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7 Costs To Consider Before Taking Your Startup Public

Startup Professionals Musings

They are still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999. If you want to give stock options, or have already been giving them, the employees will love the liquidity of their options, and the thought of selling shares for a profit. Analysts want escalating profits.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

In addition to the one in Beijing, China has set up 53 additional industrial parks and in them are ~60,000 companies with 8 million employees. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. (This was the area I visited in this trip to China.) Seed Funding (Innofund).

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

In addition to the one in Beijing, China has set up 53 additional industrial parks and in them are ~60,000 companies with 8 million employees. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. (This was the area I visited in this trip to China.) Seed Funding (Innofund).

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Apply Hospitality-Driven Thinking to Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

If you can’t anticipate and pivot to match these changes, to the extent of obsoleting your own offerings, competitors will step in and customers will leave, never to return. Google places such a premium of employee happiness, with perks and benefits, that it is regularly recognized as one of the best places to work in America.

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5 Ways Small Business Owners Plan Intelligently For Retirement

YoungUpstarts

Teachers, police officers, firefighters and other government employees generally receive a pension. The corporate world can offer benefit plans or matching contributions. But entrepreneurs can’t automatically rely on any of those features; instead they have to put saving/investing plans in place for themselves and their employees.

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7 Reasons To Reconsider A Planned IPO Exit Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

According to Investor's Business Daily , even though IPOs in 2018 through July were up nearly 39 percent from last year, the total of 115 companies so far is still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999. Most startup founders voluntarily exit or are pushed out, and the fun is gone.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

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