article thumbnail

5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

We’d never hired anyone. Within a few months, my wife went from teaching a few classes via Skype part time, to teaching full time, to hiring a pair of teachers to help her keep up with demand. You might feel like a bit of a wet blanket when you start pushing people to hire a lawyer and write up contracts or an operating agreement.

Startup 119
article thumbnail

What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. What does a social enterprise look like?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Can A Non-resident Of California Set Up An LLC?

The Startup Magazine

Is the key hiring a Registered Agent? This is exactly how a Montana LLC, with one of its managing members being a California resident and therefore the LLC’s Registered Agent, managed to conduct business and operate lawfully in California. . In this article read more about how non-residents of California can set up an LLC.

LLC 90
article thumbnail

How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

ConversionXL

Or Monroe, Montana? But you’re also mistaken: There is no Monroe, Montana. The result of these vulnerabilities is that we hire the wrong candidates, listen to the wrong people, and fail to differentiate our businesses. How false expertise leads us to hire the wrong people. What about Acadia National Park?

article thumbnail

Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees. The average monthly operating expenses is $70,335. The average cash balance is $191,164. 30% have been operated by females, 70% have been operated by males.

Revenue 60
article thumbnail

How Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) Can Help Your Business

Up and Running

But in some states like Wyoming and Montana, the population is spread out over a larger geographic area, so they offer more online counseling and training because it’s easier for most people to access. They can also help startups think through things like how to grow and when to hire their first employee.

article thumbnail

37 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Inspirational Business Quote

Hearpreneur

Sometimes the client hires you, sometimes they don’t. In 2009, during a hunting trip in Montana, I realized there wasn’t a “go-to” brand on the Internet to research hunts and outfitters and connect with other people. But when you hire with the same attitude and end game you get so much more from individuals and for the company.