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Forget Ping Pong and Snacks: How Buffer Digs Deeper With These 4 Startup Perks

Forget Ping Pong and Snacks: How Buffer Digs Deeper With These 4 Startup Perks

Working at a startup is tons of work and having fun is vital. But offering more thoughtful perks can help further your mission and give employees something to smile about.
Finding the Right Hire for Your Company

Finding the Right Hire for Your Company

How do you make sure new hires will mesh well with your other employees and with your company's culture?
Blue, Green, Gold? How to Manage Employees Based on their “Color” Temperaments

Blue, Green, Gold? How to Manage Employees Based on their “Color” Temperaments

Authors Susan Geary and Anne Bulstrode provide a simple way for entrepreneurs to decipher employees’ temperaments -- and how to handle them.
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How to Hire Superstar Employees

How to Hire Superstar Employees

Making sure you hire the best employees -- and the right employees -- for your business isn't a matter of luck. Here are six steps you should take to guarantee you'll land superstar talent.
Why Over-Optimism Can Crush Your Company

Why Over-Optimism Can Crush Your Company

While painting your startup in the best light can generate attention from the media and investors. Just be careful to not to start also believing the hype.
Finding Employees on a Startup Budget

Finding Employees on a Startup Budget (Video)

Attracting and hiring talented employees without the funds to invest in big salaries can be a challenge for companies just starting out. Here's what's working for startups now.
Quirky Startup Perks: ‘A Mating Call’ for Tech Talent?

Quirky Startup Perks: ‘A Mating Call’ for Tech Talent?

Between bacon-wrapped cash, winery outings and a year's supply of PBR, startups are rolling out all the stops for top talent.
4 Tips for Overcoming the Top Challenge Young Entrepreneurs Face

4 Tips for Overcoming the Top Challenge Young Entrepreneurs Face

If you thought finding funding was hard, here's one pain point that's making young entrepreneurs at large cringe.
Young Boss? 5 Tips for Hiring Older Workers

Young Boss? 5 Tips for Hiring Older Workers

Chuck Cohn launched Varsity Tutors at age 21, yet he still managed to successfully employ workers of all stripes. Here are his top hiring tips for young founders.
4 Tips to Avoid Co-Founder Conflict

4 Tips to Avoid Co-Founder Conflict

Student entrepreneur Eric Muli on why it’s important to be honest with your business partners and to quickly get over disagreements.
Whatever You Do, Don’t Not Delegate: 8 Tips for Cultivating Keen Employees

Whatever You Do, Don’t Not Delegate: 8 Tips for Cultivating Keen Employees

Delegating is the second-hardest thing for an entrepreneur to do. The hardest is not delegating.
Mark Peter Davis on the Problem With the VC Industry

Mark Peter Davis on the Problem With the VC Industry

Mark Peter Davis’ journey from venture capitalist back to entrepreneur has given him a unique perspective on the new challenges of start-up fundraising.
JJ Ramberg: Focus on the ‘Why’ to Hook Customers, Investors

JJ Ramberg: Focus on the ‘Why’ to Hook Customers, Investors

Sure, you need to tell people "what" you do. But they'll be far more interested in "why" you do it, says TV host and entrepreneur JJ Ramberg.
Not a Superhero Entrepreneur? You’ll Still Need a Sidekick

Not a Superhero Entrepreneur? You’ll Still Need a Sidekick

Business is nothing like comic books or the movies, but having sidekick when the going gets tough can’t hurt. This Halloween, consider finding the Robin to your Batman.
4 Ways to Manage the Perils of ‘Friend-ployees’

4 Ways to Manage the Perils of ‘Friend-ployees’

How to maintain your authority when you become close with your employees.
How to Handle Problem Employees — And Fire Them if Needed

How to Handle Problem Employees — And Fire Them if Needed

No one envy's an entrepreneur when it's time to let problem employees go. Here's how to make the process as smooth as possible.
What the Founder of Travel Site Trippy Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship

What the Founder of Travel Site Trippy Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship

Serial entrepreneur J.R. Johnson launched his first company 12 years ago at age 28. Here's what he wishes he knew then.
How to Talk to ‘Nerds’ and Why You Should

How to Talk to ‘Nerds’ and Why You Should

For non-technical entrepreneurs, bringing a developer on board is only half the battle. You also need to be able to communicate. Here’s how to get it right.
7 Steps to Hiring Your First Employee

7 Steps to Hiring Your First Employee

Small business experts Adam and Matthew Toren answer readers' top questions about entrepreneurship.
5 Ways to Win the Hearts of Employees

5 Ways to Win the Hearts of Employees

Small business experts Adam and Matthew Toren answer readers' top questions about entrepreneurship.
The Health-Care Law’s Mandate: A Tax on Young Americans?

The Health-Care Law’s Mandate: A Tax on Young Americans?

Minutes after the Supreme Court handed down its decision to uphold the health-care law, critics lambasted it for amounting to a massive new tax -- which would mostly affect young people.
3 Keys for Nurturing a Performance Driven Culture

3 Keys for Nurturing a Performance Driven Culture

Running a small business requires an owner and operator to fulfill so many roles, sometimes all of them. Though it may not be top-of mind it is excessively important to have a happy and healthy work environment for yourself and …
How to Manage Gender Discrimination in the Workplace

How to Manage Gender Discrimination in the Workplace

Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg recently stated at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland: "We reward men for being leaders, for being assertive, for taking risks, for being competitive; we teach women as young as four to lay back, be communal. …
Be the Captain of Your Company's Ship: Changing Directions When Your Team is Sinking

Be the Captain of Your Company's Ship: Changing Directions When Your Team is Sinking

Many businesses today are suffering from a terminal illness, and they likely don't even know they're sick. Because these companies are functioning well enough to get by, they don't believe they need the type of expertise required to diagnose a …
How Committed are You to Your Business?

How Committed are You to Your Business?

The best intentions for a successful business do not necessarily guarantee a business that is actually successful.  The responsibilities of starting a business don't simply end once the business has been started.  The next important step is keeping that business …
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