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I want to mentor you in the Shopify Build-A-Business Contest 2012

Startup Lessons Learned

It's called the Shopify 2012 Build-A-Business Competition and it launches today. We launched with a bone stock template that Shopify provided instead. The next week we had done tens of thousands of dollars in sales through that template, and not a peep from our customers that it 'looked bad.'

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How To Minimize Startup Missteps

YoungUpstarts

Having taken stock of my own hard-earned lessons, here are 5 tips on how to minimize typical startup missteps: 1. Sales Rules. Don’t let anyone undersell the importance of a strong sales leader and team members. Startups move faster, they fail faster and get up and go faster – often, corporate sales leaders can’t keep up.

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When Does Zynga Become a Value Stock?

Agile VC

Governance/Control – Founder/CEO Mark Pincus has sold a good amount of his stock and owns <20% of shares outstanding, but now essentially has unilateral voting control of the company. So I can appreciate why public stock investors would be leery of Zynga and why the stock price has been punished recently.

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Investment vs. Speculation

Feld Thoughts

I’d read it in 2012 and it had a huge impact on me. ” As someone who has held private company stock in companies for longer than 20 years, been in many situations where there were no exit opportunities until suddenly there was an exit, I understand and am completely comfortable will illiquidity. I reread Enough.:

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 4 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. The company has done $400k in sales in less than two years and had an early test deal with a local supermarket chain that they were massively overperforming on. in 2012 sales and $2M in income.

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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

YoungUpstarts

credit terms), a rise in daily sales outstanding, or DSO, affects the cash flows of local businesses. DSO is the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made. The accounts receivable turnover ratio is your annual net sales divided by your annual accounts receivable. Reduce inventory.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Microsoft will offer its tools in the GitHub marketplace and integrate GitHub’s enterprise services (such mapping developer attribution to LinkedIn or with Azure for cloud services) with its own sales channels. vehicle listed on January 2012 in Crunchbase. Satya strikes again. 4/ “Readjust Your Comps” With GitHub price at $7.5B