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Savvy Tips to Recruit Your Startup Dream Team

Up and Running

Your startup or small business may find it challenging to compete against established companies for high-quality employees. Indeed, it’ll take more than charisma, networking, and business savvy to win over top talent — you’ll need a budget to match, too. How to build your startup dream team.

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Choke the Churn: How to Prevent Employee Turnover in Startup Businesses

Up and Running

On average, it costs nearly three times an employee’s salary to replace them. This cost includes recruitment, lost productivity, and lost opportunity. A high turnover of assets and inventory signal success for the company, but high employee turnover can be detrimental to the foundation of the business.

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Is Your Startup Ready For The Challenges Of An IPO?

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the Small Business Administration , about 600,000 new businesses are started in the U.S. There are real ongoing costs of maintaining a public company. million in annual recurring costs as a result of being public. each year, and a large percentage are always looking for money.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Edwin: Small to medium, so I have people that have teams of five people in their company, 20 people in their company up to 200. Jason: For example, like in America, small business is up to 150. I do think that most of my customers are small/medium businesses. Jason: Okay. I’m just clarifying. Edwin: Yes.

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Leveraging the Current Job Market

The Entrepreneurial Mind

In today's job market, the large number of underemployed give small businesses a fighting chance in landing the perfect employee. Small businesses have always had other means of non-salary rewards and compensation that are not always used in larger businesses.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

company has to be more than small and newly founded to be astartup. There are millions of small businesses in America, butonly a few thousand are startups. To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business. So after this the option pool is down to 13.7%). [ No, not generally.A

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

[link] tenthings most business-grads are too arrogant to realize that they are selling technology, not hot air, so they need a tech team to build upon, not a product. Kellie This couldn’t have come at a better time… I’m about to step into that small business selfemployment arena. All what you said is so true.