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Employees Cost Much More Than Their Salaries

Hiring an employee costs more than just the salary; taxes, insurance, benefits and more increase these costs significantly.

Employees Cost Much More Than Their Salaries

Hiring an employee costs more than just the salary; taxes, insurance, benefits and more increase these costs significantly.

High Interest Rates and Your Biz: is it All Bad News?

Higher interest rates are meant to slow the economy. Small businesses should understand the impact of higher rates and what they can do.

Who are you hiring? Contractor vs Employee

Employee vs contractor? Typically, hiring contractors is cheaper, but not always better, and not always legal.

How to Handle Past Due Payments

This blog post covers some steps on how to deal with late client payments, both before and after your business provides its services.

First Steps in Building your "Product"

How do you go about building an MVP? The MVP is a process that iterates, rather than a one-off build. Here's how to start.

Why Every Business Needs an MVP (and what the heck is one, anyhow?)

As a business builder, you want to find the fastest, cheapest way to test product so that you maximize the chance of staying alive.

What Insurance does My Business Need? (Hint: more than you think)

Businesses need many types of insurance, and some are required by the law. Find out here the different types of policies you should consider

Building a Strong Brand Identity

Brand identity is critical at every stage of a business. Not just colors and logos, it incorporates the company purpose, customers, & more.

What kind of business structure should you choose?

Choosing your legal structure is very important, but you can always change it in the future. It just costs money!

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