DISQUS

Blog comments: Why Deferred Salaries Don’t Work for Startup Founders

  • John Jacobson · 1 year ago
    The point of this article? The reason people take the risk to start a company is the high upside. Downside is no fixed annual salary. Enough said.
  • David Rusenko · 1 year ago
    There can be a happy medium -- back pay a couple months worth of salary for the founders, so that they can add to a bit of a personal financial cushion in a volatile situation.
  • Miami SEO Company · 6 months ago
    The revenue argument is probably even worse. Revenue is hard to come by and most businesses don’t see enough of it to justify paying back salaries on top of current ones and other business expenses. The idea of generating enough revenue to cover accrued/deferred salaries is a fantasy in almost all cases