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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

Success

Arlan Hamilton, founder and managing partner, says, “ We invest in the very best founders who identify as women, people of color or LGBT in the United States. Unable to find suitable equipment, she decided to design her own smart vending machines, which led to the founding of her fourth venture, PopCom.

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Guarding Your Balance Sheet – Tips for Survival in Today’s Volatile Market

Small Business CEO

While we are not completely out of the woods in terms of the economy, there are several things that small business owners can do to protect their businesses during these challenging times: Manage Collections: Outstanding invoices should be aggressively followed up on round-the-clock. Stay away from regular payments on credit cards.

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

Wordpress is not just a software, but a platform for managing, creating and publishing information on the Internet without having any technical and programming skills. And call me old-fashioned, but I still manage my e-mail in Eudora, which behaves in some ways similarly to TweetDeck. Managing Snail Mail And Paper Checks Online.

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Employee Monitoring: How to (and not to) track employee productivity

BMT Office Administration

Managers and supervisors kept track of employee performance and productivity by directly monitoring them throughout the workday. This fed the need for new ways to track employee activity, as managers could no longer directly monitor their teams in person. Before the pandemic, only 6% of employees were remote workers.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/10

The Small Business Blog

WinWeb – Your Office Online Simply the best way to manage your small business! FPB and Accept Cards LTD help firms save money an merchant services : The FPB is helping small businesses cut adrift by the providers of credit card merchant services or struggling with the cost of processing card payments.

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How to hack your New Year’s resolutions

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

It’s tough to work hard towards “a Ferrari” - even if you’re managing to save 5 figure amounts each month! At least you can party with a credit card! Instead, focus on equipping yourself for your journey. It’s this on-or-off characteristic that destroys most people’s willpower, a few weeks after setting a big goal.

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How To Train Your Brain

Brilliantly Better

It also monitors your energy levels sending stimuli of hunger (that would be the equivalent of re-fueling the planes), it does long-term planning (equivalent of upgrading the equipments and planes) or makes estimations (learning by example, for instance, after a plane collision). Introducing Assess - Decide - Do my life management framework.