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Does Your Small Business Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

YoungUpstarts

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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How to Choose a Business Location

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Will you easily be able to find employees? Can you afford to pay your employees at least the minimum wage? Do you qualify for any government economic programs or incentives? He wanted to stay rooted in his community in South Carolina. “My Government-provided demographic data. Is safety very important?

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Small Tech Company Finds Global Markets

The Entrepreneurial Mind

After William Haynes was laid off during the financial crisis, he started Sabai Technology , a company based in Simpsonville, South Carolina, that develops and sells wireless routers and network equipment, with himself as the sole employee. Haynes began working with the U.S. Commercial Service and U.S.

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

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Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. North Carolina. South Carolina. South Dakota. North Carolina.

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Self-Employed or Working Part-Time? Here’s How to Get Affordable Health Insurance

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But if you’re self-employed, a part-time employee, or a small business owner, getting insurance is a difficult and expensive prospect. Despite government efforts to ease the process for these segments of the population, small business owners are still struggling to provide benefits to employees.