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Dear SaaStr: The Startup I’m Working At is Getting Acquired. How Much Can I Negotiate?

SaaStr

How Much Can I Negotiate? Unfortunately, as a non-CEO, non-founder of an acquired start-up … you have almost no ability to really negotiate. Overall, your ability to negotiate in M&A in any context, in any job, is based on your ability to walk for something better, or just walk. So you can try a bit to negotiate.

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Dear SaaStr: As An Employee, How Do I Negotiate My Compensation in an Acquisition?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: As An Employee, As an acquired employee, How Do I Negotiate My Compensation in an Acquisition? Unfortunately, as a non-CEO, non-founder of an acquired start-up … you have almost no ability to really negotiate. You can’t negotiate nothin’ much here. Especially below the VP level.

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Resources for Job Seekers in the 2020 Economy

SalesLoft

Candor: A service that helps people negotiate job offers, the company has created a (user-generated) interactive Airtable listing of ~5,500 companies of all sizes and their current status — who’s still hiring, who’s in a hiring freeze, and who’s pulling back offers. Idaho: Idaho Department of Labor.

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Salary and Career: Kristin Carey on the benefits of doing some of everything

Martech

And so, I picked Boise, Idaho, first because I love the outdoors and I was thinking, no one’s gonna pick Boise. I also think women just need to ask for whatever they want and know how to negotiate properly and know their value. I was an asset manager in their training program. What do you think about that?

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Best Sales Rep Salary: Average Sales Salary in 50 States

Lead Fuze

Whether you’re looking for a job, negotiating a raise, or looking to hire sales reps — knowing the average sales rep salary for your state will help you! Salaries can stagnate and leave you needing a cost of living increase in addition to your commission (which you may have to negotiate ). The sales industry can be finicky.

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6 Psychological Tricks to Help You Nail Your Next Interview

Hubspot

When the subject of pay finally comes around, you''ve probably heard that it''s better to aim high and then negotiate down to your desired range. When we encounter a number -- even an irrelevant number -- we fixate on it, and it influences our judgment," explains Todd Thorenson, Professor of Psychology at the University of Idaho.

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I was sitting in high school and I had this idea to build some shareware software, so like any enterpriser in 9th grade, I wrote some code, put it on America Online, CompuServe and Prodigy at the time, and a random stranger from Idaho emailed … Or, sent a check in the mail for $12.95 to my residence in Tallahassee, Florida.