Hiring & HR Hacks for Growing Businesses

If you’re reading this you’ve founded a business or are thinking about it. Congratulations! By doing so you’ve joined an honorable group of people that fuels our nation’s economy: the small business community. Small businesses (defined as having 500 or fewer employees) represent 99.7% of our nation’s employers and contribute a great deal of our nation’s “external innovation.”

In addition to representing the majority of employers and innovation contributions, small businesses drive about 50% of the non-farming gross domestic product (GDP), or roughly $5.9 trillion every year.

But while many small businesses become wildly successful or turn into our favorite local haunts, millions of others fail.