. Anywhere else we should ...
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If I can find someone who will work for an employee's salary rate as a contractor, should I hire them?
I am 1 year into my own Startup Software business and all is going well. We have enough money to hire someone and after pushing 90-130 hours a week for the last 4 months, I think it's a sensible ...
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What's a good ratio between founder equity and early employee equity?
I'm looking into the equity for the 2nd employee of an early-stage startup. I've seen lots of rules of thumbs out there (some people say 1%) but it's hard to apply because some rules of thumb refer ...
