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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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Can I hire two CTOs for my Startup?
I would like to prevent being dependant on one CTO, because fast and efficient progress is too important. Is it possible to hire two CTOs at the beginning? Or will it be similar to hiring two senior ...
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Ending contracts with a programmer who is part of an outsourced team
I hired a team of programmers through an outsourcing website to developer a web app.
The project is nearing completion, and I need to end some of contracts but keep the top performers working for a ...
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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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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 does start-up experience hurt your chances of being hired in a non-startup?
There have been a few OnStartups threads about how an employer could look at your start-up experience. Since this board favors people who are either currently involved in a start-up or are ...
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Should I do it all alone or co-operate with others?
I have builded some web startups earlier with medium winnings. I have to say that the whole work was done by myself as I have the ability to do it programmatically. However I think I am not the best ...
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Performance management web app for small businesses [closed]
Is it a good idea to create a service for reviewing and managing performance appraisals targeted for small businesses?
I understand that the service may add more value if I couple it with other HR ...
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Is it illegal for my employer to ask me for details about my personal expenditure?
When discussing my annual salary increase, my employer wanted me to list all my personal expenditures. They feel I should have plenty of money and I must be spending "frivolously" if I don't. ...
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What to offer key people in my startup?
I have recently launched my small online business(sole proprietorship). I have no funding and this is something I been working on for the last two years on the side at night after work.
I am relying ...
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How should the next generation of employees be?
I recently read a news article (in Norwegian) that "the ability to cooperate" was essentially the only requirement for applicants, which was just as relevant 50 years ago as it is today, while ...
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Good resource for getting labor rates for developers around the world?
Looking to bring on some developers and using sites like Vworker.com. While looking for prices to offer I'd like to get an idea of what is a good price and a poor price for developers in different ...
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Tactful removal of partners
In the past, I have worked on many different projects with groups of people ranging in size from 2 to 10. These projects have always flopped due to numerous issues, but one issue that has always been ...
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Running a dating site - Use volunteers for administration - how to keep them motivated?
I'm running a dating site and I have 3 volunteers working on the administration (approving photos, profiles, removing stalkers, etc). The problem I'm having is that they are, as volunteers, very ...
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How do you hire your first people to your startup?
I really wonder how do you hire your first employees if you were working on an internet startup alone. I really wonder if there are experienced people which started their startup alone and expand it. ...
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What employee turnover rate is too low for a high-tech company?
There is a lot of focus on the cost of employee turnover in companies. I am curious to know whether there are any studies on failure-rate of high-tech companies increasing if the turnover rate is too ...
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How much in stock options should we offer new employees?
We're a software startup with annual revenue in the ballpark of half a million. We're completely bootstrapped, and have no current plans to take funding. We currently have 4 employees. We're ...
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As an employer should we care about the employee's welfare?
Do you think as an employer we should care about the employee's welfare? Should we care about our employees' financial difficulties, and raise their salaries [i.e because prices are going up] or lend ...
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How do you manage employee holiday requests?
I'm currently doing some research into how companies manage employee holiday requests for a startup I'm considering.
So, my question is:
What do you use to manage holiday requests, and what systems ...
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Startup Suggestions for a Human Resource professional
I am Human resource professional with 10Yrs of industry experience in placing Technology candidates to software houses. I have an ambition to own a startup, so which segment is suitable for me?
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Do you think a student could help a start up in marketing /lead generation?
I know that to find leads in my business start up you have to blog, create webinars, SEO, PR, social networking and just do good rich content that can be easily found. So with no budget to do the ...
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What are the differences of offering Incentive Stock Options or Non-qualified Stock Options to Employees?
I remember at one point a startup will switch from offering ISO (Incentive Stock Options) to offering Non-qualified Stock Options (NSO) to employees?
Can the startup decide which to offer, and what ...
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What PEO providers are out there other than TriNet? What questions should I ask potential PEO providers? [closed]
Looking at PEO (professional employee organization) providers - just wanted to get a sense for who else is out there other than TriNet. I only know about TriNet from Feld's AskTheVC blog: ...
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understanding ESOPs
We would like to introduce ESOP plan for our employees. However, I do not understand the tax implications of it for employees as well as the company. Any pointers to simple explanations of ESOP plans ...
