Up and Running

APRIL 14, 2021

And with the rise in remote work during the pandemic, a shift in how businesses think about their employees and hiring practices, and the growing number of people pursuing business ventures online, it will likely keep growing. One of the most important things to consider is whether you’re working with an employee or an independent contractor.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Recent research estimates that one in five employees will have an artificial intelligence (AI) system as their coworker by 2022. Great leaders do not command teams blindly, rejecting employee feedback in favor of rigid protocol and critically not creating dialogue. Fostering a Collaborative Culture.

Artificial Inteligence 154

Artificial Inteligence San Diego Leadership B2C 154

Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2021

When done well, payroll can help your organization stay safe from legal consequences and keep your employees content. To avoid these 10 common payroll errors, like misclassifying employees and miscalculating pay, let’s examine why correcting these mistakes are so important. The amount paid to employees each pay period.

Small Business 82

Small Business Software Review Non-Compete Salary 82

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2022

Recycling bins should be placed beside every desk, encouraging employees to use them. All your employees must be on board and committed to making a difference. All your mail can be delivered to a secure location near you, whether you live in Idaho, California, Georgia, or elsewhere.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

It has grown from five employees generating $120,000 in annual revenue to 350 employees generating annual revenues of $16.5 Black Diamond Equipment rose from the ashes of Chouinard Equipment’s bankruptcy when its former staff banded together to establish the climbing industry’s first company owned by its employees.

Columbus 134

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! He spent a bunch of this time in Canada. Irony, hey?).

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Canada Green South Carolina 282

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

We only have work-from-home employees outside of our home state; we aren’t subject to tax in other states.”. A company’s physical presence can be measured by employees or contractors working or traveling into a jurisdiction on behalf of the company for more than a de minimis amount of days (e.g., more than two days).

South Dakota 138

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 2, 2020

Whenever you get into any kind of legal dispute, whether it’s an intellectual property claim, a tax audit, or a lawsuit from a disgruntled customer or former employee, the best tool in your arsenal is written records. Remember that as the founder, the things you value trickle down to the other officers, managers, and employees of the company.

Software Review 114

Software Review Intellectual Property Limited Liability Company IP 114

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2018

Research from the Universities of California, Berkley and Stanford University found that a big problem for many failed tech start-ups was premature scaling, essentially businesses growing too fast. Fast growth will result in your business needing to recruit more employees. Yet fast growth isn’t always the best route. Source: Pixabay.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Startup California Business Model 94

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Failing at that business, terminating my employees, and shutting the doors was the most challenging thing I had done. I admire Howard Schultz for using his thinking skills in taking over a company name where he previously worked as an employee. When Koum was young, his poor family emigrated to California from Ukraine.

Entrepreneur 94

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2023

Both of these are purpose-driven businesses that boast high growth, high loyalty, and very low employee turnover. Recognizing the interdependent nature of life and the human foundations and business, a business needs to create value with and for its various stakeholders (customers, employees, vendors, investors, communities, etc.).

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 13, 2021

The last thing you want to happen is for your company to get sued by customers, employees, or even the government, for failing to adhere to your legal obligations. Your business will undoubtedly hold all kinds of digital information on customers and employees. Employee Rights. What steps must you take? Health and Safety.

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Software Review Technical Review Security California 52

YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2017

Nexus commonly comes into play as businesses begin to grow because it typically applies once a company maintains employees, service people, independent service agents, inventory, offices, warehouses, or traveling representatives. Robert was formerly a Senior Tax Auditor for the State of California as well as the co-founder of Taxcient.

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Sales Affiliate California Software Review 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A few examples of well-known benefit corporations in the USA include Kickstarter, Etsy in New York, Patagonia in California, and Seventh Generation in Vermont. Employees tend to stay longer with the organization, reducing the costs of recruitment and retraining. It is easier to recruit and retain human capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. You also ran the risk that if you hired employees quickly and then demand wasn’t as strong as expected it was incredibility hard to fire people.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 22, 2016

Lightspeed Systems, which makes education software, announced plans to relocate all of its operations and employees from Bakersfield, Calif. The Bakersfield Californian reports Lightspeed has about 80 employees and most of […] The post Lightspeed Systems Moves Operations from California to Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2018

by Kimberly White, author of “ The Shift: How Seeing People as People Changes Everything “ The research is clear that employee engagement has a powerful positive impact on turnover and productivity. They only give employees one more thing they have to do. The answer lies in a nursing home in California.

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Employee Leadership Kansas California 118

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As it turns out, innovation is not so much systems and processes as it is about building a risk-taking culture, according to Tellis, a professor of marketing, management and organization as well as the director of the Center for Global Innovation at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

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Technical Review Southern California California Naming 192

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

These emerging market economies are now tired of being mere producers of “Designed in California” products and are starting to invest in innovation. This increased competition reduces the benefits of globalization for American companies and their employees, but the net effect remains largely positive.

