David Pierce
Savvy companies form partnerships with complementary businesses to benefit from already established customer relationships and other partners’ sales teams.
While partnerships take on many forms, businesses can make great strides by utilizing certain fundamental relationships. This week we will focus on Referral Partnerships.

Employees everywhere dream of how they will spend their two weeks paid vacation, and it is no secret that everyone loves their paid time off. But when it comes to more paid time off (PTO), is it really merrier? In recent years, there has been an uptick in California-based technology companies like Netflix, Oracle, LinkedIn, and Twitter, offering benefits like unlimited paid time off to their employees. As such, many companies vying for California tech talent feel pressure to offer the same. However, this growing trend of unlimited paid time off may be too good to be true for both employers and employees.

The 2018 Farm Bill was passed on December 20, 2018, and, among other things, removed hemp from the definition of…
