Employees Questions

I am (co-)starting a company with the bought assets of my previous (software) company, dormant for over a year. The IT guy from the previous company is coming on board to help revive the server...

IT Employees

asked Feb 1 '11 at 09:02

Aaron Smothers
56 points

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...

Hiring Equity Employees Salary

asked Jan 16 '11 at 02:09

Sean
1,149 points

I have a concept for an online multiplayer game which would require the user to download a lobby interface to access the online content. I am looking for advice for where to look for people who...

Employees Intellectual Property

asked Jan 21 '11 at 08:59

User6730
6 points

In my job hunt, it's incredibly common for me to run into startups that have say 3 people and then have the CTO tell me "We just closed a round of funding, so we're looking to hire 3 or 4 more...

Hiring Venture Capital Employees

asked Jan 23 '11 at 18:57

Jason
139 points

In my earlier venture attempts, the scenario was something like 3 guys, each of whom would get 33.3%. I found out soon that this was silly because as soon as one of us lost interest, he could do...

Co-Founder Employees Investment Compensation

asked Jan 8 '11 at 03:38

John Berryman
388 points

My start-up is finally coming together; however, I am in dire need of a solid sales team to go out into the market and attract customers. I want to pay them per store they sign-up. Can anyone refer...

Sales Employees

asked Jan 12 '11 at 18:20

User6528
149 points

I have recently formed an e-learning company. Things are doing fine however I feel I need to learn how to motivate others in my company and surroundings. When I try to do that people feel I am...

Employees

asked Dec 29 '10 at 04:00

Raja
16 points

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...

Employees Human Resources

asked Dec 5 '10 at 07:59

Jpartogi
1,342 points

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...

Incentives Employees Human Resources Stock Options

asked Dec 11 '10 at 04:28

Polemarch
301 points

I am pretty bad with gifts and in the past years I was awarding monetary bonuses to folks who work with us. I am not particularly keen on the idea of bonuses mostly due to the fact that we can't...

Management Employees Gifts

asked Nov 26 '10 at 06:29

Alex
262 points

We're a startup that is made up of 4 students. 3 graduated and 1 in his final year. One has taken a job for 4 days a week and is willing to work on our projects the other 3 days. So we have 2...

Employees

asked Nov 8 '10 at 11:01

Shawn Mclean
220 points

Here's the scenario: there's a startup with two founders (and a couple of other participants) in it working part-time while keeping their full-time, primary jobs. They are building a...

Employees Investors

asked Nov 12 '10 at 05:34

Alphadogg
1,383 points

I am looking for examples of ex-Googlers or Ex-Microsofters ( or other big companies leavers) who, after leaving the established company, went on to build their own, became hugely successful in...

Employees

asked Nov 2 '10 at 16:10

Graviton
871 points

My startup has employees who are in different places at different times. What is the best way to manage and to centralise files, emails, communications, ...? Would the web be the best place to start?

Project Management Employees Communication

asked Oct 6 '10 at 11:51

Jfw
150 points

I run a small consulting company, four people. Myself and another employee were out of the office on business today, the third was on a requested and agreed upon vacation. The fourth did not show...

Employees

asked Sep 10 '10 at 12:04

Xkenneth
140 points

I am in the process of moving my home website business into commercial office space because I need to hire an employee (or two) to help with all of the work. I need to hire a writer - but the...

Hiring Employees

asked Jul 19 '10 at 23:02

Steampunk
166 points

Also, Initially we will be starting as a business/entrepreneurship school. I've toyed with two ideas for teachers. Experience entrepreneurs or somewhat experienced generalists that have great and...

Employees Education

asked Jul 7 '10 at 16:23

Ryan Chatterton
921 points

I am looking for "rules of thumb", or estimates for the numbers of staff required for a startup through growth. For example how many developers per manager, how many support staff per customer,...

Business Model Employees

asked May 27 '10 at 00:33

Ian Wilson
88 points

In many startups there are some #1 or #2 employees who helped the whole business all the way. I've got couple guys like that, I'd love to give them more than the salary (even though our salaries...

Equity Employees Team

asked Mar 28 '10 at 00:28

The Dictator
2,305 points

I am about to launch a website, which I got created through a freelancer. However, I am not very pleased with freelancer's performance and plan to hire someone full-time to make required iterations...

Hiring Development Employees Design

asked Apr 2 '10 at 03:32

Joydeep
185 points