Tag: work
A look inside one startup’s work-from-home playbook
Working from home is having a moment amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but some startups are having an easier time of it than others. Collage, an e-commerce site for custom gifts, has been all-remote since its inception; co-founders and co-CEOs Joe Golden and Kevin Borders started the company while Golden lived…
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Dear Sophie: How do I get visas for my team to work from home?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Here’s…
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Mattermost CEO Ian Tien on building a successful remote team
‘It’s really about iterating and putting more and more systems in place as you grow’ Greg Kumparak @grg / 7 hours Mattermost is pretty open about what it is: an open-source, self-hosted alternative to Slack. The team didn’t originally set out to build a messaging tool at all; they wanted…
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How to buy back your startup from a tech giant like WeWork
When SEO and marketing company Conductor sold to WeWork in March 2018, it was a bit of a last-ditch effort. Leading up to the sale, Conductor’s executives and employees owned around 9% of the company, which had about $28 million in revenue. To make its mission a reality, Conductor needed…
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Startup founders are building companies on WhatsApp
Creating new firms and services easily and cheaply opens up the world Lisa Enckell 7 hours Lisa Enckell Contributor Lisa Enckell is a partner at Antler, an early-stage venture capital firm and startup generator. In Asia, where I work as a partner at an early-stage VC, startups are regularly rolling…
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Maintain data security when staff is working from home
The coronavirus pandemic has left governments floundering, businesses unprepared and citizens scrambling for hand sanitizer like it’s worth its weight in gold. The sense of general unpreparedness has a lot of people on edge. Not surprising, since we’re on the edge of a global health emergency and it’s impossible to…
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