Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). I had taken the job of VP of Marketing in a company emerging from bankruptcy. Why Do You Work Here?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2017

Bankruptcy is relatively common, especially post-2009, but recovering from it can require professional help. With cloud technology, your employees can have instant access to everything they need — and work from wherever it’s convenient. It’s also a means of testing out a potential permanent hire. Get on the SEO bandwagon.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Just like launching a new product, hiring a partner requires protecting your business against potential risk and failure. Background checks of potential employees routinely show both minor and more concerning issues for employers. For example, according to ADP’s 2009 hiring index , 46 percent of résumés reviewed showed discrepancies.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

What Happens After an Employee is Injured in the Workplace? Note that worker’s compensation insurance doesn’t just support your employees; it also provides liability coverage if the employee decides to sue. This could result in fines, bankruptcy, or jail time. Image Source: Unsplash. Use a Top-Down Approach.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 29, 2021

If you have never hired a lawyer before, the idea of it can sound a little intimidating. Here are 3 situations in which you should hire a corporate lawyer. If You Have Encountered an Issue, Report or Conflict with a Current or Former Employee. If You Need to Liquidate Your Business or Declare Bankruptcy. Final Thoughts.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Hiring & Firing the CEO. Psychologist as the CEO of Employees – Everybody wants to work somewhere “that is not political&# but that place only exists in a mythical utopian island. Makes sure there is always enough cash in the bank.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

When you hear the question “What type of background checks should my small business run on employees?” Quite simply, a small business requires a lot less organization than a big one, so guidelines for things like employee background checks are often a bit looser and more relaxed. Past Employment Checks. Professional Licenses.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2024

They depend on guidance from their staff and trusted advisors – most of whom have been hired and promoted for their expertise in delivering incremental improvements in existing systems. This group is most comfortable sticking with existing process and procedures and hires and promotes people who execute the status quo.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

For a startup, sustained revenue is of paramount importance: a paucity of sales in one month could lead to bankruptcy the next. Hiring a good lawyer also may mean saying no to your “Cousin Vinnie.” To prevent disaster, it’s essential for startups to lock down a big client as soon as possible.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2014

Or a key vendor declares bankruptcy. Refusing to hire people who are smarter than you. Of course I shouldn’t hire people who are smarter than me , you might think. The best advice I got when I became the CEO of RME was to hire people who were better and smarter than I was. Or a partner defects with your top client.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. Poorly calculated LTVs can become BVs (bankruptcy values).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

For example, one of the first home grocery delivery companies, Webvan, was so enamored with early traction in Silicon Valley, it raised and spent nearly a billion dollars and went public, before filing for bankruptcy three years later. Suddenly you face new overhead, with hiring, office space, benefits, and new advertising campaigns.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

5 Ways To Help Employees You’re About To Lay Off | Fast Company – crowdspring.co/159KAQE. How to Motivate Employees in Less Than 5 Minutes – crowdspring.co/1CzhuZY. How to Show Employees Love (Even if it Makes Them Feel Awkward) – crowdspring.co/1CzgUvd. TV-Streaming Firm Aereo Files for Bankruptcy | WSJ – crowdspring.co/1Fh64Ie.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Most traditional, bricks-and-mortar businesses have substantial, often enormous hard assets, such as raw materials and supplies, work-in-process, inventory, manufacturing equipment, real estate and more, as well as armies of employees. This is often referred to in the creative community as a “ work-for-hire agreement.”.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2020

Failing to resolve the issues you face can damage your business reputation and may result in property destruction and bankruptcy. Finding and keeping quality employees – Hiring skilled staff is essential to provide excellent services to tenants and maintain your properties at livable conditions.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Revenue dropped and bankruptcy loomed as a real possibility. So, hire an accountant to handle the financials. Hire competent people who you will trust in their jobs – and then trust them. I had to make drastic cuts, including letting go beloved employees. I had to figure out how to turn my company around. Commitment.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

The predator is the loss of revenue, or worse, bankruptcy. The question begs: how can a company hire a marketing leader whilst mitigating the cost risk of hiring a marketing leader? One way this can manifest itself is in having a highly-paid role doing tasks that a lower-paid employee can also easily do.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Joe’s “don’t worry about it” mentality, is rooted in his blue-collar upbringing where his father often provided services for free, and once nearly led him to bankruptcy. We never hired a service even though my dad was in the service business, and so I was always trying to save people money on things.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. Since both sets of my parents went through bankruptcy while I was a child, learning about how to manage money became almost an obsession of mine.

