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Tips for Writing a Successful Business Plan for a Daycare Center

Up and Running

Working out a business plan for your daycare center can be a challenge. As someone who owns eight successful daycares in the Chicago area, I know the strategies and approaches that work when it comes to developing a sound business plan for a daycare center. What criteria will you use in hiring staff?

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5 Startup Cost Realities Most Founders Underestimate

Startup Professionals Musings

As you scale up the business, you realize how many people you really need, including full-timers, managers, and hourly workers. Salary costs go up rapidly, as people require training, bonuses, expense reimbursals, and an office with a requisite support team and supplies. Obviously, the more detailed your business plan, the better.

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What Makes Employees Productive in a New Startup?

ReadWriteStart

You don’t have much revenue being generated (if any at all), and you may have a strict or finite source of capital to fund the hiring of new employees. This makes it difficult to find experienced, talented people, restricts the number of people you can hire, and makes the loss of an employee all the more devastating. Uncertainty.

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The Main Reasons Startups Fail

ReadWriteStart

Many business owners launch startups with the intention of running lean—relying on minimal resources to preserve the business for as long as possible. But even the leanest businesses need money to keep running. If you run out of capital prematurely, the business can’t sustain itself—no matter how good the business model is.

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Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named” and the Helsinki Spring

Steve Blank

They’ve stopped hiring the best talent, and startups are not looking so risky compared to large companies. You find early stage employees expecting to work normal hours, to get paid a regular salary, and not asking or expecting equity. Startup incubators, business angels and VCs are starting to emerge.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. It’s all about making your business life easier, doing what works best, getting the best results by tracking what works and always improving.

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How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)…

www.drowningamerican.com

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. I’ve heard people say it’s impossible to hire good developers right now. I want to hire before I have the ability to pay anyone.