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Female Founder Interview: Author and Business Leader Martha Razo

The Startup Magazine

and owner of Solix Business Services, both Chicago businesses, created this book to share the stories of women taking their futures and lives into their own hands. Every business owner, even if they have someone assigned, should review their profit and loss and balance sheet on a monthly basis. Hiring others?

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Twitter Link Roundup #235 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

This Invaluable Lesson Will Keep You From Making Catastrophic Hiring Mistakes - crowdspring.co/XeV4JS. Hiring startup engineers? SaaS Startup Balance Sheets: How Much Cash & How Much Debt to Raise – crowdspring.co/XyDAJ3. Good long read on the history of Motorola | Chicago magazine – crowdspring.co/1nQMcBM.

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Is Employee Cynicism Killing Your Culture? Ten Strategic Ways To Re-Configure It Around Trust.

YoungUpstarts

The key is to hire and promote leaders who truly do live the values your company espouses. Legendary basketball coach Phil Jackson once held a Chicago Bulls practice in the dark. They’ve found a meaning in selling insurance that goes much, much deeper than balance sheets and profits. Make it safe to speak up.

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Is Employee Cynicism Killing Your Culture?  Ten Strategic Ways to Re-Configure It Around Trust

YoungUpstarts

The key is to hire and promote leaders who truly do live the values your company espouses. Legendary basketball coach Phil Jackson once held a Chicago Bulls practice in the dark. They’ve found a meaning in selling insurance that goes much, much deeper than balance sheets and profits. Make it safe to speak up.

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Tips for Writing a Successful Business Plan for a Daycare Center

Up and Running

As someone who owns eight successful daycares in the Chicago area, I know the strategies and approaches that work when it comes to developing a sound business plan for a daycare center. What criteria will you use in hiring staff? A business plan should look about three to five years into the future. What’s your curriculum based on?

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Female Founder Interview – Claudia Freed, CEO of Non-Profit EALgreen

The Startup Magazine

This includes start up funding (our first balance sheet had less than $10,000, today we are over $5 million), branding and market positioning (in 2016 we became EALgreen to emphasize the positive environmental impact of our business), and digital innovation (in 2021 we invested in best-in class, integrated technology platform to track donations).

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I’m not against MBA’s (I have one myself from University of Chicago and my lovely wife was graduated from Wharton – she loves to remind me that they usually score higher in the rankings than we do).

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