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How To Maximize A Limited Labor Budget With Gig Work

YoungUpstarts

The key to this step is to identify where you could benefit from skills at a much higher level than you can buy (full-time hires) and should instead rent (offer a gig). Gig hiring allows you to no longer be tied to justifying full-time salary and benefits for a specialized job that you need for only 100 hours per year.

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Entrepreneur Fills a Market Void by Building Female-Focused Co-Working Spaces

Hearpreneur

I found myself pushed into entrepreneurship after being laid off from a Marketing Director position with a San Diego based high tech company in 2003. I was turned on to the concept of coworking in 2010, when I hosted a networking event, for an organization I was leading, at San Diego’s first coworking space, the Hive Haus.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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5 Tips for Private Practice Optometrists to Grow Profits This Year

Mike Michalowicz

His practice, Complete Family Vision Care Optometry, is in San Diego, California. Action Steps: Review hiring processes and office processes for efficiency. Start by looking at your community and existing clientele to determine needs that are currently not being met. Learn more here: [link].

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2022

Hearpreneur

The fact that we have been able to overcome the pandemic blues, improve our market outreach, make some well-timed hires and increase our baseline sales (over 30%) is something I am most proud of in 2022. 8- Finding a way to give back to my community. 11- Hiring 2 assistants for my business. 12- The team I hired in 2022.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”. And they made an early investment in Yahoo.“ “….a

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO. Seattle, WA. Chicago, IL.