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2013

I’ve worked for different entrepreneurs, various startups and larger businesses as both an employee and partner. There were times of high profitability, but also times when we were close to bankruptcy. We learned how to win and lose customers, how to manage and mismanage projects, and how to hire and fire developers and designers.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Your startup is going well and as your business expands, you hear the dreaded words from someone on your board: “You need to hire some senior people. However, bringing in the right kind of experience at the right time can mean the difference between bankruptcy and glory. Why hire a senior person? Kanye West, New God Flow.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2018

While some CEOs start the company with just a couple of employees, others start with a few hundred. This way, if your company faces debt, bankruptcy or is held liable in a court of law (if an employee suffers a work accident , for example), you as an individual will not have to suffer the legal repercussions.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2016

No matter how skilled you are at multitasking, pretty soon your balance will falter and you’ll fall face-first into the thing that every businessperson dreads – bankruptcy. But your balancing act doesn’t have to be more precarious than a trapeze act on a cliff-face.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2017

According to the Council for Disability Awareness , medical expenses accounted for 62% of all personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. Your ability to earn a living would be greatly diminished, which usually means going into debt. in 2007 and contributed to half of all home foreclose filings in 2006.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Managing their own locations and employees, and the opportunity to grow their own business, gives them the incentive to succeed. Franchising will bring you more dedicated, motivated people than you would from hiring internal staff. Investing in company outlets means more inventory, real estate, and hiring more employees.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2020

One of the areas where startups tend to overspend is in hiring staff that their development cycle does not yet call for. Recent history is littered with failed startups that went from inhabiting posh, palatial offices to bankruptcy proceedings seemingly overnight. It’s easy to understand why. They’re not a fixed asset.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check. As the founding CEO, every hire and every decision that the company ever made happened under my direction. What if I was misleading everyone from investors to employees?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Plus, you can give multiple employees access so everyone doesn’t have to deal with signing in to each platform individually. Kin : If you need to simplify all of the employee paperwork and files, then check out Kin. Kin helps you onboard new hires, centralizes all of their files, and tracks time off and working hours.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 30, 2019

And its usually a number of things: to have an impact on the world, to provide a better life for my wife and daughters, to give our employees a platform to be their best, to find personal fulfillment, etc. I always suggest that, when you begin to hire, look for people who can think and function as entrepreneurs themselves.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Lets Fix Everything that Was Broken At SuperMac we were excited to finally get out of the crummy tiltup we had occupied since the company emerged from bankruptcy. We need our own cafeteria so employees don’t have to leave the building. We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Your startup is going well and as your business expands, you hear the dreaded words from someone on your board: “You need to hire some senior people. However, bringing in the right kind of experience at the right time can mean the difference between bankruptcy and glory. Why hire a senior person? Is now the time?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. EquityZen , SharesPost , and ZenPrivEx , help employees and investors liquidate their positions in late-stage companies.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 10, 2016

This success led me down a path where for several years this was my life, taking troubled companies, on the brink of bankruptcy, and turning them around to profitability. When I came to Intelicare Direct they had about 60 employees working out of a converted auto-body shop. Take an employee out to lunch. What does that mean?

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Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2021

With the current changes in the market today, businesses are more focused on the ways to meet the demands of their customers, irrespective of the new way of working of their remote employees and hybrid workforce. The never-ending cycle of lockdowns and reopenings makes it impossible to forecast revenue streams and retain full-time employees.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

They don’t need to be a savant in one niche skill; they need to be competent at a wide range of skills and then hire specialists to do what they can’t. Clients needed transparency and accountability from their agency, employees craved trust and flexibility. As I watched, I quickly realized there was a better way to run a firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank. Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A. Been there.

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