YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

of small businesses say they will hire in the next six months as compared to 38.1% who say they do not plan to hire. The poll also found that economic uncertainty (38.2%), followed by access to capital (26.0%), and government regulations and taxes (24.2%) are the top three issues small businesses face today (see chart below).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process. “The

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2018

Most companies are shifting to in-house hiring, but sometimes using the services of a staffing agency saves time and cost. Temporary, temporary-to-hire and permanent placement services are provided each week to over 100,000 people. They provide temp-to-hire , temp, direct hire, and contract work solutions. Robert Half.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process. “The

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process. “The

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees. Like other RBI firms, Decathlon does not require warrants, governance involvement, or the types of financial covenants that are often associated with other venture debt type solutions.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

And listen up Washington - 83 percent of them plan to hire in the coming year. And Government Just Gets in the Way. Two of three of them say that business conditions are better than they were last year, and three out of four expect things to get even better in the next 12 months. To your success, Jay Turo read more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

And others are from unusual folks we don't normally think of as entrepreneurs, from corporate managers to government agencies. Consider the total amount of funding for doomed projects that comes from VC’s, large company M&A departments, government grants, and private equity firms.

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Venture Chronicles

OCTOBER 31, 2010

The big change between then and now is that the Federal government in it’s infinite wisdom has created an encyclopedia of processes under the rubric of transparency and fairness that ultimately ends up being neither transparent nor fair.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

It's easy to say that companies, universities and the government should be doing more to find a cure, but that ignores years of overlooking the importance of the work of those studying infectious disease, and in many cases, the lack of sophisticated tooling that they urgently need. That's how they can hire people. Progress was made.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

VCs tend to gain most of their returns through carried interest- a percentage received as compensation from the profits of a hedge fund or private equity. As business grows, the ever-growing laundry list of government regulations they are expected to follow grows. Driving sponsorships for your startup is a numbers game.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

John Warrillow: They sure are, and by the way, that’s a typical fishing letter used by either a private equity group or a business broker, as flattering as it can be, it probably doesn’t mean a whole lot. And they typically, in the United States at least, get an SBA Loan, Small Business Administration Loan.

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