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I’ve been getting into outsourcing and hiring employees since December of last year. Hired my first person as a programmer a week before Xmas. I was participating in stackman’s thread and got some good info from him and John Jonas. http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread.php?12744-Follow-me-as-i-hire-my-1st-outsourced-employee! Since, then I’ve added a couple more people – a writer, SEO person. It’s […]

So I moved countries, picked up an SEO job and after 1 year of working there they outsourced my job to the Philippines. Gutted, it messed up everything. My visa application, my income.. everything. I panicked and starting looking for another job straight away only to be turned down for even supermarket work. Confidence gone. […]

I’m struggling to find enough idle tasks to give my outsourced employees when things are all ticking a long fine. I was just wonder what tasks you guys give your employees when they have downtime?

Yesterday I met up with my next door neighbour who runs a start up called LiveOnDemand. He mentioned he managed to bring a guy called Ricardo Semler to speak in Amsterdam. I embarrassingly didn’t know who he was… Ricardo is most famous for running his companies in a democratic way. He has an arrangement which […]

Nov & Dec i’ve decided to change a LOT of stuff i do. I’m re-organizing my banking, taxes, hiring a new book keeper, paying more to completely rid myself of any tax related work, fixing my desk lol, etc… It’s a BIG list, and I’m 1/4 done. The goal is when i’m completely done i’ll […]

.. not a mail order bride, but a virtual assistant. :p I interviewed a bunch of them, decided to hire two for a trial. One flaked on me this morning the other showed up. So far so good! I am not really self motivated so hiring someone who relays on his monthly pay check from […]

Just came across this doing some research into node.js. Its a simple bookmarklet you drop in your bookmark bar and click whenever you want to comment on a webpage. You can then draw, write, highlight and underline. Then publish to get a URL which you can send to your team. They can then easily respond […]