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Pros & Cons Of Non-Compete Agreements

YoungUpstarts

Three of the most valuable assets of businesses are trade secrets, customer relationships and employees. An effective agreement can prevent or impede employees from jumping ship and taking your customers with them – which can impair customer goodwill, the lifeblood of any business. By Mike Freed , attorney at Gunster.

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Testing Your Entrepreneurial IQ

YoungUpstarts

Hire, train, and retain good employees. How secure do you think those former employees of Enron, Lehman Brothers, and WorldCom feel now about having lost their jobs at their former large company? Many business entrepreneurs define success by such measures as sales revenue, profits, number of branch offices and employees, and so on.

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Smells Like Money: The Business of Waste Management

Up and Running

The salesperson who built the relationship with you in the beginning would make the sale, and then pass you off to a retention manager, and it was easy to slip through the cracks or simply become a monthly paycheck. a dumpster rental and waste hauling company in both Orlando and Jacksonville, Fla.