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4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. Offering flexible pricing (if you have the financial runway to do so) or sharing best practices and tips with traditional competitors will pay dividends in the long run.

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

Rob Go

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? . The third is some sort of dividend structure.

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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. Politicians may like the idea of taxing Credit Unions as a way to balance budgets, but guys, that money is already taxed! It’s taxed coming out of Joe Toolbox’s pay check, and dividends on his account at the Credit Union are taxed again as income.