Technical Review 155

Technical Review United States Software Review China 155

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2020

Both of these are purpose-driven businesses that boast high growth, high loyalty, and very low employee turnover. Recognizing the interdependent nature of life and the human foundations and business, a business needs to create value with and for its various stakeholders (customers, employees, vendors, investors, communities, etc.).

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California New York Business Model Leadership 320

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Here’s something other entrepreneurs look forward to:: #1- Employee engagement. I’ve decided that we need to make 2020 the year of employee engagement. When I look around the office, I notice so many things that would be changed if our employees weren’t involved and happy. 5- Developing a new standard for my employees.

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Entrepreneur Employee Demand Technical Review 72

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee. If you’re unsure, you’ve just decided.)

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Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 219

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

In recent months, Silicon Valley has featured quite a bit in the news, as some high-profile household tech companies have been laying off droves of employees. Like over in California, competition here is hot, and demand for high-tech innovation from food, climate tech, and agri-tech is constantly growing.

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South Africa New York City San Francisco Technical Review 136

Board Effect

APRIL 12, 2023

A nonprofit’s bylaws state that at least one member of the board must be an employee of a state health department. California is an example of a state that mandates voting rights for all board members, including ex officio board members (Corporations Code section 5220). Can ex officio members vote ? They can, and they generally do.

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Illinois Software Review Affiliate California 105

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

His practice, Complete Family Vision Care Optometry, is in San Diego, California. Dr. Aaron Neufeld, OD is an Owner/Optometrist at Los Altos Optometric Group in Los Altos, California. Take that opportunity to ask for online reviews and referrals. . Dr. Eric White, OD has been in private practice since 1985. Learn more here: [link].

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San Diego Technical Review California Retention 111

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? He mostly covers Southern California. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

SiliconHills

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We recently announced that Oracle is implementing a more flexible employee work location policy and has changed its Corporate Headquarters from Redwood Shores, California to Austin, Texas,” according to a statement from the company. “We Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas. “We

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Kelly McAdoo is the City Manager & CEO of the City of Hayward in Alameda County, California. 1 about how she uses Lean Startup principles to empower government employees and to improve resident satisfaction. What kind of reception did you get when you tried to get other government employees on board with practicing Lean Startup?

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Accordingly, legal counsel must review all of the written agreements between the founder and his prior employer (as well as the employee handbook/manual) to determine if there are any provisions that may give the prior employer rights to the startup’s IP. . In other words, the startup actually purchases the pre-incorporation IP.

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IP Software Review Founder Technical Review 52

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Let’s focus on the particular aspect of social interactions among employees. To make things more harmonious within the workplace, the human resources people are also tasked with providing opportunities for social interaction for the employees, building team integrity and bolstering their loyalty towards the company.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

Over time, though, military spending wound down and many large aerospace and military companies left Southern California. Dealflow in Southern California is much more organic and less efficient. Los Angeles, at least metaphorically, became more of a media/entertainment town.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Federal employees automatically receive workers’ compensation and, depending on your state’s laws , you may get workers’ compensation if you are hired by a private company. Workers’ compensation helps employees when they are not able to work because of their injuries. Hearing and Vision Loss. Psychological Disorders.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2022

All of the employees are better and have shown equal support and understanding towards the work and the demands after the reopening of the office. I was born and raised in Mexico but currently, I live in beautiful San Diego California. I have improved my company’s productivity by improving the quality of my employees’ work.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur San Diego Australia Employee 110

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Our average delivery times to California are 50% faster than Amazon. Your employees stand up at 11:00 AM each day and sing the company song. Consider how much louder your 11:00 AM company sing-a-long will be when your employees see you laying it out there and going head to head with your competitors. You catch my drift.

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Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 124

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2015

If you want to combat this at your business, you have to make providing great service a point of pride for your employees. Yet many leaders and employees seem to fear it. And if an employee is not confident in his abilities and decisions, he often does not want the responsibility of being empowered. Acknowledge achievements.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

But why is the percentage of female tech employees so low compared to the percentage of overall female employees and what can and should we do to change it? Shortly after this post, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick sent a blast email to Uber employees stating that 15.1%

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Hunter Walker

JULY 21, 2017

NYTimes Conor Dougherty covers the use of employee noncompetes in Idaho as a weapon in the conflict between local existing companies and startups. Residing in a state (California) where noncompetes are toothless, I was surprised to read that research suggests 1 in 5 American workers are subject to a noncompete.

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Idaho Employee California Naming 48