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Does Your Small Business Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

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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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[Review] The $100 Startup

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One should also determine if outsourcing to virtual assistants, subcontracting and hiring employees would truly work. To multiply one’s efforts, one could use a “hub-and-spoke” model of maintaining a home base while using other outposts to diversify oneself. Partnerships such as affiliate programmes may also work. 3 The Long Haul.

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How to Choose a Business Location

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Will you easily be able to find employees? Is your area business friendly? Can you afford to pay your employees at least the minimum wage? He wanted to stay rooted in his community in South Carolina. “My My company, Bandwagon, is a ticket market for college sports, so where better than the South to start a company?

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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why They Love Their Business

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Our target audience for the videos is the connected TV (CTV) market via devices like the Roku and Amazon Fire TV through the HD Carolina channel. Producing episodes require that we go out and have fun experiencing the many wonderful sites and attractions around North and South Carolina. 12 – My Employees.

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Fundraising Now? Remember Morality Impacts Valuation

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Uber is still living down reports of its founder’s past behavior, and California pushed to treat drivers like full-time employees and take on the associated costs. Companies that prompt employees to speak up about ethical lapses tend to be more profitable. Juul’s founder resigned. This may also be true… up to a point.

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

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Small Business. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Loading… Careers.

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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.