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How to Successfully Approach Trade-Offs as an Entrepreneur in 2021

Up and Running

In fact, Americans are becoming small business owners at an accelerated clip: New filings for employer identification numbers are higher than they’ve been since 2007 , according to the U.S. Joanna Gaines started out with a small home goods store in Waco, Texas. Weigh hiring an employee versus implementing software.

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How CareerPlug Saved 25 Days of Work with Chargify Business Intelligence

Austin Startup

CareerPlug and Chargify first partnered together in 2018 after CareerPlug recognized it had a significant business problem that fellow Texas-based Chargify could solve. About CareerPlug Since 2007 CareerPlug has worked to make hiring easier for over 12,000 growing companies in the U.S. and Canada.

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Considering Employee Safety In Startup Mode

YoungUpstarts

In addition, the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Report of March 2007 showed statistic of 15 killed and 180 employees injured during new chemical unit start ups at a Texas refinery. The manager of each department should regularly review the safety manual with new hires during start up mode.

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

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It is incumbent on management to create and sustain an environment that leads to hiring, encourages quality work, rewards effort and accomplishment, treats workers fairly, pays an equitable wage, provides for basic welfare, respects families, supplies adequate work flexibility, and, importantly, celebrates the work itself. How cool is that?

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Beauty Pays: Beautiful Websites (and People) Get Better Results

ConversionXL

Economists at the University of Texas analyzed data from 5 large scale surveys conducted between 1971 and 2009 in USA, Canada, Germany and UK to find links between happiness and attractiveness. So before you even hire this person to sell your home, you already have a positive impression of that person in your mind.”

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Facebook to Open Austin Office of 200

Austin Startup

million through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) for Facebook to create a sales and operations office in Austin. The TEF continues to be a critical, deal closing tool for Texas, helping to attract jobs and businesses and grow our state’s diverse economy,” Gov. This investment will create 200 jobs and more than $3.1 Perry said.

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Going Global At Launch: Tips For Building A Micro-Multinational Startup

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In our hyper-competitive global economy, startups are just as likely to find their first customers in Paris, France, as in Paris, Texas. In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”.

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