You and Your Friend Have Created a Technology Start-Up

question 87

Multiple Choice

You and your friend have created a technology start-up.Since its inception,it has become very successful and you've had to hire many employees.At what point will you realize that it has become,in Simmel's terms,a large group?

• A) when you don't know everyone's name
• B) when formal job titles are created and formal hierarchies between employees emerge
• C) when you have to build cubicles for your employees' privacy
• D) when you begin issuing stock options to employees as part of their compensation package

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Definitions:

Foreland Basin

A structural basin that forms adjacent to mountain ranges, resulting from the earth's crust flexing downward due to the weight of overlying mountains.

Normal Faults

Faults where the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall, typically caused by extensional forces.

Crust Thicken

The process by which the Earth's crust becomes thicker as a result of tectonic forces, volcanic activities, or sediment deposition.

Accretionary Prism

A triangular accumulation of sediment and rock peeled from the surface of a subducting tectonic plate and attached to the overlying plate at a convergent boundary between plates.