How to save money running a startup, and your workers, into the ground
| March 8, 2008 |  View for printing |
Mahalo Inc. chief executive blabbermouth Jason Calacanis has published a list of "really good tips" for how startups can save money. Among the really good ones is to fire anyone who isn't a workaholic. "Come on folks, this is startup life, it's not a game," he writes. "Go work at the post office or stabucks (sic) if you want balance in your life. For realz."
Because postal workers are notoriously balanced. But let's set aside the almost comical level of condescension toward people stuck in, like, non-startup life, which of course is a game (not unlike Jarts, as it turns out). I also recognize that Calacanis, from his earliest days hawking dot-com sundaes in his magazine about New York's Silicon Alley, has long indulged in such shtick, the kind of faux bravado dressed up as straight talk that's meant to convey a maverick, devil-may-care indifference to convention. In fact, let's give Calacanis the benefit of the doubt and assume that such gems are meant to be taken seriously, rather than as a rather frantic effort to get attention.
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