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6 Myths On Starting A New Business That Can Kill You

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to business owners, and an occasional angel investor, my job is to separate the actual challenges from the common misconceptions that distract many promising entrepreneurs while building the leadership team required for your solution, marketing, and finance success. Partner with experts who share the risk.

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How to Raise More Money for Your Nonprofit

The Startup Magazine

After all, nonprofits have operational expenses such as rent, energy bills, and salaries. If nonprofits want to attract top executives, then they must also pay competitive salaries and need the nonprofit fundraising to support it. However, nonprofits can’t generate revenue through conventional means due to their nature.

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In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life

Steve Blank

Pre-pandemic these coffees were usually about what startup to join or how to find product/market fit. News sources for Digital Health and Life Sciences are different from software/hardware blogs such as Hacker News, TechCrunch, etc. A Healthy Dose – Bessemer Partners Podcast. Fast Company and Forbes. Get to know who they are.

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A step-by-step guide to HR outsourcing

The Startup Magazine

Outsourcing talent acquisition efforts to external service providers like SOURCEitHR Payroll & HR Outsourcing Partner In UAE makes sense because executing all of these processes in-house can divert attention away from your key expertise. An HR manager’s starting salary in the United States is roughly $90,000 plus benefits.

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The evolution of early stage investing in the UK

The Equity Kicker

We see this all the time at Forward Partners where we invest right from the idea stage and most of the companies get a first version of their product live for less than £30k (that generally includes founder salaries and time spent doing customer research). Forward Partners and Crowdcube are both attacking elements of these problems.

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Beware of Ballers on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

It surprises me that anybody would buy a car without this data because as most people know MSRP on cars is mostly an irrelevant data point used for marketing purposes. “Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. But I digress. While back at the office the other 98% of the staff actually have to build stuff.

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Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

You will build out features or expend to platforms — often before you have enough market feedback to warrant it. My analogy was that there are markets where it’s relatively easier to raise capital and therefore you should take a little bit more but you should create a budget where you only spend 70% of what you raise on a pace of 18 months.