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Lot to learn from taking a year off and working on my business. that would be equally as valuable as what i could learn in a year at school. >> it is time now to answer some of your business questions. michael and yanic are with us once again. the first question is about new employees. >> what are effective training strategies for new employees to get them into the mix of the company and make them as productive as possible in the beginning? >> well, for both of you, this is particularly interesting in the context of this show, because once you get somebody in, you want the train them in their ...

Not just one question. >> and do you believe that silicon valley is great with a tech company because of the resources or no? >> well, exactly like michael said. it is conditional and depends what you want to do and who the marketplace is and why you are starting the business, but as far as i know, there's been successful businesses in all states of the union here. i think that we will continue to have it that way. >> and what you could do then is to list down what you need and can you get it in the city or the town that you are going in. >> and i like michael's idea about lifestyle, what is i...

This company will become. we asked everyone if they'd come back again and every single person told us -- >> as soon as possible. >> tough mudder! you heard me. what are you about. now, we are probably all not going to be bringing harvard business school cases to work or running through fire, but there are definitely things that we should all be doing to make sure we have a strong company culture. let's turn to this week's board of directors. yawnic silber is head of the business ventures and we are also joined by author of "build yourself solid," michael salder. this is so much fun, and one,...

Spoken to each other. >> and you can bring them into the decision-making process. i send an e-mail to the team, what is working and what needs to improve? they feel comfortable saying, michael, you are totally messing this thing up, you are hard to work with here and whatever it is. if you don't feel like you can do that with the people you work for, it is not a good place to work. >> good for you, because that is something about your personality, too. okay. going to the next question, we are service providers for a canine service to find pests. and we need to increase branding and success, an...

But they started the company with $20,000 of their own money. $70 million in revenue next year. >> i am so jealous. >> it is a real success story. thank you, yanic and michael for helping us with this. more and more of your customers are using their smartphones to get information about things, and so here are five ways to make sure that your website is ready for mobile visitors courtesy of mashable.com. number five, keep it simple. users visiting your mobile site are looking for information and service fast. keep the navigation to a minimum and focus on providing the top things that customer...