
Less jokes. Spend the time to do work.
recruit less people from defense background
develop a product everyone knows
co-locate work and the best party to execute the work. Get rid of incompetent managers
Pay is low. NO equity. They "really" appreciated my team's good work for a year and gave every person $250 gift card. lol.
Don't lie by giving higher base and lower bonus. Once your employee figure out, one will and can get everything back one way another.