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10 Strategies To Avoid Bad Risks In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Great team members may take more time to find, and cost you stock options, but a qualified and highly motivated team that stretches your budget is a good calculated risk. Don’t rely on conservative forecasts to reduce risk. Recruit the best team members and provide incentives. Build your business with minimum outside funding.

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10 Manageable Risks That An Entrepreneur Should Take

Startup Professionals Musings

Great team members may take more time to find, and cost you stock options, but a qualified and highly motivated team that stretches your budget is a good calculated risk. Don’t rely on conservative forecasts to reduce risk. Recruit the best team members and provide incentives. Build your business with minimum outside funding.

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10 Calculated Risks That Lead To Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Great team members may take more time to find, and cost you stock options, but a qualified and highly motivated team that stretches your budget is a good calculated risk. Don’t rely on conservative forecasts to reduce risk. Recruit the best team members and provide incentives. Build your business with minimum outside funding.

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10 Strategies To Isolate Smart Risks In A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Great team members may take more time to find, and cost you stock options, but a qualified and highly motivated team that stretches your budget is a good calculated risk. Don’t rely on conservative forecasts to reduce risk. Recruit the best team members and provide incentives. Build your business with minimum outside funding.

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10 Strategies To Minimize The Perils Of A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Great team members may take more time to find, and cost you stock options, but a qualified and highly motivated team that stretches your budget is a good calculated risk. Don’t rely on conservative forecasts to reduce risk. Recruit the best team members and provide incentives. Build your business with minimum outside funding.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

Our sales forecasts were revised downward – many times. We do hand out stock options. Our customers were generally happy but they were pushing us hard for promised features. Our business development discussions took longer than planned. Reporters were no longer interested in talking about B2B eCommerce.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc.

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