David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similarly, when Flexible VC structures are based off of the founder’s own compensation (often via salary or dividends), investors are specifically tying their returns to the financial success of the founder. The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Example VC.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2014

Whenever you spend money on the card, you get a 7-percent point dividend at the end of the year. If an additional $5,000 spent was eligible for double points that would mean 10,000 points would be eligible for the 7-percent dividend for a total of another 700 points.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2020

It would look like this: [(Current value – Initial value)/Initial value] x 100 = Rate of Return. The value and purchasing power of money is impacted by inflation. When determining the real rate of return, you must take into consideration how your money’s value will be affected by inflation over time.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Understanding them gets you one step closer to knowing how to deliver better value to your customers and defining your niche. In the dog-eat-dog world of contract manufacturing, paying close attention to competitors can pay dividends. Chief among those factors will be the product’s primary competitors.

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Experience alone clearly is important, but its value is limited. They’re designing key abstractions that will pay dividends through the life of the project. Their study measured “effort” (time to complete), lines of code, and defect count for ten programming assignments: [.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The “product” value is difficult to quantify, the costs are nebulous, and entrepreneurs have to clone themselves to scale the business. Clients need to see you as a trusted value add, rather than just a service provider. Flexible business models, including value-based pricing, bundling, and custom proposals are the places to begin.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The RISE Fund, which takes a quantitative approach to social impact, aligns well with our core values and social impact mission. PE generally thinks of their role as a three-stage journey “Buying > Value Creation > Value Realization.” Since the relationship started, it’s really lived up to the promise.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

Or, rather than constantly seeking validation from others, trust your instincts and make decisions based on your own values and vision. I was convinced that valuing my people would pay dividends in retaining the good ones. Thanks to Dom Bavaro, Dom Bavaro ! #12-

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Even if you are no longer a student, or not enrolled now, it can pay big dividends to get to know people there and explore the possibilities, including the following: Potential to get technical work done as a class project. Attract a co-founder and key team members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Everyone has their own view of the price-value equation, they listen only to other customers like them, and they have an instant world-wide view of the alternatives. Customers skip over your ads, and easily find the real best deals through “best value” sites on the Internet. Category expert – show me that you know what I need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The best alternative is always to get the business back on track, and sell it at a reasonable value, or do a normal closedown with full payout to vendors and investors. Even if you can’t get the value now that you deserve, the combined ideas and assets could pay big dividends later, and save you the emotional and financial stigmas of failure.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2020

In their minds, most leaders value their employees. The investment you make in these relationships upfront will pay dividends in the weeks, months and years ahead. Not only do we want to be recognized for what we do, we want to be appreciated for who we are. Mix in a strong dose of social distancing and isolation? Make it personal.

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Leadership Software Review Dividend Employee 147

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Investors expect a good value proposition in every pitch. Certainly there are many other red flags that will discourage investors, but every entrepreneur will find that it pays big dividends to be proactive on the key items outlined here. Non-credible funding request or unreasonable valuation.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2018

The profit collected from the efficient working of the organization is distributed among the members in the form of the dividends. The value of the currencies are regulated in comparison to the US dollar. The market condition is certain and it’s next to impossible to make accurate prediction of the upcoming future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

It pays big dividends to network with peers and others if you want to succeed in business. Seek common interests and shared values beyond business. Chemistry and shared values lead to trust and lasting relationships, rather than shallow friendships. Everyone loves initiative. Keep all network interactions upbeat and positive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2022

Businesses run by ethical people create value and prosperity based on voluntary exchange, while reducing poverty. In fact, there is plenty of evidence that these arrangements, such as with Whole Foods , are easy to implement, and pay big productivity, loyalty, as well as financial dividends.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Establish a value-based model that you can share with government agencies, insurance agencies, and other stakeholders to demonstrate value. Determine how to dispose of surplus funds-dividend declaration, retained profits, etc. Identify all sources of funds-shares, loans, bonds, etc.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review Government 66

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 16, 2020

Expectations of higher capital gains are anticipated as property values progress over time. Shareholders also get dividends through some stocks. First is common stock where investment is done in a public company, though the dividends are unsure sometimes, second is preferred stockholders have a higher claim to fixed dividends.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In Eilleen’s analysis of companies valued at $1B or more she teases out a number of insights that buck some of the conventional wisdom and well worn narratives of entrepreneurship. A Cambrian explosion of innovation in hardware, robotics, space, as a peace dividend in the race for smartphone supremacy. So, why does this matter?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

