Class #4: Creating the Dream Team

Monday, February 16

Overhead and the Division of Labor: Creating the Dream Team
Readings: Selected excerpts from the IPO filings of Apple Computer and Microsoft

"From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs": Karl Marx

Classwork will focus how do you know what you don't know, and when and where to ask for help and how much to pay for it. Modern tools for sourcing of labor will be discussed and demonstrated: craig's list, the ladders, monster.com, rentacoder.com, guru.com, getfriday.com

Organizational Structure and Behavior: Crafting the Dream Team

Sales and Business Development: Making More Money
Real Estate: the Office or the Garage?
Legal: the Counselors:
Finance, Payroll & HR: Not a Profit Center

Discussion of consultants, employees, contract labor, user generated content and other 21st century labor definitions. Discussion of the formation of IMDB.com and Celestial Seasonings.

Assignment #4

Create a organizational chart of not more than 10 people for your company and place it in a powerpoint slide. Place these into a powerpoint slide in bullet point form, along with estimated annual salaries and/or hourly costs per each headcount per year. Deliver in powerpoint slide format or the equivalent.