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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. Without funding most tech startups will die. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. They’re betting on you.

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Early Growth Financial Services Welcomes New Tax Director

Early Growth Financial Services

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 26, 2015 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an accounting and financial services firm that specializes in providing a range of outsourced financial support to early-stage companies, announces the hiring of Andy Kapur to head its Tax Practice. Originally published on PRWeb.

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Early Growth Financial Services Now Offering Valuation Services

Early Growth Financial Services

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 29, 2013 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), a Silicon Valley-based accounting and finance support firm with 175+ active venture-backed companies, is now offering valuation services.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a pure startup and haven’t raised any money – you might change the life of every person you hire. I always encourage people to allocate a few extra stock options to those that join super early when your company is risky and they just believed in you. Sure, you can get away with less, but why?

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Sarbanes Oxley has made it impossible to go public reducing financial capital for start-ups and the FASB rules on stock options have made it harder to attract human capital to start-ups. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Our patent laws have been weakened reducing the value of intellectual capital. Bring your questions.

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Should this startup exist? Converting 5W’s into existential justification

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Early on it’s easy to hire, because it’s cool and fun to join a startup, and assuming you’ve hired great talent, those people never have trouble finding another job if they have to, even in a down economy. Not for the stock options — you won’t be doling out 1% of the company to anyone by then.