Posts with keyword: employees

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Starting a High Tech Business: Move As a Pack

Tue Dec 7 09:54:00 2010

I'm the founder and CTO of Kynetx. This seriesof articles relates my discoveries and feelings about starting a high-tech business. This is the twenty-eighth installment. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better way---if so, please let me know! Yesterday we had a short service degradation at Kynetx caused by a server that kernel paniced. As the incident was in play, I received periodic reports from Wade Billings and Dan McGarry about what steps were being taken to remediate the problem and address customer notification and concerns. Afterwards, I tweeted: The nice thing about working
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Starting a High-Tech Business: Hiring Your First Engineer

Mon Sep 27 14:21:00 2010

I'm starting a new business called Kynetx. As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the twenty-sixth installment. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better way---if so, please let me know! Allan Carroll asked me a question on LinkedIn that I thought I would answer more publicly: What's most important in hiring the first engineer at a startup and how do you find that person? On one hand, I'm probably not the right guy to answer this question because
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Starting a High Tech Business: The Dark Side of Using a PEO

Wed May 26 14:41:00 2010

I'm starting a new business called Kynetx. As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the twenty-third installment. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better way---if so, please let me know! At Kynetx we use a professional employee organization (PEO) to reduce the overhead we have with managing all the details surrounding having employees. The way it works is that your employees officially work for the PEO and you "lease" them back. This works very well
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Starting a High Tech Business: Only the Employees Will Care

Mon Jul 20 11:36:00 2009

I'm starting a new business called Kynetx. As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the twentieth installment. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better way--if so, please let me know! Businesses have all sorts of constiuencies: shareholders, customers, employees, and so on. And for one reason or another you might argue which is most important. When you're on a board of directors, for example, you work for the shareholders and, except where required by law, put their needs
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