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4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. People still spend money in the lean times — in fact they are much more likely to spend money on small luxury items when they are holding off on big purchases.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Will there be a lecture on getting seed money in a post crisis world? » Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "499,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] Thanks Steve! The rest is worth reading as well. steve Am I a Founder?

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A Quality Benchmark for Accelerators: The Global Accelerator Network

Feld Thoughts

As with everything new that grows quickly, it’s a chaotic system with lots of innovation, creative destruction, and rapid change and learning that – if done well – is a great example of the power of the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship. We also review their leadership and mentor pool to ensure value.

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Busted or Confirmed? 3 Common Myths About Starting A Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Myth #2: You need a lot of money to start. Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet. What other myths about starting a business do you believe hold people back?