Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

They both reached the top 5 in the App Store and generated enough revenue to profitably build the company to 40 employees with no invested capital. TinyCo’s early games, Tiny Chef and Tap Resort, have been downloaded over 10 million times. Phenomenal Entrepreneur. Suli Ali, TinyCo’s co-founder is just that type of guy.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Another study conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology showed that employees were able to complete tasks 2.5 Turns out, they do. This study published by Fujitsu Siemens Computers discovered three monitors increased productivity up to 35.5%. minutes faster using a multi-monitor setup?—?that

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Business Friendly Regulation  — Texas has no state income tax, meaning more of your salary expense goes directly to your employees and has been consistently ranked as one of the best states for small businesses. Apple’s largest headquarters is in Austin (more employees than Cupertino!) There are still a few spots left.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Dickinson: You’ve got 3 local Public employee unions (patent office professionals, and the national telecommunications industry association-two chapters). Kappos: 95% of our employees are union members. Kappos: We’ve hired Dr. Stewart Tate, a tenured Georgia Tech econ professor. How’s the relationship ?

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

But if you ask me whether I’d rather invest in the entire class of Computer Science graduates from Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, and CMU, or the entire class of MBA graduates from Harvard Business School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Wharton, and Kellogg, I’ll take the CS graduates. Not Teaching the Right Skills.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

But if you ask me whether I’d rather invest in the entire class of Computer Science graduates from Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, and CMU, or the entire class of MBA graduates from Harvard Business School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Wharton, and Kellogg, I’ll take the CS graduates. Not Teaching the Right Skills.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 3, 2021

Some companies stand out via their unique values where they go above and beyond the business requirements in terms of their commitment to climate issues or in taking care of their employees or in giving back to society. They need exceptional people skills as they’ll be interacting with investors/VCs, employees and others.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2014

When the three pulled into a shoe store in Maine after a conference in Boston some years back, they noticed that the sales help was unusually and found that the store had deployed a “secret shopper” program, where employees may be penalized for not being sufficiently aggressive when selling.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Gallup says all these disengaged employees cost the U.S. One key way to turn this around is for employees to look inward before they look outward. The problem is, most dissatisfied employees identify a good job as one that simply pays a little more and is not where they currently work. economy upwards of $370 billion annually.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2020

Statutory workers’ compensation laws are particular to each state, but in general, businesses having employees that are not large enough to self-insure must carry workers’ comp insurance. The Number of Employees You Have Matters. In most states, if you have just one employee you must carry workers’ compensation insurance.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2012

Organizations preoccupied with short-term, bottom line thinking often view their employees as little more than resources to be hired, fired, and manipulated as the need arises. Well-informed employees are more eager and better prepared to participate. Where possible, have employees work together on certain tasks.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2017

When you provide employees what they need in order to reach and exceed their potential, the result will be high performance levels and loyalty. Educated at Georgia Tech, MIT, Oxford and the University of Sussex, he currently serves as president and CEO of Boston-based Zonopact Inc. Supporting your team pays off.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2019

In sharp contrast, look at the language from their homepage before their website redesign: Their clients didn’t use terms such as: “Our resources, products and proven strategies”; “attain the most of”; “…our employees have been expertly applying their wealth of experience to our clients”; “a diverse set of client experiences…”.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

For young entrepreneurs creating a new corporate culture from the ground up (as well as for already-established organizations), providing employees with opportunities to form micro communities outside of the workplace may help combat loneliness inside the office. To start: 1. Define the Vision. .

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Board Effect

MAY 30, 2023

Often, nonprofits have an executive director that leads teams of employees and volunteers to get the work done. Nonprofit organizations are organized groups of people that form for the purpose of providing goods and services state and federal governments cannot do on their own.

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David Teten

APRIL 28, 2016

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital , the HBS Alumni Angels of New York , and Alpha Venture Partners , are co-sponsoring their 6th New York City Demo Day, next Tuesday, May 3, 2016, from 10 to 12 AM. Flashpoint is a startup accelerator at Georgia Tech. Yet these integral groups lack visibility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You really want to see how your company treats its employees, treats its customers, treats the environment, taking a longer-term view." He went to the same school I did, Georgia Tech, and studied electrical engineering. As he explains, it also has "a diversified bottom line where it's not just about near-term profits.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 30, 2015

attain the most of”. “…our employees have been expertly applying their wealth of experience to our clients”. “a Now look for example at Georgia Pacific Corporation. Now look in sharp contrast at the language they in their homepage before their website redesign: Image courtesy of webarchive.org. You get my point.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

