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4 Essential Hires If You’re Starting a Business in 2020

Up and Running

It might seem easier to put off thinking about your first essential new hires. Try to do it all and you’ll spend a lot of time learning new skills (that you’ll eventually hire for) when you should be focusing on growing your business. Hire someone who understands Generation Z (or your target demographic). A marketing maven.

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Tips For Hiring An Independent Contractor

YoungUpstarts

For small business owners, this adds up to many opportunities to round out staff, manage business surges, and leverage expertise for specific situations. It’s easy to find and hire an independent contractor. Any person or business you hire to do work on your behalf, but not as an employee, is an independent contractor.

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What You Need To Know Before You Hire Your Next Remote Team Member

YoungUpstarts

Large businesses typically have strong HR departments to help them navigate the hiring process. For that reason, many small business owners find themselves wearing the HR hat and trying to navigate the difficult task of finding and hiring the right team members. Why is hiring the right candidates so difficult?

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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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5 Things Every Small Business Should Know About Payroll

YoungUpstarts

Managing payroll, and ensuring all the relevant taxes are paid, is a key part of the responsibility that comes with having staff. All of this work is encouraging some small business owners to outsource managing payroll. When a new employer starts hiring, he needs to fill out an IRS W-4 form. New Hire Reporting.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Ben Horowitz ’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is driving the conversation around startup management this year. Bob Sutton is a Stanford professor and the author of several best-selling books on standout management, including Scaling Up Excellence , an investigation of high-growth companies. Eric Ries will interview him.

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The Average Startup Overnight Success Takes Six Years

Startup Professionals Musings

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8