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When Is the Right Time to Pay Yourself a Salary?

Up and Running

Though that level of restraint may mean living quite “lean” in your personal life for a while, doing so provides an opportunity to establish solid footing for your business as early as possible, so that you have at least one year to learn from the trends and sales cycles that will emerge once you’re past “break even.”

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. As you rightly pointed out, though most of us as entrepreneurs are aware of these concepts, we don't dig deep, drill down and present the numbers / issues / solutions to the board and / or investors. SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world?

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

After Goldman, ran startup Gadgetoff, which brought together inventors and entrepreneurs. LYONS: You have to encourage companies to pay attention to these entrepreneurs. Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development. 2-18 month sales cycle. The public markets are forecasting that.

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A practical guide to a first board meeting: Advice from the pros

This is going to be BIG.

I talked over the entrepreneurs. You have to let the entrepreneurs and management team operate the business and make all the key decisions. Each board pack should have the history of performance over the past year, a comparison of performance relative to plan and your forecasts going forward. I wasn't trying to be a jerk.