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LLC Costs and Fees You Need to Know as a Small Business Owner

Up and Running

But forming and maintaining an LLC comes with costs. While initial filing fees may be affordable, there are additional costs and recurring expenses, like taxes, that you’ll want to consider. How much you’ll pay depends on the state where you form your LLC and whether you hire a professional to help you. LLC formation costs.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Instead of offering better products or better service at lower prices, rent seekers hire lawyers and lobbyists to influence politicians and regulators to pass laws, write regulations and collect taxes that block competition. for high-volume lower cost cars and by continuing to innovate. How do Rent Seekers win? In contrast, U.S.

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Navigating Seasonality While Keeping Cashflow Healthy

YoungUpstarts

As we tell our customers, if you’re hiring us to transform your property, then you should trust us to take care of it forever.” To even out cash flow, he recently decided to stage some summer home expos on the New Jersey shore, aimed at vacation home owners. Taking advantage of football season’s downtime.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Instead of offering better products or better service at lower prices, rent seekers hire lawyers and lobbyists to influence politicians and regulators to pass laws, write regulations and collect taxes that block competition. for high-volume lower cost cars and by continuing to innovate. How do Rent Seekers win? In contrast, U.S.

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Bending Bootstrapping To The Needs Of Your Business

YoungUpstarts

When you have very little money to work with, you have to figure out how to get projects done yourself as cheaply as possible instead of hiring someone else who knows what they are doing. In opening Yo Yoga!, we did the renovations to the space ourselves. Like people always say about kids, it’s different when they’re your own.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

The video game and Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality industry actively hire for people with design, screenwriting, and other visual arts skills. Some AI companies hire people with comedy-writing and script writing experience. NYU just widened the door for more people to benefit from and contribute to their network, at nominal cost.

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Should You Offer Equity Compensation to Employees?

Up and Running

If equity compensation is on your mind before you start hiring, make sure you’re good at hiring excellent candidates, especially if you’ll be offering restricted stock rather than stock options. Think carefully before you hire someone new and offer them stock from the outset. See Also: How to Hire Your First Employee.

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