How daring Startups make Cultural Moves to create unfair advantage

Cultural Moves by Daring Startups

1. Empower Employee in the Hierarchy
   • Show confidence with giving more powers
   • Trust judgement & calculation rather than double guess decisions
   • Flexibility to choose Tools
   • Give Budget Lines, Share Credit Card and then Trust
2. Flexibility
   • BYOD to Office
   • Choose your working hours
   • Buyout notice period
   • Very Short(1 Week) notice period
   • Intrapreneurship Opportunities
   • Drill down or Drill Up workload based on Career growth Graph
3. Knowledge Leadership
   • Free Patents belong to Public(Tesla)
   • Sponsor open source work development e.g. Opensource Code(Sunmicrosystems-OpenOffice)
   • Creative Commons License on Media Properties
   • Publish cutting edge research for broader good
   • Share internal secret sauce on blogs for free
4. Work Culture
   • Email Transparency (Stripe)
   • Leadership open door policy Walk-in anytime in Office
   • 2 Day Work on your own Idea out of 5 day work week
   • 4 day work week at 80% Salary
   • Monthly Weekend Hackathon(s) to build new features in Product
5. Administration [People Talent Policy]
   • Flat Office Hierarchy - Open desk Culture
   • Paid Paternal/Maternal Leaves
   • 3 months of Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of Service
6. Hiring [Risks Vs Leap of Faith]
   • All-Remote, Remote First Company, Annual Getaway Outings (Gitlab)
   • “3-2-1” hiring Technique (Alpha Junior Top Talent)
   • No Formal Degree
7. Build publicly with each aspect transparent(Buffer)
   1. Open Salary Paygrades
   2. Diversity stats
   3. Product Roadmaps
8. Lifestyle Benefits
   1. Free Lunch / Free Dinner
   2. Get Dog to your office place
   3. Creche in Office Workplace
   4. Get laundary done at office for free
9. Salaries
   • Salary in Crypto
   • Decide your own Hike
   • Open Salary Paygrades