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4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

Evaluate and redirect the flow of your marketing dollars — an ad on the subway may have been a good idea three months ago, but it’s not doing you any good now. Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save.

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Q&A: How To Deal With The Trough of Sorrow? And tips for bootstrapping companies

Rob Go

First, the first time products hit the market and it’s clear you don’t have 100% product market fit. Is it possible to take seed money and not go for the Series A, etc, and just earn revenue? If we never want to exit and plan to own and run the company forever, would anyone invest any money at all? .

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Let’s Tax the Boy Scouts

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

One must have at least seed money, or more, to get a start-up going. How would you feel if Kroger’s lobbied the government against farmers markets or food co-ops? Politicians may like the idea of taxing Credit Unions as a way to balance budgets, but guys, that money is already taxed!