Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Of course, nothing is totally free, and I have heard the horror stories of relatively small companies finding thirty or more employees spending most of their time scanning and using social media for promotions, or engaging high-priced consultants who never seem to be able to show any real return for all of their efforts.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

According to the SBA, 52% of all small businesses are home-based and of the 28 million small businesses in the US, 22 million of those are operated by people who consider themselves self-employed (they have no employees and no additional payroll). And, depending on the business you start, there may also be various government incentives.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 18, 2023

We're gonna talk about, you guessed it, employee branding, employer branding. There is what is the stand or the actual experience of a employee working there, right? Three, what is an employee want in a job? 09:22): Glassdoor has said, this is your score, and therefore that is your employee brand. I'm thrilled to be here.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees. We developed Scaleworks venture finance loans to fill a need we saw for our own B2B SaaS companies.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

followers on Facebook and is energetically remaining in the public square, but he commented that he’s personally carrying the freight for about 10 employees working on his website. Now it’s cost + markup + 14 layers of intermediaries who all get a cut = price paid by insurance or the government. He has over 1.2M

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Technical Review Software Review Nevada Silicon Valley 48

YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2018

Complicating the process even more is the new tax act recently introduced by the government. For example, the newly introduced “Qualified Business Income Deduction” may affect your decision to hire W-2 employees versus 1099’s. There are various tweaks to the new act that may alter the way you do business.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 12, 2015

Online review management systems are an established part of the web for both consumer and B2B. For B2B, online reviews and testimonials and becoming a requirement in healthcare, automotive, government and other industries. Self funded to date, 10-20 employees. > > The Bottom Line: ReviewInc.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2020

By speaking to stakeholders across the business, you can better understand the type of company that your employees want to work for. Likewise, B2B companies who previously relied on industry events and careers fairs to win new business and drive recruitment are now seeing more enquiries come in from their website.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. The founders, the CEO, the CFO, the executives, the employees, and the venture investors. Party B: The investment banks. Interestingly, the 7.5X

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There is such a thing as employees that don’t really give a frek about their job or company, they just come to work. Likewise, the number of employees that go well above the call of duty, look to constantly push personal and company boundaries is also quite small.) Most employees work diligently to deliver against set expectations.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Transformify was examined by the trusted B2B directory FinancesOnline.com and granted a score of 8.0 With Transformify CSR recruitment platform, companies can hire outstanding independent contractors, freelancers and regular employees to fill vacancies in their organization, whether as remote staff or office-based personnel.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

If you are a government analytics team, you are wasting time. They only want to throw up a one page lead-gen form if they are B2B. If you are a handful of employees small business, here's your balance between data capture , data reporting , data analysis : 05 | 20 | 25. That is what you want. No problem.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2012

But, here at crowdSPRING, these types of government rules, whether to address environmental or worker safety concerns, have next to no impact on how we operate. Many government contracts go to companies that provide generous contributions to politicians in both parties. Provide stability. Allow fair competition for contracts.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Companies with 1,000–5,000 employees have the highest average estimate of marketing team skills. Each year, the average company spends $994 per employee on training. Note: We asked respondents for the training budget on a per-employee basis; some responses clearly provided a total training budget (e.g. $1 spend $500 or less.

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Marketing Chad B2B Retention 128

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

I absolutely love the idea of collecting "first impressions" from current customers, employees or just randomly selected people. The information architecture on most website is terrible and the reason is that company employees create it for themselves. Here are some tools that are pretty cool and unique: Five Second Test.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Business Services (B2B). Comcast Corp., and Verizon Communications Inc. entrepreneurship.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

It will also lead to a massive expansion of government, whose only function will be to try to interpret and unravel an impossibly complex set of new tax rules. I live in House District 47 (Spencer Swalm) and Senate District 27 (Nancy Spence).

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence. Website: themarketingnutz.com. Marsha Collier. Website: coolebaytools.com. Holly Ransom.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 5, 2014

The result of this is that device management becomes all important or a non-starter because how many employees are going to allow their company to control their personal smartphone or tablet over a wireless carrier’s network? 2) The NSA screws the tech industry. 2) The NSA screws the tech industry. 3) Big data takes a breather.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 12, 2015

. > The Larger Market: Estimated at over $10 billion revenue per year, probably a lot more, online review management systems are an established part of the web for consumer and B2B markets. For B2B, online reviews and testimonials and becoming a requirement in healthcare, automotive, government and other industries.

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Aggregator Management Los Angeles Angel Investor 20

Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2017

I hired an employee who had B2B SaaS marketing experience, and he worked on getting users while I worked on building new features that would convince them to stick around. It’s important to have an attorney look over the terms of the term sheet before signing.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. Government fiat. carriers, Google, et al) covet an economic stream they believe they can take a slice of.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Otipo – offers SasS solution for managing personnel working in shifts allowing businesses to reduce attrition, increase employee satisfaction and lower wager costs. So who are the “Smartest&# startups in Israel? Check out the list after the jump. The solution offers small and medium businesses significant cost savings.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. Amos Spacecom.

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