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7 Startup Costs That You Assume With Outside Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Maintaining your team’s passion and freedom to focus first on innovating for customers are only a couple of the reasons for thinking hard before you seek money from crowdfunding, angel investors, venture capital organizations, or attempt to qualify for a public stock offering. Investors will become the toughest boss you ever had.

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7 Costs To Consider Before Taking Your Startup Public

Startup Professionals Musings

There are real ongoing costs of maintaining a public company. million in annual recurring costs as a result of being public. 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.

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Top Tips for Securing Valuable Stock in Transit

The Startup Magazine

For many businesses, one of the biggest investment areas is stock, materials, inventory, equipment , and the like. No matter what you sell in your venture, if you have valuable stock that you need to move throughout the year, it’s vital to ensure its security so you don’t have extensive insurance and cashflow issues to worry about.

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8 Keys To Maximizing Your New Venture Stock Net Worth

Startup Professionals Musings

When an entrepreneur first incorporates a business, they may find themselves the proud owner of 10 million shares of common stock, commonly called founder’s shares. Make sure the government waits for a stock sale to collect taxes. Spread stock issuance over an earning period. This is called stock dilution control.

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What Stock Brokers Do and How to Engage their Services

The Startup Magazine

For many entrepreneurs and startups, investing in stocks is a good option for building more capital. So knowing more about stocks and trading is critical. A stock, which can also be referred to as a share or equity, is a proof of ownership of a fraction or part of a business entity. Who Is a Stock Broker and What Do They Do?

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How Much Founder Stock Should You Offer Co-Founders?

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors may not be called co-founders, but they always get equity, commensurate with their share of the total costs anticipated, or share of the current valuation. Even with an agreed initial equity split, it’s smart to have founder’s stock actually issued or vested over a period of at least two years, on a month-by-month basis.

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Stock Photos vs. Real Photos: Does It Matter?

ConversionXL

So why the hell do you insist on using stock photos?! You pay, download the stock photo, jury-rig it into your design, and look at your work with a mixed sense of pride and shame. But the client loves it! (“See, looks like stock photos weren’t so bad, were they?”). Alright, look, I get it. Image source ).

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