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Ways for Startups to Limit Liability in Company Car Crashes

The Startup Magazine

Still, the right commercial auto insurance policy provides confidence to focus on core operations, not liability risk. Hire Qualified Drivers Just as hiring skilled and productive employees is vital for a startup, bringing on board qualified drivers with clean driving records and appropriate licenses reduces road risks substantially.

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Managing Your Startup Board?—?A Short Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

Managing Your Startup Board?—?A My talk was about “ managing your startup board ” and the full deck is on that SlideShare link and embedded below. If you want to have a 30-minute debate on whether your company should spend $12,000 on a coffee machine for employees then ask your board and I promise every member will have an opinion.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the Lean Startup, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of Global Operations along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Innovation at GE was on a roll.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

For a well-funded seed company I have controversially recommended hiring a great office manager that doubles as an administrative assistant. And it turns out that employee reviews matter. Didn’t have employees sign non-solicitation agreements? Didn’t have employees sign non-solicitation agreements?

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14 Things Your Employees Are Dying To Hear From You

YoungUpstarts

by Todd Patkin, author of “ Finding Happiness “ What were your last 10 or 15 employee conversations like? And chances are, unless they were delivered in a, shall we say, forceful tone of voice, your employees don’t mind hearing pertinent instructions and questions. So why does their morale seem to be, well, wilting?

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How to Configure Your Startup Team

Both Sides of the Table

But not anal if one founder who shares equity graciously with early employees who are treated as “co-founders” My idea startup team is heaving on tech personnel but also has strong product management. Don’t hire “relationship management” sales people too early. Have them manage their area.

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25 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on the Future of Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3-