2
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4answers
320 views

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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2answers
464 views

Compensation for early startup employee - what is the right balance?

If my company is profitable and able to pay early startup employee at the market salary (compare to MSFT, Google, Apple etc) , should I still need to pay for significant amount of option to them? ...
0
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1answer
92 views

Employee Payment - From an Investor's Prospective

In the development stage of launching a start up. I am initially outsourcing the development as I am not located in a place where there is an abundance of programmers. The dev timeline is 6 weeks. ...
2
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2answers
522 views

Paying Friend/Programmer/Developer to code Startup Website. Also give Percentage? How to keep Accountable?

I have an income and a website idea. I know nothing about programming. I have a friend who is a programmer, comp-sci major, and so to get my idea created into a website I am paying them an hourly wage ...
2
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1answer
321 views

C Corporation single shareholder / highly-compensated employee limitations?

If I'm a single shareholder/owner and employee of a C Corporation, am I limited from taking any deductions due to being a highly-compensated employee (due to share ownership)?
3
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2answers
286 views

Equity for strategic hires?

We're a small (but growing) consulting firm with software to be developed as a side stream (yes, I know this is an original story :)). 3 partners, equal equity. We've worked with a few people in the ...
4
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1answer
446 views

How do I pay myself from a UK-based startup?

I've been self-employed as a sole trader for over a year, but now I want to form a private limited company and trade via that (I'm in IT, and some organisations here won't contract an individual ...