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How to Form a Corporation

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Give your company a name. Name your trusted inner circle of company leaders (or just yourself). Consider finding and working with a CPA and a lawyer. Because of its popularity, Delaware is also statistically a popular state for investors to finance businesses. Give your business a name.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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Consumers responded to name and concept well, solves real problem, o Took 4 months to build initial prototype. Later they became big business in Financial services lead-gen. o Their strong skill was online media buying and optimization – they rarely would do CPA deals – mostly buying CPM. He wanted to see all the data himself.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU.

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Beware The Consultant

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There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…).

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” I would think that with a name like Smucker’s it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech.

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How to Become Your Own Boss in 2015 (Webinar Recap)

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As CEO of Quintessence Group, Melinda educates entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies on subjects including small business startup, business development, and social media marketing. I want to tell you that I could not come up with anything as cool as the hedgehog concept, so I named my system after myself, right.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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