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Tip of the day -  Need company name? Try crowdsourcing https://teamtreehouse.com/ At one of his first jobs after college, Ryan Carson was a software developer who was asked to stay overnight to finish a project. "We ended up working 48 straight hours. I remember catching a few minutes' sleep on the floor," he said. That experience, all too common at startups, gave him a different idea: What if companies could prevent burnout (and reward their employees) by limiting the number of hours they worked? So in 2010, he gave it a shot. Treehouse, located in Portland, Ore., develops online courses in website-building, code writing and mobile apps. The firm, which Carson cofounded, has a second office in Orlando, Fla., and about half of its 75 employees work remotely. While purposefully avoiding San Francisco, Treehouse offers plenty of Silicon-Valley-style perks. The biggest: Every weekend starts on Thursday night. And that doesn't mean Monday through Thursday are 10-hour day...