Questions tagged [business]
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Should I share with a new service provider a bill from its competitor?
I understand the new service provider is probably looking to make sure they match the services and value my company is currently getting from their competitor, but should I share an old bill with them ...
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My boss wants to hire another employee, but I don't think we need one
My boss wants to hire another person in our team but I’m of the opinion we don’t need another person.
We are currently a team of 3, my boss, me and a colleague under my guidance.
The company we work ...
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Preventing theft by employees in our supermarket [closed]
My question is regarding a supermarket business which is run by my dad.
Recently, I saw him upset and asked the reason, and he told me that there was big loss in the market inventory in just 5 month, ...
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My business partner does not want to participate on the business activities, how should I proceed?
I have started a business together with another partner as an equal in terms of earning and effort. There's no written contract, just a gentlemen's agreement. We are an IT software company, so we don'...
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Leaving small business job
I have been working for this small business for little over 2 years now. We had only 5 employees, two left last year and another one gave 2 weeks notice. She was a senior-level employee (over 15 years ...
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How can I convince my boss that software development needs to be done in teamwork?
I'm a software developer in a 30 person company specialized in financial technology. I started to work here early this year. Over time I heard that the company tripled their employees in the last 3 ...
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Asking for the budget is considered rude?
I'm a web developer and I'm about to start my web design agency with a couple of friends, I've asked for advice on how to get started and also looked online on how to start a business.
I've seen this ...
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How to Recommend Radical Product Change to an Organization
Some background: I’m about 8 years into my career with my current company, a large multinational based in the US. I’ve been working with a group of about 150 people for most of my time here. Our scope ...
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Building a new tech department in the company
In my current company, we are undergoing an engineering team restructuration because we are growing from 50ish to 100ish engineers only this year.
The current structure does not work anymore so we ...
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New job boss talks too much detail and loses me
For the last few years I've been self employed as BI contractor using a particular tool. That market has dried up and I've taken a perm role an information Architect.
I knew this role was a bit of a ...
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How much equity do I deserve as the sole developer?
I apologize for the length of the post. The last two paragraphs are a more brief summary.
I began working with this company a year ago with the assignment of handling general office tasks. Very ...
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Single Customer Business
I work as a web developer for a marketing agency (roughly 20 staff), recently I have become increasingly concerned that we only service a single customer.
I have mentioned the risk to my line manager ...
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How can I tell my boss that I can't attend a company team-building trip?
I have recently started my first job out of university. In my first week, I had to travel to London (HQ) for 3 days for training. The annual Christmas week, also in London, is currently being planned. ...
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How to pay for business expenses without any business income (just starting out) [closed]
I recently opened an LLC and want to do business, but in order to get started I need to get some equipment first (i.e. camera) as well as pay for legal consulting, website setup & hosting, and ...
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Reaching out to Marketing for experience when I'm an Engineer
I'm currently an engineer and am thinking about starting up my own business on the side (still an idea but in the process of creating the MVP). My business would bring zero competition to my current ...
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