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From a 401(k) plan to pet insurance for Fido, in today’s tight labor market, workers expect far more than just health insurance from their employers. For small businesses, that’s been a problem. There are more small companies and startups than ever before yet, because of their size, these firms have traditionally been at a disadvantage when

Hanno Renner, co-founder and CEO of Personio. Personio Hanno Renner was 25 when he set up Personio, a software start-up looking to take the myriads of boring admin tasks and piles of paper out of human resources. Before he became a tech entrepreneur, Renner was a student at Germany’s Technical University of Munich, where he

The latest division in Hong Kong isn’t driven by posters and protests — it’s driven by consumers’ wallets as people vote with their money. The city’s economy shrank in the second and third quarter of 2019, marking a technical recession and the first time in a decade its economy weakened for two consecutive quarters. The

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks during a Gospel Music Association ceremony in Nashville. He plans to sign an adoption bill that the LGBTQ community and many businesses say is discriminatory. Terry Wyatt | Getty Images Businesses are expressing disappointment in response to Gov. Bill Lee’s plans to sign an anti-LGBTQ adoption bill into law. The

Working in harmony with competent people you like and trust means that ideas and plans go further, faster, and more effectively. It’s the difference between feeling supported and overwhelmed. Between success and failure. Between doing the work you were designed to do and chasing your tail putting out fires. If your business requires a team

Below are two questions I’ve received recently as a customer service consultant and customer experience turnaround expert.  Let me know yours.  Q: I’m having trouble even finding people to work here who don’t have tattoos or piercings or both. Not to mention applicants with have hair colors not found in nature, or what very creative stylings of the facial

Generation Z is here. Are they ready for the world? Getty If you look around, you might notice how teenagers have changed. As the parent of a Generation Z child, I can attest to the fact that much of the research regarding this upcoming generation is correct.  Generation Z is an incredible group of kids

Although an essential stage in the launch of a small business like a restaurant, creating a business … [+] plan for a startup should be different. In a startup, tomorrow’s plan is going to depend on the execution of today’s hypotheses. Data and customer insights will dictate what you need to do next. Getty A

Businesspeople shaking hands in an office Getty We’re all more than what’s on our resume. But while a lot of leaders pay lip service to that idea, relatively few walk the walk when hiring. It’s understandable: Before you trust people to help shape your company’s future, you want to learn all you can about them.

Getty 2020 has come and will ask a lot from leaders across the globe. Facing significant economic, political and climate challenges, leaders will have to prove themselves this year. First and foremost this means they will have to show effective leadership by turning plans, ideas and words into actions. Effective leadership means getting things done

Pros and cons of starting a service based or product based company. Getty As an entrepreneur there are two routes you can take: either create a service-based business where you trade your skill or knowledge for money or create a product-based business where you sell products to people. If the successful business is offering a

The laws of gravity work the same way in finance as they do in physics – what goes up must come down. It’s only a question of timing. Look at Sears. It took about 130 years for the company to go from startup-broke to its peak to bankrupt-broke. But it happened. Trends change. All it

Jetta Productions Inc Entrepreneurs hoping to pocket some tax deductions for 2019 shouldn’t forget a new 20% break. The qualified business income or QBI deduction made its debut in 2018, a feature of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new write-off allows owners of “pass-through” entities, including S-corporations and partnerships, to deduct up to

For the 2019 fiscal year, the US Department of Commerce was allocated nearly $200 million to provide disaster assistance in the Eastern United States. The funds were to be used primarily to help Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands revive their economies after the devastation caused by Hurricanes’ Irma and Maria in the Fall of

Under pressure from the White House, the Food and Drug Administration gave premium cigar-makers and importers a win last week, indicating it may spare the industry from costly regulation set to go into effect this spring. The premium cigar industry is facing a May deadline that requires all new tobacco products to obtain regulatory clearance

Chobani took the $7 billion yogurt aisle and disrupted it with a new product, greek yogurt. AP Images for Chobani Would be entrepreneurs can take years trying to think of ideas or even problems that they could solve to potentially launch a startup. Most new startups though are based on iterations of an existing product

