Up and Running

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

But eventually, all successful businesses will have to start taking on employees, and that’s when the fun really begins. Before you get there, however, you have to actually complete the interviewing, hiring, and onboarding process. Their responses ranged from practical tips on hiring to what to look for in a first employee.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2014

It could be time to hire some help. If you own your own business and find that you simply don’t have enough time on your hands to be able to do all the things you need to do, you may be asking yourself should you hire an employee? . A new employee can breathe new life into your business and generate new ideas.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 17, 2010

If this is your attitude, your conception of tech support is completely backwards and you're missing out on important channels for marketing, product development, and sales. Are you really going to leave that up to your worst-treated, least-paid, least-qualified employees? Tech support is sales. That's sales.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2019

As a business owner, you have to ensure that your employees are equipped with the right safety gear and your workplace or business establishment has the proper safety devices and equipment. If your workplace or business establishment is safe and secure, you’ll attract more clients and investors, which is good for your business.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 15, 2023

Getting ahead of the competition in the security business is one thing, but staying ahead of it is quite another. Smart software is revolutionizing the way security firms operate, changing everything from shift scheduling to camera monitoring. Are you wondering how to stay ahead of the security industry competition?

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 30, 2012

It isn’t that the job listing sites are bad, its just that employer and their mother uses those systems to find employees. In other words, the job board watering hole is saturated, and the select few great employees get picked up before you even get a chance to print out their resume. Your Hired! Tweet-an-Employee.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2020

When setting up your business, you’ll want to be sure to use your resources as effectively as possible; that’s why hiring an outsourced IT service provider like Computers In The City in your area can give your business the best start possible. With their help, your core team of employees won’t have to endure the stress of technology failure.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2019

Not only does this clutter one’s workspace and make it more difficult to find important information, but it also presents a serious information security risk. Managers should ask their staff to shred any documents they no longer use at the end of each week to ensure that workspaces remain organised and secure. Key Takeaways.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). Hire a CEO to Go Public. People had to actually pay you for your product.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Sales pipeline/forecast. I listened in on a board call with an enterprise software company this week, and when the CEO said, “Our VP of sales assured me our pipeline won’t be affected.” Nothing is more important than assuring the company can continue to pay its employees. Try to protect the most vulnerable employees.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2014

If an IT investment does not increase productivity, drive sales, makes a company more efficient, reduce costs or opens up bigger markets, then it is incurring costs that are actually reducing profits. For example, if your employees work from an office, mobility and portability are not must-have options. Be a tech follower.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

For a startup, sustained revenue is of paramount importance: a paucity of sales in one month could lead to bankruptcy the next. After Success Systems secured a contract with The Nielsen Company to supply them with data, Nielsen changed the terms of the deal. Hiring a good lawyer also may mean saying no to your “Cousin Vinnie.”

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2023

The cost-of-living crisis, fuelled by a range of economic headwinds, has seen businesses and their employees alike suffer from a severe loss of spending power, with the impact being felt throughout global HR departments. Check-in During the Onboarding Process The cost-of-living crisis is likely to impact employees in different ways.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

SaaS data integration is the process of distributing applications to your team or anyone within your company conveniently, securely, without configuration. Reduce the Time Spent Onboarding New Employees. Onboarding goes beyond hiring new employees. What is a SaaS Application Integration?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

The sale of software isn’t subject to sales tax.”. Our product is delivered electronically; sales tax doesn’t apply to us.”. “We We only have work-from-home employees outside of our home state; we aren’t subject to tax in other states.”. an income tax or a sales tax collection responsibility) on that company.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

Seeing a 200-percent revenue growth in just the first year after securing that loan, TRISTAR took out an additional $500,000 SBA-backed loan to expand its physical presence into two more locations. It has grown from five employees generating $120,000 in annual revenue to 350 employees generating annual revenues of $16.5

