Caron Beesley

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, protecting your startup or small businesses means having a plan.
To keep your company healthy during the coronavirus outbreak and positioned well for success when it’s over, take advantage of these seven contingency and business planning tips.
1. Put health and safety first
If you’re a solopreneur or sole proprietor, prioritize your health first. Limit your travel and maximize home office communication and collaboration tools.
If you have employees, keep them...

A limited liability company (LLC) is a popular business entity choice for business owners. (A business entity is also known as a business structure.) While an LLC is low on state-required recordkeeping formalities, when forming an LLC, business owners should take time to make sure they have a good LLC operating agreement— as this is the key LLC document that controls how the entity is structured and operates. It also controls the relationship among the members in multi-member LLCs.
In this ar...

When selecting a business name, it’s important to decide upon a name that’s easy to remember, descriptive of the business, and attention drawing.
But what if you find out that another business in a different state has the same or similar name? Should you restart the process of finding a name?
This article explores your options in this scenario.
Can I use a business name if it exists in another state?
All may not be lost. You can often use the same business name in your own state or another st...

How do you know if your business is falling behind on digital transformation? Here are five warning signs, plus best practices to help you hit the reset button.

Boris Sofman, Engineering Director and Head of Trucking & Perception at Waymo, joined Zonoozy to explain the email analogy.

Small businesses are a driving force of the economy. They make up 44% of America’s economic activities and create two-thirds of new jobs.
Choosing to start and run a small business is a significant and rewarding undertaking. Yet, as the BizFilings Small Business Survey 2020 shows, current and future business owners face many challenges.
The survey of 600 current and future business owners, conducted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, sheds light on the motivations, fears, and concerns that these...

Driven by digital transformation, virtual health visits are an increasingly popular alternative to traditional in-clinic care. Today, almost 80% of hospitals offer some form of telehealth service.
With growing awareness among patients, providers, and health insurance companies — combined with the need to address COVID-19 social distancing concerns and protect vulnerable populations — we will likely see demand for telehealth programs continue to increase in 2020 and beyond.
Telehealth is not o...

During the Covid-19 outbreak, many government agencies shifted to a remote workforce. This put unprecedented pressure on government cybersecurity professionals to secure work from home environments from opportunistic hackers. Meanwhile, increased traffic to critical online government services, including education and health and human services, has created an urgent need for cybersecurity and IT professionals to mitigate the risk associated with the exponential increase in demand.

This present...

Earlier this year our CEO, Amy Wright, wrote about how the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is helping the federal government solve its toughest application service delivery challenges by scaling Agile within their organizations. The benefits of SAFe include greater alignment around customer needs, transparency across teams, faster value-based product delivery, motivated teams, and enhanced customer satisfaction.
But adopting SAFe can be tricky. Common challenges include resistance to change, ex...

Article for Let's Talk Self-Driving in partnership with Waymo, MADD, and SADD about a virtual curriculum, Ride Into a Safer Future: A Self-Driving Curriculum, gives teenagers tools to identify road risks and learn how fully self-driving technology could present a safety solution.

Digital technology is reshaping how we work, and many companies are pursuing large-scale change efforts to capture the benefits and stay ahead of the competition. On average 3.7% of an enterprise’s revenue is spent on digital transformation initiatives, according to the Digital Transformation (DX) Executive Sentiment Survey from IDC. As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, that percentage is expected to grow as more organizations lean on digital transformation investments to address the challenges ...

For educators, students, and parents, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning has been profound. Thousands of schools across the U.S. closed their doors this spring and made the shift to distance learning. It’s a model many, quite frankly, weren’t prepared for. And as the fall start of school looms while the pandemic continues, educators, administrators, school staff, and school district boards continue to debate the right path forward. The ability of educational institutions to enabl...