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Buy second monitors for everyone, they will save at least 30 minutes a day, which is 100 hours a year... which is at least $2,000 a year.... which is $6,000 over three years. A second monitor cost $300-500 depending on which one you get. That means you're getting 10-20x return on your investment... and you've got a happy team member.
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Buy cheap tables and expensive chairs
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The chair is the only thing that matters... invest in it.
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Don't buy a phone system. No one will use it. No one at Mahalo has a desk phone except the admin folks. Everyone else is on IRC, chat, and their cell phone.
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Outsource accounting and HR---such a no brainer.
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Don't buy everyone Microsoft Office--it's too much money. Put Office on three or four common computers and use Google Docs.
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Use Google hosted email. $50 or free per user.... how can you beat that?!?! Why screw with an exchange server!?!?
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- Fire people who
are not workaholics.don't love their work
- Fire people who
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Get an expensive, automatic espresso machine at the office
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Don't waste money on recruiters. Get inside of linkedin and Facebook and start looking for people--it works better anyway.
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Outsource to middle America: There are tons of brilliant people living between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York who don't live in a $4,000 one bedroom apartment and pay $8 to dry clean a shirt--hire them!
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How to save money running a startup
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whip_lashI've got a bunch of tips on how to do this for business. Among them:
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Scott CenturinoControversial, but philosophically "correct", approach to managing a startup.
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Chad WoodfordThe HowTo team at Mahalo has been an amazing surprise effort. We didn't plan on making howto articles, but when we built various how to search pages we realized that many howto articles were, well, lacking.
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Simon Bricoloconseils pour économiser des sous en entreprise (startup style)
Article Tips Office Freelance Furniture Efficiency Inspiration Startup
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Scott BeamerThis article incited a riot
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Brice Gaillard[ UPDATE: This post caused some big debate over at TechCrunch. I respond here with the blog post titled 'can you work at a startup
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Heidi Claunch[ UPDATE: This post caused some big debate over at TechCrunch. I respond here with the blog post titled 'can you work at a startup
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Matt MichielsenLots of good advice on how to manage costs for a business
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Łukasz Piestrzeniewicz1. Buy Macintosh computers, save money on an IT department
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Douglas KarrJason writes a great post on how to save money with your startup. Some outstanding tips in there!
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FruFru FourOneGrubEd is a script for linux, using the bash shell, which allows you to modify the Grub settings very easily.
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