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That attack changed the face of airport security forever. All of these businesses had to roll back their remote work policies and call employees back on-premises. Lag in information access: Remote employees spend more time and effort locating information pertinent to their tasks. Unhealthy Employee Morale.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Cyber Security. If you want to make the most of your business IT, you need to make cyber security a principal focus. Last year almost 170 million personal records and files were exposed due to cyber security. Hire IT Support Team. And, the way to do that is to hire an IT support team as soon as possible.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

You might hire a part-time worker who steals your data and sells it on the “dark web.” The owner very likely has a business plan that describes their sales tactics and goals, so why not create a plan to protect data assets? Ideally, the company will use secure cloud storage for the bulk of its data. Set the responsibilities.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Not only can these attacks harm your sales but they also are bad for your brand reputation. But for small businesses, especially if you are just starting to gain traction, hiring a team of security specialists, most often, is out of the question. 1. Educate your employees. Some more work is required.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

And, if I told you that by the beginning of May, you’d make every hire remotely, you might have laughed in my face. …suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Announcement: Square lets employees work from home permanently.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? Predictability.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. We’d managed to secure another infusion of cash, but it wasn’t going to last long. It wasn’t that I had somehow inherited dumb employees. Educate our sales channel(s).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

By the year 2021, my company had a strong sales force. In the end, though, we became the company's most successful sales team across the country and I surely played a significant role in this achievement. Taking a risk by increasing marketing spend (strategically), has paid off substantially, seeing our annual sales grow by over 30%.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

When paying employees becomes too expensive, many companies either lay people off or keep their workers but reduce salaries. While this strategy may lower your current overhead, it can also have a negative impact on employee morale and on your company’s long-term financial health. This will encourage everyone to do their best work.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Restaurant owners and employees are being treated extremely poorly by many customers since service has changed with the lack of staffing. Additionally, they better have a good handle on the well-being of the employees. Without these key metrics, employees will be free agents and looking for better work culture. 3- Restaurant.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

It can be a small and nimble startup like Origin, or a company with 50 employees and hiring more every quarter. The same goes for recruiting employees. Having previous work experience proves that you know what it takes to provide security and reliability for someone looking at your job descriptions. This slows you down.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2014

I wrote that the most controversial hire after an A-round is actually an office manager / admin person for the company. The next level of the hierarchy is safety – security, health, basic money & employment. It helps with employee retention. My rationale is simply. These include food, water, air, sex, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). See this anecdote by Steve Blank on how a hotshot sales executive can sink your startup. Chief Security Officer. Chief Brand Officer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He stressed the significance of employee dishonesty insurance as a protective layer against potential embezzlement, a critical step often overlooked by many small businesses. 03:08] What is employee dishonesty insurance? [04:25] 04:25] How do you ensure employees do not feel distrusted when internal controls are implemented? [06:10]

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

by Keith Johnstone, Head of Marketing of Peak Sales Recruiting. It is also an ideal time for young professionals to secure outstanding jobs. High-growth startups in the software sales space need to hire adept salespeople to be competitive. If high ongoing salaries are a problem, consider a hiring bonus.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe hire an employee for $30 per hour and re-bill them at $60. Suppose you hire an employee at $60,000/year. Rules are complicated and vary by state, but as a rule of thumb you pay 15% in taxes including Medicare and Social Security. Oh sure, founders work 60-80-hour weeks, but not employees. What to do?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Once you identify your ideal customer, you can tailor your marketing and sales plan to that person. Components of this section include: Your marketing and sales plan. Marketing and sales plan. Hiring plans. Some sources recommend using social media and demographic information to learn who your ideal customer is.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 9- Optimize sales process. Partnerships, pay-per-click ads, resellers, direct-sales people and social media are all ways in which our organization generates revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 23, 2018

by Penny Garbus, co-author of “ Mining New Gold — Managing Your Business Data “ Much of what keeps a business operating and profitable lies not on a store shelf but deep inside a computer system, where critical information such as inventory, customer mailing lists, employee files, sales records and vendor information is stored.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

When starting a new local security business, it can be helpful to position your company as one with specialized staff who are trained to protect. Next up, are several tips for starting a local security business and landing those crucial initial contracts with clients. Hiring Staff You Can Trust. Training Your Security Personnel.

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