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Small business and startups: 5 great self-service HR resources

crowdSPRING Blog

I am talking about the nitty-gritty reality of operating a business, paying the bills, washing the dishes, and managing employees. LinkedIn provides some great tools for identifying and screening candidates and allows a business to leverage their own network and word-of-mouth to identify the most qualified candidates.

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Calling Financial Innovators

VC Adventure

Sweet Grace was born in 2008, as the Great Recession ripped through the United States, particularly affecting working-class communities like Lawrence, Massachusetts where Danaris lives. G iven the economic needs driving them, we’re seeing a surge in business starts post-pandemic. She can identify the exact minute the bakery was born.

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Entrepreneurship For All in Longmont, Colorado

Feld Thoughts

They are focused on fostering small business development and entrepreneurial activity amongst under-networked and under-resourced populations in communities that have been traditionally overlooked for economic investment.

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The Changing Nature of Entrepreneurship | EforAll

VC Adventure

EforAll combines immersive business training, mentorship and an extensive support network to help support their entrepreneurs. EforAll Mentoring Ask – Mentoring with EforAll is a fantastic way to support small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs in your own background.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

There are many companies that are competing to be the “operating system” for small businesses. Among those competing for this vision are PayPal/eBay, Square and Groupon, with each struggling to pull together pieces of the equation and, importantly, reach the small business in a cost-efficient manner at scale.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

YoungUpstarts

As much as people love mom-and-pop businesses, it can be hard for these small shops to compete with the big guys. Nonetheless, some of the biggest and most successful companies in the world got their start as a small mom-and-pop business. and sells products through a wholesale customer network of nearly 20,200 stores.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Guerrilla P.R. & SEO Most Profitable Customer Acquisition Strategies

ReadWriteStart

First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. My sense is the market is not as broad, and most small businesses do not hire very actively. Magne Consulting. Discuss.