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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. Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. Recalibrate and Reposition.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 million to fund operations in their first year of operations. Two-f **g-billion!

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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

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.