I recommend the elevator pitch -approach instead, which you probably learned in dealing with busy investors, where the person calling the meeting is asked to summarize the purpose, value and recommended solution in the first minute or two. You can be a problem solver and build a product alone, but you can’t build a successful business alone.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

On their homepage , ‘value’ and ‘control’ are positioned back to back: . Value-centered experiences move the needle (if your audience demands them). Your mission statement should speak directly to the values your end-users care about and define how you will deliver on your promises. Note the use of “You” in both headers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Don’t underestimate your own value as customers arrive, establishing a line of credit, and borrowing against inventory. Competitors see the value of your idea, and the good ones move fast. It pays big dividends to keep up with the latest strategies in your marketplace that have failed, as well as succeeded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Even if you are no longer a student, or not enrolled now, it can pay big dividends to get to know people there and explore the possibilities, including the following: Potential to get technical work done as a class project. Attract a co-founder and key team members.

Arizona 310

Arizona Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Dividend 310

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We think there’s room and value for all. I think it’s going pay dividends for us. So I think there’s value there for our country. I know there’s value to us already. The work we’re doing with what we call SpecOT is trying to get others involved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2020

In the interim, there is no market for the shares, and no dividends or interest. New money from professional investors sees no value in old money, so the equity of early investors is “crammed down” and often lost in the scale-up surge. Make sure the money is discretionary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Investors expect a good value proposition in every pitch. Certainly there are many other red flags that will discourage investors, but every entrepreneur will find that it pays big dividends to be proactive on the key items outlined here. Non-credible funding request or unreasonable valuation.

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Due Diligence Intellectual Property Preferred Stock Seed Stage 308

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   Most often, investors who are interested in a company raise this issue first to measure the company’s response to a market value offer.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Offer a Lot of Value for Free. In order to do this effectively though, you need to make sure your podcast is providing a significant amount of value to the customer — free of charge. The more value you provide, the more likely they are to both continue listening and to recommend the podcast to others. Post Consistently.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 16, 2023

By funneling money out of several low value, low return assets, a financial expert will redirect them into a few selected high-value, high return assets. Growth is observed when an investment portfolio gains more potential market value and liquidity than before, irrespective of the number of investments the portfolio contains.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2011

It adds real value to a business. Value to its people, value to its customers, and value to its bottom line. There’s a gap between the value an organization places on being creative and its ability to tap into its creative resources to fully use the talents of its creative people. Being creative is the new black.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Dividend and dividend yield. The use of these points varies quite a bit in terms of value. For example, a plane ticket that costs $250, and requires 25,000 point miles has a conversion value of one cent ($0.01) per point. Mutual Fund. ETF (exchange traded fund). Expense Ratio for funds. Price-to-Earnings ratio.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

To protect against such an event, almost every professional investor includes a clause in the investment documents which allow the investor to “put” the stock back to the company after five years, requiring the company to pay back the investment plus dividends accrued during the term of the investment.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 6, 2022

and there are those accumulated dividends. Further, preferred stockholders can be recipient of accrued dividends in a sale or liquidation. A rather common but small dividend rate of six percent becomes a massive amount after seven years, almost half again the value of the original investment.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

Pre-money is the value of the company before the money goes in and post-money is after the money goes in. In a recent episode, they talked with my old pal, Seth Godin, where he explained the virtues and values in his book called The Song of Significance, A new manifesto for teams, listen to business Made Simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2019

The best alternative is always to get the business back on track, and sell it at a reasonable value, or do a normal closedown with full payout to vendors and investors. Even if you can’t get the value now that you deserve, the combined ideas and assets could pay big dividends later, and save you the emotional and financial stigmas of failure.

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Bankruptcy Startup Dividend Salary 242

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

My recommendation is that you must start today preparing yourself for the future, by thinking of your current employer as a customer, and focusing on the following specifics: Quantify your value to your employer, compared to alternatives. These costs include travel, training, supplies, office space, bookkeeping, and many others.

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Artificial Inteligence Dividend Reputation Social Media 240

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

You can take out a student loan with a private lender to pay for your graduate degree and this will pay dividends in the overall success of your business. Your employees are vital to your success, so make them feel valued. Review Your Goals. Watch for signs of poor team member communication also ask you engage with your staff.

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