I was mistreated in public multiple times by employees. states (North Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas), and have launched a Pop-Up Code Initiative in order to grow coding talent in areas we don’t already have a location at. Now, I’m helping small businesses access capital within 24-48 hours. I felt there was no solution.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 27, 2018

But founder and CEO Jeff Hilimire is just as concerned about building a pipeline of diverse employees as he is about those traditional growth metrics.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 15, 2021

In the wake of Georgia passing its new voting regulations, a many of America’s large company CEOs are taking some kind of vocal stance (Coca Cola) or even action (Major League Baseball) on the matter. This question has been on my mind for years. Do voting rights directly impact a company’s business?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 14, 2017

You must be able to rally others around your cause — employees, customers, investors, partners, and even you own family. This is classic de-risking from the lean startup methodology and the syllabi of the I-Corps programs like Venture Lab at Georgia Tech. You must be a tireless and effective promoter.

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Transformify

JANUARY 7, 2020

Nampora is based in Washington, DC area (where Neville is from), but he’s currently working from Tbilisi, Georgia. I find that remote workers are more loyal than in-office employees. Our guest today is Neville Mehra who runs Nampora , an all-remote digital marketing and strategy firm. How does it feel to work and travel?

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Up and Running

MARCH 15, 2016

Finding a manufacturer was straight-forward once I decided that producing it locally was important to me,” says Georgia Mae. Step 7: Hiring employees. If you plan on setting up a brick-and-mortar retail location, you’ll need to hire employees for your store. How to Hire Your First Employee.

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Reid Hoffman

APRIL 14, 2021

In Georgia, you can now be thrown in jail, for up to a year, for offering a bottle of water to a would-be voter who’s been standing in line for hours to exercise their Constitutionally-protected right to participate in our democracy. .” In fact, this often occurs when users publish posts with a political aspect on LinkedIn.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 22, 2020

We had ~200 employees that went to the new company, and five years later roughly 90% of those employees were no longer with the company. These are massive, billion dollar companies that have acquired smaller, independent agencies and either merged them together or kept their brand separate.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. Remember that you should evaluate both internal (your employees) and external (everyone else) perceptions of your brand. This isn’t an issue you can afford to ignore.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is ranked the #2 state for black founders to launch a company, only behind Georgia. End of Year Update Opinion | I'm Leaving Seattle for Texas So My Employees Can Be Free Covid-19, Remote Work Make Austin a Magnet for New Jobs Coronavirus Moving Study Shows More Than 15.9 There is room for everyone in Texas.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Many of the other staff in the applied program were full-time employees hired to work solely on these military programs. Other universities doing classified ELINT and Electronic Warfare work attended including University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology and Cornell.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., Comcast Corp., entrepreneurship.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

In the midst of managing employees, running two businesses, handling suppliers, discussing beer styles with their brewer, and taking on all the other challenges of running a brewery and restaurant, the Sheehans took some time to share their secrets to success. Stephen: Employee relations. What mistakes had you learned from?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2017

At the time of this writing I have just attended a Georgia Tech Foundation board meeting in Atlanta and am always there surrounded by achievers who exhibit similar energy. You also win employees with energy. Even the emeritus members like myself pay attention and ask the important questions. That’s not a bad model to follow.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

And the typical three problem areas for a lot of small businesses are either they’re too dependent on a single employee, to dependent on a single supplier, or as you said in your example, to dependent on a single customer. If a customer wants a deal, if an employee wants a vacation, they have to go into the hub.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 6, 2012

Use Arial or Georgia. They only serve as a negative social proof, and nobody but your employees will share just another business on social media. Mention which students you’re able to help. Improve readability: light gray and light blue text on white is very difficult to read. The headline font is also not reader-friendly.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Gratitude Outgoing Chief Operating Officer Georgia Thomsen Georgia Thomsen will be moving on from the Chief Operating Officer position that she has held for the past four years. Georgia joined as our 8th employee and now our team is almost 10 times that size?—?mostly mostly all people who she hired! Vice President?—?Defense

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 8, 2013

Virginia has hams and Georgia has, among other things, boiled peanuts and their famous peaches. Employees cut back on dining out at Christmastime and often dart out of the office on their lunch break to do holiday shopping. This video should be 5-10 minutes, made by company employees. What food is your state famous for?

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Virginia has hams and Georgia has, among other things, boiled peanuts and their famous peaches. Employees cut back on dining out at Christmastime and often dart out of the office on their lunch break to do holiday shopping. This video should be 5-10 minutes, made by company employees. It is a win all around!!! Write Right Away.

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