When naming your company, consider the limitations the name may put on your options as a company, and as an entrepreneur and individual.
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Such a decision might not only make you more miserable, it could also put the financial health of your company at risk as well.
Whether you run a neighborhood bar or a multinational corporation, now would be great time to think through how your company can put its best foot forward when the Great Blizzard, Wildfire or Temblor of 2013 strikes.
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Briefly, when you take distribution from your 401(k) you can rollover everything but the company stock (your company) to an IRA, and then put the company stock in a taxable account.
Find someone at the company who can put your application into the hands of a hiring manager.
Beyond insurance, the best way to prevent this in most states is to put your property into a limited liability company.
And, if your company matches your 401(k) contributions, put at least enough into the plan to take advantage of that free money.
Show commitment and be sure that you have your own money invested in the idea, "You've got to be willing to put your own life on the line for this company before you can expect anyone else to invest in it, " Crown says.
If your company is in the red, and mass layoffs abound, you should probably put off your request for more money until business begins to stabilizes.
You put your heart and soul into your job to help your company get ahead and to help your career, only to lose money doing it.
You'd never be allowed to put all your money into faraway gold mines or a "hot" company or two.
"We allow private actors--your company, me, my family--to put pollution into the atmosphere in unlimited amounts at zero cost, " he said.
When you agree to receive notices electronically from your credit card company or health plan, you often put an end to dozens more pieces of mail.
If you had your doubts if Google was a media company, this should put them to rest: YouTube Paid Subscriptions.
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Put an end-date on your current position on LinkedIn, and drop the company name from your blogger profile.
You need to turn the wheels while maintaining your sanity, preserving office morale and showing the boss that you put the company ahead of personal squabbles.
If your sales organization has not stepped up to the high velocity sales model, perhaps it is time to put a foot in the water and test the performance of this concept within your company.
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If you do decide to fund the development of your company by adding money from external investors, you need to put a lot of time into thinking about the type of investors you want and how much money you think the business will ultimately require to get to profitability.
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All you need to do is put a note in your diary to review them every six months and watch how your company improves.
Many company Web sites have "Build Your Own" sections, where shoppers can put together a vehicle and see how much it might cost.
Why not put together a panel of customers for exploratory research, testing products concepts and spreading the word about your company, brand and products across the social Web?
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"Nothing's been proven, but if somebody has your book and knows every trade, it would not be difficult to bet against that book and put the company into a tremendous liquidity squeeze, " says John Tucker, who is representing Kivisto.
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