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SBA PPP Loans Aren’t for Everyone

VC Adventure

There’s a healthy debate going on right now at many VC firms about whether venture-backed companies should apply to the SBA’s Payroll Protection Program (The Information had a good article on this yesterday (paywall), and Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures put up an excellent post on the subject here ).

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Is It Time to Hire an Employee?

Up and Running

If you own your own business and find that you simply don’t have enough time on your hands to be able to do all the things you need to do, you may be asking yourself should you hire an employee? . If you’ve already got employees, your question will be similar, when is the right time to hire another employee?

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How to Write an Executive Summary

Up and Running

For example, with an existing company, that information might be as simple as adding recent annual sales or number of employees to the basic company information in the first bullet here. It might be a short document, often attached to an email, or simply a summary in an email. Small Business Administration (SBA).

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How to Start a Business in a Month – #30DayChallenge

Up and Running

According to the SBA, 52% of all small businesses are home-based and of the 28 million small businesses in the US, 22 million of those are operated by people who consider themselves self-employed (they have no employees and no additional payroll). Are you going to be hiring employees? You can do it even if you start from home.

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“Why give up that much equity for an amount we could raise other ways?:” SMB Tech Talk from ArtJamz

Hunter Walker

HW: At Homebrew we see lots of startups wanting to serve the small/growing business segment with software tools ranging from ecommerce, to point of sale to employees backoffice and so on. My team keeps bugging me to up our SnapChat game. MC: Oh wow. So many tools. Everything in our studio runs off iPads. Then we tried traditional lending.

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How to Start a Business: A Step-by-Step Complete Guide (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

You should know that about two-thirds of businesses with employees survive 2 years and about half survive only five years. We just emailed the guide to you. Email address. Your business location, facilities, equipment, and what kind of employees you’ll need are in this section. salaries or wages for any employees.

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“Why give up that much equity for an amount we could raise other ways?:” SMB Tech Talk from ArtJamz

Hunter Walker

HW: At Homebrew we see lots of startups wanting to serve the small/growing business segment with software tools ranging from ecommerce, to point of sale to employees backoffice and so on. My team keeps bugging me to up our SnapChat game. MC: Oh wow. So many tools. Everything in our studio runs off iPads. Then we tried traditional lending.