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Obamacare's Impact on Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment

Small Business Labs

This increase is clearly due to Obamacare, which took effect in 2014. Sam Altman, president of the well known tech accelerator Y-Combinato r, has a blog post with a series of quotes from Y-Combinator backed company founders who might not have been able to start their firms without Obamacare. This means about 3.3   We agree.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Dr. Rajinder Atwal Medical Director, CEO, Founder, Family Physician, M.D., She is the founder, CEO and medical director of Bathurst Walk-in Clinic and Family Practice, which serves marginalized communities. She’s best known for her award-winning blog, which has inspired millions of moms in more than 160 countries.

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Administrative Training Pioneer Celebrates Unlikely 25-Year Anniversary

Office Dynamics

Along the way, the entrepreneur encountered massive and numerous setbacks that threatened the livelihood of the budding business: multiple re-locations, the tragic loss of Dave Burge (Joan’s spouse and VP of Operations) to pancreatic cancer, and Joan’s own medical emergency that nearly took her life and forced the business to its knees in 2014.

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Top Seven Open Enrollment Tips for Small Businesses

Small Business CEO

Don’t ask about their health or their medical history – that’s illegal – but ask them which types of benefits matter most to them: robust preventive care, prescription drugs, chiropractic, maternity care, low co-payments, vision or dental coverage, etc. If their spouse works, they may be able to enroll in his or her plan.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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An 18-year blogging veteran, Ajayi covers all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens on her website Awesomely Luvvie and wrote the instant best-sellers Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016). Luvvie Ajayi. Writer, speaker, podcast host. Elayna Fernandez.

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