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4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

The news is full of businesses adjusting to the demands of the outbreak — and the devastating fates of those who have been unsuccessful. Are you paying money for SaaS services that are no longer relevant or can be taken on by employees? Now is the time for laser focus: to concentrate all available assets on your money makers.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 They hired a biz dev team to work on deals where their product could be embedded in other people’s products as a way to increase customer demand. They got a bigger office space so their employees would feel comfortable and they could improve employee retention.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

70–80% of the costs of most startups are employee costs so what you’re really talking about when a company is unprofitable is that they are growing their staff ahead of their revenue. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 If there was strong market demand for their product then this investment might pay off handsomely.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. I know one company demanding something like 15K just to use his product in my portal.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. Source VentureBeat ]. -