The most valuable asset in an early-stage startup is the team behind it. For entrepreneurs who are … [+] looking to build a team or make the first hire, here are your options and my recommendations for which and when those options are best for you. Getty The most valuable asset in an early-stage startup

Hundreds of Well-Known Restaurants Hit by Card-Stealing Malware Landry’s kicked off the New Year by disclosing that its payment systems had been infected by credit-card-stealing malware for most of 2019. However, the malware could have stolen the card data only if waitstaff mistakenly ran customer credit cards through restaurant food-and-drink order-placement systems instead of credit-card

Photo by Charles on Unsplash Photo by Charles on Unsplash Many of us enter a new year with a sense of desire for change. We want things to feel different, and we set resolutions, intentions, or goals in order to make it happen. That’s all well and good, but no change will truly take hold

Entrepreneurs think differently than everyone else. 123rf.com “Still crazy after all these years.” That’s the title of a 1975 song and album by the legendary Paul Simon. Hearing that song – for the zillionth time – makes me think about what makes small business owners different. It’s the crazy way they look at the world.

The new Chiba shoes featuring Yulex from Guatemala. Sanuk Decker’s owned Sanuk, the California shoe brand most known for its easy going slide ons, has launched a shoe made with Yulex—a natural rubber coming from FSC-certified forests in Guatemala. First launched by Patagonia in wetsuits, the same material is relevant in shoes. The Chiba Journey

Exactly what is a Green Rabbit? Ask Gregory Balestrieri, CEO of the Braintree, Massachusetts-based company, and Joe Melville, chief growth officer, and the cousins will tell you it’s the solution to your time-sensitive problems shipping perishable items, and stuff that melts, like chocolate. Green Rabbit headquarters in Braintree, Massachusetts. Green Rabbit Green Rabbit evolved in

Getty With a new decade just around the corner, you might find yourself even more inclined than usual to set New Year’s resolutions. However, resolutions on their own aren’t enough. Studies have shown that approximately 80% of people don’t actually stick to their resolutions past the month of February, so how do the select 20%

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Getty As the calendar changes from one year to the next, it’s an incredibly common time to set resolutions. However, these resolutions tend to be focused on personal development rather than professional. Setting professional, career focused resolutions alongside the personal ones will help you achieve success

Diego Bejaran Gerke, 29, is in the business of bringing remote workers together—at locations around the planet. His company WiFi tribe, arranges for groups of gig workers, entrepreneurs and remote workers to live together in group housing in a place such as Bolivia, Bali or Oman—where he was living when we spoke recently—for a month at

In February 2006, a student at the University of California-Berkeley sued Target because its website was inaccessible to the blind. The lawsuit put the issue of online accessibility for disabled people on the map, says Sean Bradley, founder of AudioEye. Dealer.com uses AudioEye to make sure its website is accessible to people with disabilities. AudioEye

Getty There’s an old joke that goes something like this: a Buddhist monk orders a hot dog from a vendor and gives him a ten dollar bill, but receives no change. When asked, the vendor responds, “But, change comes from within.” Most of the articles I’ve written on the freelance revolution are business focused, or focused

Anton Kogan in 2017 when he won $20,000 in a pitch competition for his business, Emma’s Premium … [+] Services, through Rutgers Business School. Rutgers Business School As packages full of toys crisscross the globe this holiday season, FedEx curriers are toting hundreds of fully cooked $20 turkeys to New York State’s 50 correctional facilities.

Roxanne Assoulin men’s jewelry Roxanne Assoulin Roxanne Assoulin is a maven of reinvention. The New York-based jewelry designer has traversed the fashion industry for four decades, evolving her business strategies with the ever-changing retail climate.  She started her career in the 1970s, when she created hair accessories and leather bracelets, segueing into semi-precious materials in

Nreal countersues Magic Leap. On June 18, Magic Leap sued its Chinese competitor, Nreal, and its founder, former Magic Leap engineer Chi Xu, for using Magic Leap’s trade secrets. This week, Chi filed a countersuit with his side of the story, arguing that the Nreal is smartphone-based, while the Magic Leap has its own small