Employees Questions

I'm pretty new to twitter ( http://twitter.com/roadbud ). I'm hoping to build customer relationships, provide customer service, engage people with blog, and lead prospects towards our product...

Marketing Employees Twitter

asked Feb 25 '10 at 00:25

Mike Schoeffler
100 points

I have a similar question to this one regarding putting your "startup" on your resume. I have a full time job and started a small company on the side. My startup isn't a product company - I've been...

Hiring Employees

asked Mar 5 '10 at 07:17

George Jenson
108 points

I wonder - is it possible to sign a contract with a freelancer for a regular contract job securely? I mean how can I justify that all the work he has done will be given to my company and nobody...

Legal Employees

asked Feb 12 '10 at 05:34

Kirill Blazhko
393 points

Are there any legal pitfalls I should know about when creating a service where I pay users to provide a service to customers? The model I'm thinking about is like Amazon Turk for a certain...

Contract Legal Employees

asked Jan 10 '10 at 06:37

User2212
11 points

My bootstrapped startup (Textaurant ) needs some help with market research. Since we're so close to two of my alma maters (undergrad is ~1 mile, grad is ~5 miles), I figured I would reach out to...

Hiring Interns Employees

asked Jan 13 '10 at 03:10

Josh Sam Bob
1,578 points

Does anyone offer a Flexible Spending Account for dependent care to their employees as a benefit? If so, whom do you use as an administrator and what are the costs of administration?

Employees Benefits

asked Jan 19 '10 at 17:40

Oleg Barshay
2,091 points

I've been running my business for 3 years now. It's grown substantially and doing quite well but I seem to be losing the passion of running the business. I'm interested in doing newer things but...

Focus Entrepreneurs Employees Business

asked Dec 30 '09 at 22:36

Sam
43 points

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:...

Employees Benefits Human Resources

asked Dec 13 '09 at 08:21

Sachin Agarwal
63 points

We're getting ready to formalize our processes around employee reviews and I wondered if anyone had some great advice and/or links to articles/resources that are valuable on the subject. I've never...

Culture Employees

asked Nov 25 '09 at 04:30

Randfish
1,001 points

So here's the situation: I was discovered by a startup company through some of my work. I was interviewed by one of the cofounders, and they were interested in putting me on their team...

Employees

asked Dec 4 '09 at 20:39

Ching B
23 points

Does the company you're currently work for owns the IP rights if you are creating a product after work hours? Is there anything that can defend me if the company at one point claims that they own...

Employees Intellectual Property

asked Dec 4 '09 at 21:00

Jpartogi
1,342 points

This question is related to another one, "Ideal office space layout - open or offices?", but I think it's worth a question of its own. There are many voices advocating that developers have to be...

Planning Employees Office

asked Nov 7 '09 at 20:14

Artur Soler
206 points

The person I have in mind is an early-stage marketing & sales person, someone who exclusively specializes in taking early-stage startups from a beta customer or two to some point of critical...

Marketing Employees

asked Nov 18 '09 at 23:24

Cortez
26 points

Here is the compensation equation, as I see it: Equity - how much ownership one has, and when (roughly) it will be worth something Wage - how much salary one recieves Career - how the position...

Employees Founders Compensation

asked Nov 18 '09 at 23:45

Cortez
26 points

I'm sure many of you have been in this situation before, where you want to quit your day job to focus more on the startup you have built. Currently I'm having a hard way to tell my employer that I...

Employees Ethics

asked Oct 26 '09 at 18:54

Jpartogi
1,342 points

As a solo-preneur one really needs outside support. Consultants, freelancers, etc. Challenge is finding them, qualifying their experience, and tracking their work; as efficiently as possible as you...

Contract Employees

asked Oct 28 '09 at 09:31

Paul O'brien
521 points

I saw this response in other thread that in order for you to get more time to build your startup, you should go home right ontime (5 o'clok sharp) everyday if you're still working for someone else....

Employees Ethics

asked Oct 28 '09 at 10:27

Jpartogi
1,342 points

I think the most essential question to ask before recruiting someone to work for your startup is to ask their main motivation to work in a startup. Those of you that have experiences with...

Recruiting Employees

asked Nov 2 '09 at 10:30

Jpartogi
1,342 points

Is it better to make the decision to hire based only on revenue growth? Or if you saved enough money to pay another salary for 4 months, would it be better to grow first and try to increase our...

Hiring Employees

asked Nov 2 '09 at 11:14

Max Cameron
56 points

We work in a small open plan office with around 20 staff. A lot of the work we do involves writing fairly technical documents and it is therefore important to allow people to sit down free from...

Employees

asked Nov 7 '09 at 02:16

Duncanmorris
46 points