Policies
You must do this by the 1st of every month in order to get paid.
What is send Laura your invoice?
You can get an unlimited amount of this item at Blue Seedling.
What are books? 📚
The activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.
What is marketing?
This type of organization is still searching for a scalable, repeatable, profitable business model.
What is a startup?
This approach to feedback means challenging directly and showing you care personally — being kind and clear, specific and sincere.
What is Radical Candor?
This is what you should do before using your personal credit card to make a purchase on behalf of a client.
What is “get approval from your lead and email the client to confirm?
This annual perk helps you improve your work-from-home setup — think standing desks, better lighting, or even a new chair.
What is the "pimp your office" perk?
Unlike W2 employees, 1099 workers are responsible for this.
What is calculating and paying their own taxes?
Unlike bakeries, startups often take this long to become profitable.
What is years—or possibly never?
This part of an OKR should always be qualitative and aspirational — no numbers allowed.
What is an Objective?
It may be a manual process, but keeping this updated on your Blue Seedling calendar is non-negotiable — it’s how we schedule meetings efficiently.
What is your true availability?
This is the annual amount Blue Seedling will match when you donate to a cause you care about.
What is $200?
This skill is all about consciously collaborating with your lead or client to get the best results for everyone involved.
What is managing up?
The simplest version of a product you build to gather early user feedback.
What is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)?
This part of an OKR should always be quantitative — so you can clearly measure success.
What is a Key Result?
When working from a public Wi-Fi network like a coffee shop or co-working space, Blue Seedling requires you to use this for a secure connection.
What is a VPN?
Whether it’s a cooking class, pottery workshop, or improv school, this perk lets you pursue any type of learning.
What is the "learn anything" stipend?
You bought new clothes to look sharp at a conference. You can write off this amount.
What is $0?
(Clothing for appearance alone isn’t deductible)
This type of “fit” means your product solves a real problem for enough people willing to pay.
What is product-market fit?
This Blue Seedling value means we don’t just point out problems — we show up with solutions and a positive mindset. No snark allowed.
What is "Think positive. Think, I got this"?
When Blue Seedling or a team member pays for something on behalf of a client, this percentage is added to the expense to cover admin costs.
What is a 30% markup?
This Blue Seedling perk celebrates your work-iversary by encouraging you to unplug — whether it’s a staycation, a weekend trip, or a dream vacation.
What is the Anniversary Travel Bonus?
This mandatory process exists because mistakes in email can’t be undone — and one error can damage client trust.
What is the Email QA Process?
This is the key reason why software startups can generate massive returns without a proportional increase in cost.
What is low marginal cost / software scales without increasing expenses?
Blue Seedling aims to respond to client emails within this time frame — even if it’s just to say, “I’ll get back to you tomorrow.”
What is the same business day?