7 Easy Cost Cutting Measures to Help Businesses Weather the Recession

How can my company cut costs, but still retain our top talent? We don’t want to cut too deep and not be prepared when the economy starts to come back around. Entrepreneurs have to make some tough decisions this Holiday season, amid the worst recession we’ve probably ever seen. If we cut back too far, [...]

Are You Costing Your Company Money?

In our current economic climate, companies need to be evaluating every single expense, and how they can reduce or eliminate them. Could you be contributing to one of your company’s biggest costs? Sure, employees are any company’s greatest expense, and also their greatest asset. I’m not suggesting that you are wasting your time, thus costing [...]

The Best and Cheapest Perks To Retain The Top Talent

The most powerful asset in any company is the people. For a company like Google, you have the best minds in the world, and then contrast them with General Motors and you see my point. We just chronicled the best Google job perks, and there is a lot small businesses can learn from them. How [...]

The Best, Least Known Perks of Working at Google

So everybody knows Google is the best company on Earth, aside from their “do no evil,” motto, their stock price hovers around $300 (even in this horrible economic climate), and just to rub it in that you don’t work at Google, here are 10 more reasons to hate love the Googlers. Did you know they [...]

John Doerr, The Best VC Ever, Has Some Advice For Startups Trying To Weather The Storm

John Doerr joined Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers in 1980, and since then, has directed venture capital funding to some of the most successful technology companies in the world including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, drugstore.com, Amazon.com, Intuit, and Google, as well as Friendster, Go.com and myCFO.

Top 9 Best Startup Blogs You Should Be Reading

Personally I like to live my life surrounded by the best of everything. The best gadgets, the best project management suites, the best startups, and the best girlfriends. How do I constantly find the best in everything? I read a lot, a lot of the best blogs in the industry as well as plenty of [...]

Always Be Closing: Top 10 Sales & Marketing Blogs

If you’re planning on your startup generating revenue, which you should be doing, you had better have one hell of a sales team. And like many startup entrepreneurs, you probably haven’t spent 10 years in the sales industry and as a result, your sales skills might be a bit lacking. These sales & marketing resources [...]

The Club Entrepreneur Network: Member Relations Done Right.

Too often these days we are haunting by the horror stories of bad customer service: from the AOL customer who can’t seem to cancel their service to wounded vets having to pay back their bonus pay for not fulfilling their obligations. And after all this, it’s really a treat when you come away from an [...]