In the beginning stages of your business, you can't always offer competitive salaries. So as you're trying to get off the ground, you have to find other ways to structure your business so that early-stage employees have a different reason to be excited about their jobs.
- Build in Learning Opportunities
- Offer Everything but Salary
- Create an Exceptional Community
- Foster a Great Atmosphere
- Create a Vision Program
- Be Present
- Be Open and Honest
- Give Them Interesting Work, and Credit Them for Successes
- Offer Stock Options
- Promote a Remote Workplace
- Have Flexible Job Descriptions
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