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.

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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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

When he did manage to start his own business, it was short-lived and failed. 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.

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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.

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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. Optometrists should work towards a CEO model where they spend more time working on business development and management. Learn more here: [link].

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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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Board Effect

APRIL 12, 2023

There is generally some degree of confusion surrounding the ex officio meaning and role among board directors, executive directors, CEOs and managers of corporations and nonprofits. Your board management system provides easy access to your bylaws and Robert’s Rules of Order any time board members need a review.

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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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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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Transformify

MAY 22, 2023

Additionally, the proposal tackles the issue of algorithmic management, a prevalent practice across various forms of work. The proposed Directive aims to address this issue by ensuring accurate employment status determination, promoting transparency, and holding algorithmic management accountable.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

Tightening of monetary policies has led to skyrocketing interest rates as central banks try to manage rampant running inflation, supply chain issues persist despite the fact that the pandemic is now in the rearview — and venture capital funding has looked to dry up almost overnight.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior. Of course it makes no sense to have great people management and a crappy product. She started it with a partner, 50-50. They were close friends, lived down the road and members of our synagogue.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2016

For a firm to become truly innovative, Gary Hamel and Nancy Tennant suggest in their recent Harvard Business Review article all employees should be taught to think like innovators. Holton is responsible for client relationship development and client service in Cleary Gull ’s Wealth Management Group.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2011

Some of them, such as Eyebobs in Minneapolis, Trilogy Health Services in Kentucky, Defender Direct in Indianapolis, SecureWorks in Atlanta, and Mellace Family Brands in California, were well-known companies. You must evolve from being a doer to a manager of employees and then eventually to a manager of managers (a leader).

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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. After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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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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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. How do we give our employees tools to have productive conversations with the community?

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

A partner allows me the flexibility to miss a session or two (my job as a California Coastal Commissioner meets three days every month up and down the coast of California.) TA’s make managing 60 students working on cases and team projects manageable. Finally our TA’s managed the mentors we had supporting the students.

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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? How to manage costs - One of the biggest frustrations that people have with lawyers are unexpected costs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

But as a business grows, managing growth and organizing information becomes increasingly more difficult. What used to be easy when you had one employee and two customers is more difficult when you employ five people and have 25 customers. That’s where a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution can help. Why a CRM?

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Board Effect

JANUARY 10, 2020

The collection of these issues means that healthcare risk management teams have to stay on their toes. Gaining Perspectives from Around the World on Healthcare Risk Management. Employees and others are increasingly pursuing their right to blow the whistle on suspicious practices , which signals an uptick in audit activity.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Robert McKenna III , a well-known medical malpractice lawyer , is a partner in the Huntington Beach, California law firm Kjar, McKenna & Stockalper LLP. In hybrid work arrangements, employees spend time each week onsite at a company’s offices and the rest of the time working remotely. People can manage their time and their work.”.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

Company culture is defined as the shared values, beliefs and practices of company employees including management. Company culture changes as the employees in the business change, as management makes strategic decisions and as the business environment shifts. Look for common employee behaviors.

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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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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

These two recommendations will help you compute the opportunity size for your management team. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Costco Special: Get an extra year of warranty!

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Board Effect

APRIL 3, 2019

As a result, boards are needing to focus more of their time and energy on strategies that help them manage evolving risks. Boards must evaluate their risks related to their balance sheets and employee retirement asset pools. An Enterprise Risk Management Approach Meets Hospital Board Challenges.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

An irreversible decision is firing an employee, launching your product, a five-year lease for an expensive new building, etc. Too often, CEOs and small business managers suffer from analysis paralysis. If the decision was a bad call you can unwind it in a reasonable period of time. These are usually difficult or impossible to reverse.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

I figured after so many people were asking to me help them out with marketing projects on the side, I could do this gig part-time while also managing the kids and household. As the agency work poured in, I also tried to manage everything on the home front. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. San Francisco, California. Alexia Tsotsis. Thursday, August 9th, 2012. View Staff Page. Follow me on twitter. Contact TechCrunch. Thanks for the tip!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Every startup has some methodology for product development, launch and life-cycle management. Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. In this post I’m going to describe the flaws of the product development model. It’s a big idea.)

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2018

A Disney employee is now required to enter every room at least once every 24 hours. Disney told The New York Times it plans to make the same change at all Disney World resorts, as well as at Disneyland properties in Anaheim, California.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 19, 2015

A happy team leads to a good product, so keeping your employees positive should make the top of your to-do list. Below, 15 founders from Young Entrepreneur Council share the surprising perks your employees might really care about. I never realized how much our employees loved and appreciated lunch until we skipped it for a week.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

When I asked our trade show manager she looked at me like I was the house idiot and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to set up our trade show booth?” But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” This is a big idea.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. And he offered the following insight into the VC- founder relationship: Evangelos : As you understand product-market fit, this is where finessing and reworking of the management team, is very important. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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