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| bio | website | TheOperationsGuy.com |
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| location | Boston, MA | |
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| visits | member for | 3 years, 4 months |
| seen | Jan 22 at 16:07 | |
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I am a startup veteran and a business operations leader CEOs bring on-board to:
- solve toughest resource problems and hack through emerging business operations impediments
- help build loyal teams of extremely smart and diverse people
- deploy and continuously improve sales, marketing automation, customer support, and other operational system
- nurture culture of accountability and meritocracy
15 years in startups, 9 technology, entertainment, and professional services companies, 12 founders, 7 CEOs.
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Does the concept of “Unlimited Vacation” increase productivity and attract talented employees? Brendan, Goal is to have people take vacations. One of the best companies I have helped build made sure you took vacations. In another company we also discovered that people were not taking enough vacation and were getting burned out, so we chose to strongly advocate for folks to take their time off. In both companies people started taking at least 15 business days of vacations each year and burn out went down. When you do "unlimited", it is really a gimmick that has an accounting trick behind it. You can't accrue "unlimited", so if you quit, you get no vacation pay. |
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Aug 1 |
answered | Does the concept of “Unlimited Vacation” increase productivity and attract talented employees? |
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Jul 24 |
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How do I make an angel investor move faster on a deal? I have had to manage 4 angel rounds with 50+ angels (from 9 angel groups). Angel rounds can take 3-4 months to close even when managed by a lead group. Set your expectations right and follow up, but don't be a pest. Angels are not VCs, they are investing their own money, most are not professional investors, they don't have bunch of associates, so don't expect them to be quick. |
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Jul 23 |
answered | Startup, Friend, Salary, and New Employee |
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Jul 23 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Why are Daily Deal sites "hard to scale'? |
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Jul 22 |
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Why do startups tend to offer fashionable “cool” job title names? Is it sane? edited body |
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Jul 22 |
answered | Approaching Angels by E-Mail - How much information should I expose? |
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Jul 22 |
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Why do startups tend to offer fashionable “cool” job title names? Is it sane? Updated URL |
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Jul 16 |
answered | Consulting while working |
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Jul 13 |
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Compensation for software development Find replacement and pay hourly or per requirement fulfilled. Do it sooner than later. There is no need to engage in such a complicated relationship with possibly very negative consequences. |
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Jul 11 |
answered | How to share equity among early investors, CEO and product developers in a technology startup |
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Jul 4 |
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Tax laws when trading to the US from europe Just get your W-8BEN filled out and attach it to every receipt/invoice you send. If customer asks for W9, you send them W-8BEN. Your bigger issue will be accepting credit cards and other payments. If you are in position to do it - outsource that. Paypal is not a good idea. Companies like Chargify are much better. |
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Jul 4 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jul 3 |
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How do you recruit enough 'top talent' for your company? added 266 characters in body |
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Jun 29 |
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What do you think of this offer? Added an article I wrote on the subject |
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Jun 29 |
answered | Is it legal to work for equity on a J-1 visa? |
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Jun 29 |
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How do you keep yourself and employees from goofing off? deleted 291 characters in body |
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Jun 29 |
awarded | Cleanup |
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How do you keep yourself and employees from goofing off? rolled back to a previous revision |
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Jun 12 |
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Meeting with a Payroll Processing Service - What to Ask I have worked with 5 payroll processing companies so far. Paychex is the only big company that is bearable. ADP is absolute disaster, they screwed up 3 times in 3 months and I had to dump them, because our employees lost their patience. Quickbooks Payroll is somewhat decent, but at least once per year there would be an outage. I am sure there are smaller players out there you could look into, but I usually let someone else let them work out their kinks. Our employees deal with enough beta stuff. |
