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10 Strategies To Avoid Bad Risks In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Trying to save money by recruiting family members, or hiring only interns, is a bad risk. Opportunity and revenue projections based on deep market and customer analysis are a smarter risk. Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth.

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8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation. Every startup should have at least a couple of outside advisors who are not major investors or family members, anxious to talk to new investors and key new hires.

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8 Red Flags To Evaluate Before Pledging To A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation. Every startup should have at least a couple of outside advisors who are not major investors or family members, anxious to talk to new investors and key new hires.

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What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. So, who benefits the most from work from home jobs and diversity hiring programs?

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10 Manageable Risks That An Entrepreneur Should Take

Startup Professionals Musings

Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Trying to save money by recruiting family members, or hiring only interns, is a bad risk. Opportunity and revenue projections based on deep market and customer analysis are a smarter risk. Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth.

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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. In that initial growth phase, running out of stock can be detrimental and slow down the momentum of your business growth.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. So your Q1 results will be $180,000 less profitable than if you hadn’t hired them. Hiring more people isn’t always the right answer.

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