Finding and retaining talent — true talent — is damn hard in a startup. Some bosses, whether consciously or subconsciously, want sycophantic workers. They would never tell you that, even with a few drinks in them at a bar, but their private, even… Read More »
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Editor’s Note: Our friend Trevor Stafford, Editor of the Canadian entrepreneurs’ network, Red Canary, recently authored this fun bit of satire to demonstrate why so many startup ‘new hire’ interviews are unsuccessful — often it’s because self-obsessed founders treat such meetings… Read More »
I read a nice story in Crain’s Small Business today about Scott and Mitch Silver, and their marketing firm Printable Promotions, in Chicago. The piece outlines why the Silver brothers abandoned managing “activities” through their org chart hierarchy, in favor of a flat,… Read More »
Google has paid notoriously low salaries, in exchange for stock options, to its rank and file long since before the stock was north of $600 a share. Well, today’s Question of the Day is about such employee compensation, from a would-be founder named Alex. Alex would… Read More »
