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4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

Of course, you want to make sure that your employees are also feeling financially secure. Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save.

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Should you raise on convertible notes or do an equity round?

Hippoland

A reader named Turner Dean recently asked me whether it’s better to raise seed money on convertible notes or straight-up equity. In general, I’m a big fan of convertible notes or convertible securities for seed stage founders. Flexibility With an equity round, there’s a specific amount of money you are raising.

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Want $50k in Seed Funding? Apply now.

ReadWriteStart

And yes, each of the five selected will receive $50k, along with free Internet hosting services, accounting and legal services, and intensive hands-on mentoring for 12 weeks. The $50k seed money isn't a grant, but an equity investment by Capital Innovators. Norse-Corp.com , a real-time Internet security vendor.

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Entrepreneurs: The Funding Landscape Has Changed.

Berkonomics

The great majority of investors who did invest in “idea stage” businesses, lost fortunes when the Internet “bubble” burst at the beginning of the last decade. Independent Third Parties: This area for securing business loans has witnessed the greatest degree of change, primarily due to removal of communication barriers using the Internet.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

The only thing I wouldn’t do is to post it on the internet. link] Security. ???????? ????????? ???????. ??????? ???? ?????????? ? ???????????. ????? ????????????. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? link] Marco. link] Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea… « Paul M. Watson. [.]

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Despite what some vendors may say, all languages scale, and its hard to argue that one language is fundamentally less secure than another. Seed money gets invested on something that shouldn’t be in use, rather than something provided by an off-the-shelf framework which won’t tie the business to a particular agency.