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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

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Think about the implications of each to your own business, and the potential impact of getting them done incorrectly, or forgetting to do them entirely: Manage your financials and physical assets. Manage human resources. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business.

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10 Key Traits Of An Ideal Entrepreneur Partner

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If you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, you probably won’t find a partner who will satisfy you. Does not need to be managed. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. You may be too independent to be partner material.

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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

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In today’s Internet world, enterprising entrepreneurs have found that they can find out and do almost anything they need, from incorporating the company to filing patents, without expensive consultants, or the cost to hiring and firing employees. Need expensive resources up front. Your company has outgrown you. You need a prototype.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

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It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. This is often referred to in the creative community as a “ work-for-hire agreement.”.

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10 Startup Shortcuts That Will Be Back To Haunt You

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In almost every state, you can incorporate as an LLC with a minimal effort, and a cost in the hundred dollar range. Be quick to hire and slow to fire. Hiring after one interview is like hopping a red-eye to Vegas to get married after one date. Only hire people who like you or think like you. Do not delegate this task.

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How does equity dilution work for startups?

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Therefore, to avoid dilution to its existing equity holders, all a company has to do is not hire any more employees who get options, or take any more money from investors.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

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” There is no law, other than the word of the manager on duty — who decrees that we could get in with the camera if we paid some ludicrous amount of money to procure a permit on the spot. For example, in an area known for a high crime rate, security guards can be hired and other measures taken.