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Working a Side Gig? Here’s How to Prep for Your Second Shift

Success

I bought a coaching-only laptop and have an office in my home for coaching,” says Heidi Lueb, who works full-time as head of finance at Thesis agency while also serving as city counselor for Tigard and moonlighting as a triathlon coach. This article originally appeared in the August 2016 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated.

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5 Traits of a Next-Level Entrepreneur

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Whether you’re starting out on the floor selling a physical product like I did or you’re the CEO of an agency selling talented employees, you need to know how to make a sale. This article was published in March 2016 and has been updated. The ability to sell something is absolutely necessary to running a business at any stage.

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Jamie Fiore Higgins on Workplace Toxicity, Gender Discrimination and Why She Left Wall Street

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Jamie Fiore Higgins worked on Wall Street for nearly 20 years—from 1998 to 2016—and by the end of her career, she’d amassed a small fortune. By 2016, she was making 40 times more than her house cleaner and 10 times more than her doctor. I want my four kids to have their own sense of agency. You are the CEO of your own career.

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A Look at Non-Employer Businesses from the SBA

Small Business Labs

"Non-employer" is the terms used by government agencies to describe businesses that have a business owner, but no traditional (W2) full or part-time employees. The chart below shows that the number of non-employer businesses has been growing about 2% a year of the past 15 years, reaching 24,813,048 in 2016.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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Function of Beauty Photo courtesy of Function of Beauty Who they are: Function of Beauty , a hair care and beauty brand launched in 2016, is best known for offering customized shampoo, conditioner and styling products based on a user’s hair type, styling goals and more. The company raised $150 million in private equity funding in 2020.

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Poor air quality affects chess players, and it might be affecting you too

Workplace Insight

Exposure to such concentrations is common in many cities around the world and is classified as moderate to unhealthy by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Research that I co-authored in 2016 into the effects of short-term indoor and outdoor PM2.5 This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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The Expanding High Skill Gig Economy

Small Business Labs

Key quote: "Three-quarters of law firms with more than 250 lawyers use contract attorneys, says a 2016 report from legal consultancy Altman Weil." " The article chart below also illustrates this growth. .  Crain's The gig economy comes to law  covers the expanding use of contract lawyers.

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