Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

The net may be less cost reduction than you thought. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Companies in Asia and Eastern Europe can still provide direct cost reductions of up to 75%. Product or services.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. So your Q1 results will be $180,000 less profitable than if you hadn’t hired them. Hiring more people isn’t always the right answer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

Savvy investors tell me that startup founders who claim to have never failed are either lying or have never tried anything innovative. Proper hiring of people with a natural curiosity, open-mindedness, and ability to see the big picture is the way to create and enhance the right mind-set. Net result and reward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

The net may be less cost reduction than you thought. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Companies in Asia and Eastern Europe can still provide direct cost reductions of up to 75%. Product or services.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 225

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. Hiring is a problem because when you become successful, people want your talent. Quality control?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2022

To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to take a look at the classic book about them a while back, called “ Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain ,” by Richard L. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

support vs. professional services) with their own managers can emerge quickly in the life of a startup and these roles will usually come before a full-time CCO, unless one of the company’s founders happens to be playing that role. For example, you’ll know it’s time to hire a CCO when you realize you’ve never measured customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2014

At a small company, if you''re constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation. When you''re considering a job at a small company, look for colleagues and founders who don''t tolerate CYA. Never cover your a$$. There''s no place for CYA in a small company.

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Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

Solving our most pressing social issues, providing a safety net of love and care, this is the immeasurably critical role of our social sector organizations. It does mean that when we’re designing new programs, or hiring people to help us redesign processes, that we ask a lot of questions. Luckily that’s what boards do.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 4, 2023

Tips for Talking With Your Investors About Bridges and Extensions (Charles Hudson) – Charles covers a bunch of the questions VCs and founders should consider, and hopefully align on, when raising an incremental insider financing. ” As Charles also notes, this is exacerbated by the rapid increase in venture fund size.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

“Personal Branding” The term is fingernails on a chalkboard-level cringe for many of the best founders—mostly because it feels most of the people who spend time building their personal brand don’t actually have much there there behind it. Unfortunately, this has real consequences for founders. So how can founders differentiate?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders who have the whole package or as much of it as possible. Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture. We weren’t ready to hire an associate yet so I offered him a summer internship. Not my problem.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

If you and your co-founder(s) are friends, why not work on your home instead? The best way to avoid this is by covering all your legal bases by hiring an attorney. Hire a professional. Be careful when choosing which tasks you have to outsource or hire someone for, though. Get an executive suite or coworking space.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2013

At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation. When you're considering a job at a small company, look for colleagues and founders who don't tolerate CYA. Never cover your a$$. There's no place for CYA in a small company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Frothy startup valuations.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

But you can overwhelm negative sentiment with positive content from others, creating a net positive effect. The audience size identified is encouragingly large, and the frequently used phrases and words (brick mortar, retail, founder) align directly with our target audience. Take SparkToro’s Co-founder, Rand Fishkin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

Savvy investors tell me that startup founders who claim to have never failed are either lying or have never tried anything innovative. Proper hiring of people with a natural curiosity, open-mindedness, and ability to see the big picture is the way to create and enhance the right mind-set. Net result and reward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2011

At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead creep rather than value creation. When you're considering a job at a small company, look for colleagues and founders who don't tolerate CYA. Never cover your a$$. There's no place for CYA in a small company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

The net may be less cost reduction than you thought. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Companies in Asia and Eastern Europe can still provide direct cost reductions of up to 75%. Product or services.

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Gust

OCTOBER 5, 2014

At a small company, if you’re constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation. When you’re considering a job at a small company, look for colleagues and founders who don’t tolerate CYA. The axiom applies to all matters, tiny to large.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Metrics like Return on Net Assets, Return on Capital and Internal Rate of Return are the guiding stars of the board and CEO. Unfortunately as we’ve learned from recent experience, using Return on Net Assets and IRR as proxies for efficiency and execution won’t save a company when their industry encounters creative disruption.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2020

Our Source Digital team is plentiful with industry experience, including one of our co-founders – and my sister – Laura Frecon. Don’t have rigid expectations about what type of experience you want in the candidates you look to hire. When you cast a wide net, you are more likely to get what you are looking for.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2016

By Bryan Miles, CEO and co-founder, Miles Advisory Group, Inc. But entrepreneurs face other concerns that compete with this growth focus, including hiring, maintaining current revenue sources and distinguishing themselves from the competition. Bryan Miles is CEO & co-founder of Miles Advisory Group, Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead creep rather than value creation. When you're considering a job at a small company, look for colleagues and founders who don't tolerate CYA. Overall, the time to do the people filtering and fit analysis is before the hire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2019

To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to take a look at the classic book about them a while back, called “ Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain ,” by Richard L. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

They netted more on that deal than Fordham has in it's whole endowment (but still, go Rams!). Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder. Most small companies will never be big enough to show up at your job fair--and their hiring is mostly opportunistic anyway. Support the student club ecosystem.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 27, 2023

6- Passion for well-being of pets Photo Credit: Mathew Coulton First off, as the founder of “Gentle Dog Trainers,” I'm incredibly passionate about the well-being of our furry friends. Just like a lifebuoy in the open sea, legal help can be a lifesaver, and the more people we can throw that lifeline to, the better.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 19, 2018

SOPA, PIPA, and the FCC’s vote against Net Neutrality are specific instances of politicians being at odds with public opinion, where technology enthusiasts feel the constant struggle to stem the tide of harmful legislation, and many may be left wondering? This radically oversimplified approach to a complex challenge doesn’t work.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

Many founders stay on for several years to earn the bulk of their compensation, and the M&A advisor can provide guidance in this regard. An advisor knows how to structure a deal so that the net proceeds are higher, and can help you minimize taxes and other expenses. Hiring a Mergers and Acquisitions advisor.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 6, 2017

While freelancing isn’t the goal for most founders, it’s a safety net that allows for big risks with small stress[2]. Your freelancing safety net relieves the temptation of exploitative early funding deals. [1] Another is that your next startup becomes easier.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

This Net Promoter System question represents an engagement metric that all subscription businesses should track. She is the founder of Peninsula Strategies LLC , a consulting firm based in Menlo Park, CA, that helps companies excel in the Membership Economy. .” A value problem is very different from a budget problem.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

They sold 2 years later for $16 million In the financial crisis of 2008 we had a company that had jointly hired lawyers to consider a bankruptcy and also pursued (and achieved!) Almost every successful company is a mixture of very hard work by the founders mixed with a pinch of luck, good fortune and perseverance.

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The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

This is a guest post by Chris Hollindale, co-founder and CTO of Hasty. It could be anything: over the last few days I’ve had ideas for new product features, potential advertising campaigns, strategies for hiring the right type of people to fit into our team, and ways of creating the company culture we want to build.

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