Monday, March 10, 2008

I love Mark Cuban

Very interesting conversation about Start up rules. Start with Jason Calcanis and bloggers communicated their feelings. This piece is from Mark Cuban. Thanks Fred Wilson for the redirection.

A Couple of My Rules for Startups - Blog Maverick
12. Make the job fun for employees. Keep a pulse on the stress levels and accomplishments of your people and reward them. My first company, MicroSolutions, when we had a record sales month, or someone did something special, I would walk around handing out 100 dollar bills to salespeople. At Broadcast.com and MicroSolutions, we had a company shot. Kamikaze. We would take people to a bar every now and then and buy one or 10 for everyone. At MicroSolutions, more often than not we had vendors cover the tab. Vendors always love a good party :0