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When Security Can Become Your Business Differentiator, Everybody Wins

YoungUpstarts

Non-cyber security small-to-medium sized businesses are focused on creating value around their core competency, not cyber security. Typically, the first few key hires in IT are ones that will help “keep the lights on,” deal with password lock-outs and provision and configure network services and company laptops.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

I love the enthusiasm, the boundless energy and the sense of possibility that comes from having an idea that hasn’t yet been beat up in the marketplace of competing ideas, customer contracts, VC skepticism, jaded journalists or fickle consumers who are on the The New, New Thing. It literally can put you out of business. HR & Legal.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

As such, Google continued to get stopped at our paywall during crawls, and we became virtually non-existent in its search engine results pages. Googlebot) accesses the content with a valid IP, however, it’s presented with the content in the HTML and has correct paywall structured data. Flexible Sampling (2017).

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Key Contracts Every Business Must Use

YoungUpstarts

Whether a business is contemplating entering into a partnership, hiring a service provider or in the process of selling itself, a non-disclosure agreement should be utilized when information is shared with third parties. An employment offer letter or employment agreement should be utilized when hiring employees.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

ConversionXL

Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. Competing businesses. Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. And, there are potential tax traps as well, especially when Non Qualified options are traded for services.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. The same goes for "non-competes" or non- solicitation covenants. If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? What is amateurish is presenting poorly written or lopsided ones.

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