mcmoose75

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by mcmoose75 9y ago
I run the US office of a German startup. I'd add the below: 1) Issuing employee equity across countries is difficult: There are good US solutions to prevent employee equity/ option holders from needing to pay taxes before liquidit
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by mcmoose75 9y ago
That's more specifically a Southern Californian thing- people moving from Northern California to SoCal find it strange.
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by mcmoose75 9y ago
You could make the argument that in (growing) startups, this is closer to the way things are- engineers create value over longer time periods (and efforts are often harder to tie directly to economic value creation). Equity-based comp is a
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by mcmoose75 9y ago
I was at SPAR 3D in Houston a couple weeks ago (trade show for laser scanning/ surveying industry), and there was some rumor-mill type chatter about what the hell was going on with Velodyne. Apparently some folks have heard that they&#
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by mcmoose75 10y ago
NavVis | Junior Account Executive | New York City | http://navvis.com/ NavVis is a Munich-based indoor mapping and navigation startup that has recently expanded to the US and opened a New York City office. As the third sale
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by mcmoose75 10y ago
A good deal of this is the entire system of control Uber has (or really, hasn't) implemented here. We already know that managers at Uber use reviews to punish those on their team that are at all critical of them (especially for ethic i
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by mcmoose75 10y ago
NavVis | Junior Account Executive | New York City | http://navvis.com/ NavVis is a Munich-based indoor mapping and navigation startup that has recently expanded to the US and opened a New York City office. As the third sale
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by mcmoose75 10y ago
It kinda goes both ways- sure, the UK can make a power play here, but Uber can make an example to drivers in other countries as well. "You want to make a case that you're employees? Joke's on you- now you have nothing. Peace.
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by mcmoose75 10y ago
It's also not very good- both the desktop and iOS clients (that I use) are horribly slow to load, clunky, and require multiple (laggy) clicks just to get to a notification of a message. I'd much rather pay for something else, on-p
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by mcmoose75 10y ago
Absolutely agree- however, in many cases these types of companies can still be decent businesses. Being able to work with and adjust "moderately complex" Excel sheets requires a certain level of training and skill- often these sta
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by mcmoose75 10y ago
You may be confusing Bain & Company (the consulting firm, a competitor to McKinsey) and Bain Capital. Bain Capital was started by some former Bain consultants, and is obviously similarly named, but is a totally independent organization.
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by mcmoose75 11y ago
There are in more well-defined industries (e.g, media) and salespeople understand and value them- they would definitely consider this important to their overall package. There's more of an issue when the industry isn't well define