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The Pitfalls Of State And Local Taxation For Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

These assumptions can create financially material pitfalls for companies with a false sense of security in the current business environment wherein remote workforces, professional employer organizations (PEO), and technology are being increasingly implemented and relied on to operate a business across the country and abroad.

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Digital Nomad Visa: Where to find the highest average salary?

Transformify

For businesses planning to expand overseas or hire internationally, it's important to be aware of average salaries to understand the expectations of prospective candidates. Switzerland has the highest cost of living in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. What does a social enterprise look like?

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4 American Cities That Want Your Business

Up and Running

It also scored an A+ from Thumbtack on tax codes, ease of hiring, and regulations and licensing. Boston, Massachusetts. Simple licensing procedures: Cities with convoluted or erratic licensing requirements will be much harder to operate in.

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14 Things Your Employees Are Dying To Hear From You

YoungUpstarts

Either way, this question, and the conversations it sparks, can give you valuable insight regarding how to improve your company’s operations, facilities, and culture. Sure, you originally hired each of your employees to do specific jobs. Of course you should try to hire employees who are confident and self-directed.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

To greet renters and hand over the keys, Hertz sometimes hires a stand-in through TaskRabbit, a Web-based company that matches time-deprived people in need of temporary assistants with freelance errand runners who have passed criminal background checks and are looking for extra income. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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My roundabout journey to Austin

Austin Startup

Two weeks before my scheduled start date (and a week after I put down a deposit for a downtown lease), HR called to let me know that the company over-hired for their Austin office and that I could re-interview in Mountain View, CA. And yes, I would be on the hook for breaking the lease! But as is usually the case, things worked out.

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