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[INTERVIEW] Brandon Seigel, President, Wellness Works Management Partners, Madison, Wisconsin

YoungUpstarts

Now, with his business Wellness Works Management Partners, Brandon manages multiple private practices and consults with entrepreneurs and health practitioners worldwide. Describe your professional background and how it led you to create Wellness Works Management Partners. What does Wellness Works Management Partners do?

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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. How should a growth company manage their budget? So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

At times this means startups operate at speeds so fast they appear to be a blur to government agencies. It’s not that these companies are smarter than Defense Department employees, but they operate with different philosophies, different product development methodologies, and with different constraints.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I did not consider myself unique from the standpoint of the way my business life operated, and therefore, believed and soon witnessed many people having the same challenges. It's a fairly outmoded method of operation that dates back to the industrial revolution. Thanks to Colin Merrill, Wisconsin Junk Cars ! #26-

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An Absolutely 100% Non-Boring Article About Business Insurance

Up and Running

Even though your business can’t operate, your insurance makes sure that you still have money to make payroll, taxes, and loan payments. But a drought in Wisconsin affects your main supplier of cranberries, and suddenly you’re a saucier with no sauce. Say you’re the world’s best cranberry sauce maker.

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Starting Startups - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

  But because seed firms operate in an earlier phase, they need to offer different kinds of advice.    But because seed firms operate in an earlier phase, they need to offer different kinds of advice.  Managing Company Growth.   Like VCs, one of the advantages of seed firms is the advice they offer. 

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Hiring Executives: If You’ve Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good?

Ben's Blog

The biggest difference between being a great functional manager and being a great general manager—and particularly a great CEO—is that as a general manager, you must hire and manage people who are far more competent at their jobs than you would be at their jobs. Does she know how to hire sales managers?