Posts Tagged ‘Family’
Should a Small Business Offer Paid Parental Leave
Despite passing the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in 1993, which allows employees to take 12 weeks of unpaid leave from their work before returning to their position, the U.S. is the only developed nation not to guarantee their working mothers salary during the time they take off from work after a childbirth.
Read More Lessons Learned From My First Business
I, like many entrepreneurs, have run more than one successful business. Now, looking back, I realize there were several lessons that I learned with my first business that I carried through to my current one.
Read More A Family Business? Every Business Should Be
While plenty of empirical evidence can be found to delineate both advantages and disadvantages to working with family, we’re here today to focus on the key benefits of obtaining that all important “buy-in” from your significant other.
Read More Realistic Options for Financing Your Startup
One of the first challenges new entrepreneurs face is finding a way to finance their businesses. You have a great business idea but little money to implement it; and, like every entrepreneur before you, you try to scrounge enough money to launch your startup—your dream.
Read More Should Businesses Be Open on Thanksgiving?
If you’re a business owner, should you be open for business on Thanksgiving? After all, it seems that everyone else is doing it.
Read More New Facebook Page? Here’s How to Get People to Like You
You just set up your Facebook Page: great! The next step is to actually connect with people, which means you’ll have to get them to “like” your Page. When people like your Page you’ll have an audience you can engage with on Facebook.
Read More How to Balance a Family and a Startup
If you are starting a business venture, pull out the cape and the superhero costume, because there are ways that you can successfully start up a business and spend quality time with your family.
Read More Do You Have That Entrepreneurial DNA?
My immediate family members were entrepreneurs from as far back as I can trace. So it seemed perfectly natural that my brother and I find our separate callings as entrepreneurs from the very start.
Read More Maternity Leave: How to Best Handle the Employee’s Absence
Maternity leave, which is now often referred to as family or parental leave, is the period of time that an employee takes off after giving birth to or adopting a baby.
Read More The Problem with Hiring Relatives
Hiring relatives of employees can be a dangerous policy for so many reasons. Early in my academic career, the small department where I taught hired a husband and wife as teachers.
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