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The Accomplishments of Entrepreneur, Justin Halladay

The Startup Magazine

Justin Halladay is an inspirational entrepreneur from New Jersey. Early on, Halladay worked for small organizations with less than 500 employees and larger multinational enterprises with tens of thousands of employees. Halladay even worked for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter for six years in the World Trade Center.

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Hiring a Freelancer? Here’s What That Means for Your Taxes

Up and Running

And with the rise in remote work during the pandemic, a shift in how businesses think about their employees and hiring practices, and the growing number of people pursuing business ventures online, it will likely keep growing. One of the most important things to consider is whether you’re working with an employee or an independent contractor.

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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

The company, Citizen, uses a combination of human employees and AI technology to directly pull information from police scanners and other sources to alert nearby citizens of incidents or potential threats. Geospiza also helps companies in weather-sensitive industries make smarter decisions about risk.

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Critical Workplace Skills For New Graduates

YoungUpstarts

Many employees are expected to work on teams. In order to successfully navigate today’s highly collaborative workplace, employees should have a deeper understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses. Many successful employees do not need others to motivate them. Self-motivation. Goal setting abilities.

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Should You Offer Equity Compensation to Employees?

Up and Running

If you’re thinking about extending equity to an employee or a vendor (as in the example above), you should know that the topic is multi-faceted. If however you are giving a “normal employee” an incentive stock option plan (more on that later), that’s entirely different. Finding great employees first. What is equity compensation?

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Start Up and Stay Up – How Small Businesses Survive & Thrive

The Startup Magazine

Since then it has grown to serve the tri-state New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware areas, but I still consider it a small business and my employees, more like a family. He recruited some of his friends from prior real estate positions and many of the employees to this day are friends and family of the original core group.

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Announcing our summer intern class

David Teten

He was an early employee of a software start-up born out of the MIT Media Lab, Frictionless Commerce (acquired by SAP). Having never lived in New York, he very much looks forward to working and playing in the city. Jason is a high-school student, currently attending the Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, New Jersey.