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How to Build a Winning Company Culture Among Remote Employees

Transformify

Now, instead of everyone communicating through limited email interfaces and clunky chat programs, employees are using sophisticated communication, collaboration, and file-sharing tools, and enjoying the freedom of online coworking spaces. Employees are having a problem collaborating. Employees are often late or absent.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. Having a conversation. I acknowledge it was a mistake.

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Why Sending Your Workers ‘Back To School’ Is Good Business

YoungUpstarts

Essentially, sending employees “back to school” is good business, but that doesn’t mean you need to enroll them in Harvard’s MBA program. There’s plenty you can do right within your own doors and that employees can do on their own. Many companies spend thousands of dollars to send their employees to seminars or conferences.

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4 Ways Employers Can Make Mental Health A Priority In The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

The CDC’s recent report showed that suicide rates have jumped over 30 percent in half the states since 1999. Authorities on workplace culture see those numbers as further evidence that employers should prioritize mental health initiatives for their employees. How employees feel directly impacts their contribution.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! It is the new cocktail party conversation.

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The Very First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in is You

Both Sides of the Table

And that’s what differentiates founders and early employees. I have a version of this conversation often. But then you can springboard from there to your next gig and you’ll be an experienced startup employee with functional experience at sales, marketing, product or whatever roles you played.” “Look.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

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